Pottery is one of the most primordial arts that combine design and function. It comes from a variety shapes and decorative techniques and a touch of creativity and art works. The designs were usually geometric with stylized motif, later pottery became more functional.Behind the beautiful, refreshing environment, the residents of Barangay Cagbang in Miag-ao have another thing to be proudly share. Barangay Cagbang is well-known of it's clay-made stove (kalan), cooking pots (dabahan) and water jars (banga). The most common earthenware they produce are the kuron (a round bottomed, wide-mouthed native cooking pot), kalan (an earthen stove), paso (plant pot) and banga (used exclusively for storing drinking water). These products are usually being sold in local market.
Earthenware is made of clay and they get this in open fields near river. The materials used in manufacturing these clay products are clay, fine sand, red soil and the proper proportion of water. They mixed it manually. The molding (paghulma) process, the potters cautiously paddles using a pamikpik or wooden paddle; the thin layer of clay the kuron or clay pot which makes it more durable and perfect for storing and cooking at the same time. The freshly molded earthenware is kept for daysunder the lower part of their houses or hut which also serve as their working area to keep them away from the direct rays of the sun. The pagpagba or firing is the last phase. This still uses the old practice of pagpagba, semi-bonfire type which takes only about one hour or two to cook earthenwares.
Out of their rich natural environment, there are still things we can discover and produce. These are truly Filipino products we must introduce and be proud of. Foreigners are amazed with their unique products made by people living in that particular area where they combine all their stocks and sold it by volume to other parts of Iloilo City.by: Melgray Escarrilla
Adelyn Marie Nacanaynay
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