Accessories from Bulacan that can Help you Level up you Fashion Game

By: Summer Andrea Beatriz J. Ocoma

Bulacan is famed for its heroes, beautiful women, innovative cooperatives, and small and medium-sized industries. It's also noted for its outstanding artistry in the creation of jewelry, leather crafts, buntal hats, and other more.

Let's get right to the point. Here are some Bulacan accessories that will help you spice your outfits.

Jewelries

In Bulacan, jewelry making is concentrated in the municipality of Meycauayan. Meycauayan, Bulacan has long been known as the Jewelry Capital of the Philippines due to its availability of small, cottage-style businesses producing precious metal jewelry such as gold and precious and semi-precious stones such as lab grown diamonds, colorful gemstones, and pearls.

Precious metal jewelry made of gold is the major product of the Philippines. Silver jewelry comprise a smaller portion of the business but is steadily increasing.

Unworked or worked pearls, cut and polished diamonds, and colorful gemstones such as emerald, rubies, and sapphires in loose form are examples of pearls, precious stones, and semi-precious stones. They vary in size, color, cut, clarity, and luster, just like pearls. Diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and pearls are examples of precious stones. All other gemstones are classified as semi-precious.

Buntal Hats

The buntal hat weaving industry began in Baliwag, Bulacan way back during pre-war years. The introduction of the hat weaving industry turned half of the hat weavers in Baliwag and neighboring warriors to the making of buntal hats instead of bamboo hats. The Buntal hat is a traditional straw hat from the Philippines woven from fibers extracted from the petioles of buri palm leaves.

They also held "Buntal Festivals," which featured a job fair, painting contest,

concerts, buntal hat santacruzan, street dance, the search for Lakambini ng Baliwag, and exhibits of goods made from woven buntal fibers.

Leather Crafts

Bulacan's leather crafting industry is particularly promising for a range of bags, wallets, leather shoes, and small leather accessory items. Waste leather scrapes from export assembly firms in free trade zones have inspired local tailors to create cleverly fashioned new goods.

The tanning industry is one of Bulacan Province's largest employment.

The tanning industry was initially established in the Philippines in 1903, at Meycauayan, Bulacan. It was thought that Chinese craftsmen developed the old method of tanning leather in the province. Meycauayan is home to the majority of these businesses, making it the Philippines' tanning capital. Not only is Meycauayan close to raw materials, but it is also close to the finished leather market, which includes footwear in Marikina, leather goods in Metro Manila and suburbs, and the export processing area in Bataan.