Rizal Piña Barong Archive Sample set here on coated cloth

set here on coated cloth rather than formal silk

holding its shape through the warmest day

hand-set pearl and crystal are worked into the scrollwork — quiet dimension on a pale ground

Ruffled collar and wrist cuffs

Rizal Piña Barong Archive Sample set here on coated clothFormality that doesn't announce itself. The Rizal is cut from pia the rarest of the barong cloths, kept for the occasions that ask for it. The fiber is drawn from the pineapple leaf by hand, knotted into a thread fine enough to see through, then woven into a cloth that holds light rather than returns it. Lined throughout, so it reads either way over an undershirt or on its own. Hand dyed to a cool aquamarine, it carries the slight irregularity that