Yabing Masalon Dulo
Fu Yabing Masalon Dulo is a Filipino textile master weaver and dyer. She is credited with preserving the Blaan tradition mabal tabih art of ikat weaving and dying. She is one of two surviving master designers left of the mabal tabih art of the indigenous Blaan people of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines.
She was given the National Living Treasures Award by the Philippines through the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.Biography
Fu Yabing was born on August 8, 1914, in Polomolok, South Cotabato. She resides on Mount Matutum. Fu Yabing began weaving at age 14. Two of her tabih are considered masterpieces. One of these is displayed in the Philippine National Museum.
To preserve the Blaan weaving tradition, Fu Yabing taught the craft of tabih to her only daughter Lamina Dulo Gulili and women in her community.
She retired from weaving in 2018 after figuring in a motorcycle accident.
