Creating more opportunities for people in his town and helping preserve Filipino traditional crafts are his goals as a Capiz shell furniture artisan. CDNDigital
But, 30, from Argao, Cebu, continues to live his passion of paying homage to the past.
Artisan Mamalias creates his handcrafted product with capiz shell and wood. “I’m designing furniture pieces using these two main materials.”During his high school and college days, Mamalias worked as part-time helper in their family-owned furniture shop in Barangay Mandilikit in Argao together with his father and some local woodworkers.
During his graduating year as a Mechanical Engineering student, he started to post their products on social media and gained clients’ attention, both local and international.
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