RIZAL, Kalinga (PIA) -- The province’s silk weaving industry is shaping-up with the growing operation of Kalinga State University’s (KSU) Silk Innovation Center here.

A joint venture of DOST-Philippine Textile Research Institute and KSU, the center was launched on  April 29, 2022 under KSU’s sericulture project aimed at creating new income opportunities for rural communities.

It  has started producing silk threads ready to be tapped as raw material source to local weavers.  

Weaving is one of  the province's booming industries.  Kalinga  registered the highest number of the country’s weavers at 21 percent.  

Silk  which used to be an  imported material is now a local resource from the 10-hectare facility of mulberry farm and silk worm cages at KSU.

Aside from the trade benefit,  the silk center looms as favourite tourist attraction being a new and rare sight to people.    

The silk filature facility here is among the country’s 11 silk centers and the  first in North Luzon.(JDP/LL-PIA CAR, Kalinga)