Friday, November 23, 2007

2007 Iloilo Kawayan Market Week



   


Celebrate Kawayan Week

Fashion show of dresses made of bamboo.

The Department of Trade and Industry, provincial and city governments of Iloilo, DOST, TESDA, DENR, School of Technology-UP Visayas, Municipal Government of Maasin and WESVARRDEC open the doors to the fourth bamboo resource and fashion fairs.

The 2007 Iloilo Kawayan Market Week, a fair that will place the focus firmly on bamboo and hablon design that hope to bring out the ‘must have’ urge in every buyer.

The Bamboo Resource Fair showcases furniture and designs in the limelight, make new contacts and reach a new, international public.

The event has proved to be the ideal showroom for high-end bamboo furniture.

The Iloilo Kawayan Market Week is a promotional event with government agencies and private sector working as partners and sharing a common interest of promoting the sale and recognition of bamboo furniture, related bamboo furnishing products and hablon fabric.

The events’ exhibitors represent more the 80% of Ilonggo bamboo furniture and handloom producers, which through their annual participation obtain a large number of advertising mileages and strengthen their competitiveness.

The event is acknowledged as an effective platform not only to tap into the national furniture market but also to reach out to the rest of the world.

Iloilo, known to many as the design capital of the region, is a key point on the national design map.

This will be a strong contributory factor in positioning the Iloilo Kawayan Market Week: Furniture and Fashion Fairs as emerging of the country’s leading design fairs in the coming years.

As home to many of the region’s most promising and popular furniture and fashion fairs, Iloilo has long since established itself as a design capital.

source: http://thedailyguardian.com/





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