#they say 'the artform is dead which nestles neatly into my worldview and makes me soo sad'

[confinesofmy]

just got insanely mad at a white tiktoker for claiming that filipino gold filigree belts are a completely lost art due to colonization and we don't know how they were made and no one makes them anymore and it's so so sad. it's loop-in-loop chains. it's complex loop-in-loop chains. there are still filipinos who weave. there are still filipinos who work with gold. stop telling people these artforms are dead, they're not dead. you can't just make stuff up. you need to read the associated articles and watch the associated talks or stay quiet unless you have relevant personal experience, which you don't. oh my god.