Calado is a traditional embroidery art from the Philippines that has been passed down through generations. It involves intricate hand embroidery using pineapple fibers and was especially practiced in Taal, Batangas. This art form tells about the early Filipinos' love for culture and arts.
The color wheel is used to organize hues and consists of 12 color sections. The primary colors of red, yellow and blue are the purest colors and form a triangle. Secondary colors of orange, green and violet are formed by mixing primaries and are duller. Tertiary colors are formed by mixing a primary with a secondary color.
4. Calado (callado)- is a traditional of whitework
embroidery from the Philippines.
- an intricate, well- embossed hand embroidery
using mature leaf fibers from pineapples.
- Taal, Batangas boasts of a long tradition of
hand embroidery
5. This art of calado (callado) making has
been one of the most treasured skills of
early Filipinos.
It is also one legacy from the past that
tells about their love for arts and culture.
7. * The color wheel is a means of organizing the
colors in the spectrum.
* The color wheel consists of 12 sections, each
containing one hue.
* A hue is a name of a color on the color wheel.
9. * The primary colors are red, yellow and blue and are the
purest and most intense of all the colors.
* The intensity of a color is the brightness or dullness of a
color.
* They form a triangle on the color wheel and are colors that
cannot be mixed from any other colors. These are the only
colors that can be found in nature.
11. * The secondary colors are orange, green and violet and are
duller than the primaries because they have been mixed
together.
* They form a triangle on the color wheel and are colors that
are mixed from the primary colors.
*Red + yellow=orange
Blue + yellow= green
Red + blue= violet
13. * The Intermediate (Tertiary) Colors
* These colors are yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-
violet, red-orange, red-violet
and are even duller than the secondary colors because the primary
has been mixed with a secondary.
* These 6 colors are formed by mixing a primary and a secondary
color.
14. * Primary + Secondary = Tertiary
yellow + orange=yellow-orange
yellow + green = yellow-green
blue + green =blue-green
blue + violet = blue-violet
red + violet =red-violet
red + orange = red-orange