Rose Ann Wangdali is a weaver’s daughter. She went to school with the earnings of her mother as a weaver in one of the local firms in Sagada. She finished Accountancy and went home to work with a local cooperative in Sagada while she started her own family. In 2005, she saw the potentials for local handicrafts in a tourist destination like their place, Sagada. Being familiar with weaving since childhood, she established her weaving firm coming up with unconventional design of bags for working women. She went around second hand (ukay – ukay) stores to collect trendy bags that would serve as her design inspirations for her woven bags. In time, Rose’s woven products breathed new life into a moribund weaving industry. Rose’s bag designs and colour combinations made local women fall in love with woven bags-again. (Photo: Rose Ann Wangdali and Juliet P. Lucas).