What is exciting about the Barong is its ability to adapt to different kinds of fabric, thus widening its design applications and functions.

Jusi – made from 100% natural Raw Silk produced by the silkworm. These thinner-than-hair strands, surprisingly, are strong enough to be processed and woven in specialized textile mills.

Piña (Pineapple) – made from the leaves of a special variety of Pineapple grown the Visayas region. The strands from these Pineapple leaves are scraped by hand, washed, dried, tied from end to end and finally woven a yarn at a time by skilled weavers in generations-old handlooms. The whole process is so laborious that, in the end, a yard of Pure Piña cloth – measuring only a standard 30" wide – is priced in the market at 8 times the price of Jusi.

Piña Silk (Pineapple/Silk) – made of 50% Pineapple fiber and 50% Raw Silk. Often, it is difficult to distinguish from Pure Piña, although it is priced substantially lower.

Linen – made from the Flax fiber, which originated in ancient Egypt. It is the strongest of the vegetable fibers and has 2-3 times the strength of cotton. Some people frown upon Linen as it easily gets wrinkled, unaware that this characteristic is part of its innate beauty, not to mention the fact that the wrinkle is what makes it cool to the skin. Despite this, it presses easily under high setting of ordinary dry flat iron.

Ramie – made from 100% Ramie, a plant fiber also known as China grass, which is soft, lustrous but slightly coarser than Flax (Linen); in fact, one is often mistaken for the other. Like Linen, Ramie wrinkles easily, and the similarities in the properties of Ramie and Linen make them blend quite perfectly.

Polyester – made from a manufactured fiber derived from petroleum, it is the best wash-and-wear fiber. It is strong, quick drying, and has high resistance to stretch, shrinkage, abrasion, wrinkle and crease.