Here is another episode of the Ifugao Rice Cultural Museum.
Spindle Bob (tobayan)
‘Linod di mun-abol…’
“Linod.” Millenial kids used to play that when they were kids and that’s the first thing to come in mind at
first glance of this apparatus, not sure if you could also see the resemblance though.
Our forefathers call it ‘tobayan.’ It was the only apparatus that was used to traditionally make a yarn. It
is actually made with two (2) pieces of wood, the libong (cone-shaped) with its based facing upward and
the tobayan proper (shaft or stick) that passes though the libong from its lower end. From the lower
end, the shaft provides a small flattened knob that holds the libong. And, from the libong, the stick
becomes thinner until the summit while the lower end likewise decreases in thickness thus ending with
an obtuse point making it easily to spin. Then the left hand would just hold the cotton and spin the
tobayan with the right hand to eventually make a yarn to be woven by the mun-abol (weaver).