Honorific Prefix: | Bai |
Estelita Bantilan | |
Birth Name: | Labnai Tumndan |
Birth Date: | 17 October 1940 |
Nationality: | Filipino |
Known For: | Textile |
Style: | Blaan traditional weaving |
Bai Estelita Tumandan Bantilan (born Labnai Tumndan; October 17, 1940) is a Filipino textile weaver from the municipality of Malapatan, Sarangani. She is credited with creating "some of the biggest, most subtly beautiful mats to be seen anywhere in Southeast Asia."[1] She was given the National Living Treasure Award by the Philippines through the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2016.
Bantilan opened a mat weaving center in Malapatan to preserve and promote the tradition of Blaan weaving.[2]