Magdalena Gamayo (born August 13, 1924)[1] is a Filipino weaver who is a lead-practitioner of the Ilocano tradition of pinagabel.
[2] Magdalena Gamayo, a native of the cotton farming Barangay of Lumbaan-Bicbica, Pinili, Ilocos Norte,[3] learned the Ilocano weaving tradition of making inabel from her aunt at age 16.
She taught herself on how to execute the traditional patterns of binakol, inuritan (geometric design), kusikos (orange-like spiral forms), and sinan-sabong (flowers).
[5] Her father bought her first loom, made by a local craftsman using sag'gat hardwood.
In late 2016, the House of Inabel was inaugurated enabling Gamayo to further promote pinagabel.