Welcome to The Loom
On a loom, no single thread makes the cloth. It takes hundreds, crossing over and under one another, to make something both beautiful and long-lasting.
Our stories work the same way. Each one is a thread, shaped by where it began and the hands that brought it here. Woven together, they become Filipino America, still growing with every story we add.
Weaving the history of Filipino America
Before I moved here, people kept asking if there were even Filipinos in Portland. There are, and there have been since a galleon wrecked on the Oregon coast in 1693.

