Handbound Sketchbook Series: “Letters to Childhood”
Letters to Childhood is a small first-edition collaboration between Coleela Bindery and watercolor artist George Rosales. Each sketchbook features a…
Finding Clarity Through the SILBI Journey
I started my incubation journey with the Social Innovation Laboratory and Business Inclusion (SILBI) in 2024, and it has been…
Motherland, Motherboard
This artwork was my response to the Ibagiw Creative Festival 2025 theme, “Traditions Rooted, Futures Routed.” It is available as…
When the Rains Fell, We Held
A stitched tribute to those affected by Crising, Dante, and Emong In the last two weeks of July 2025, three…
Bulul 2024 – A Textile Offering
Bulul is a 2024 textile piece composed, as usual, of a patchwork of found fabrics, thread, purely hand embroidery, and…
A Week of Rain, A Pot of Flowers
A spontaneous textile piece stitched through gray skies, quiet joy, and little voices in the background. “Sun & Flowers” began…
About Coleela
Coleela is a small creative studio that celebrates the handmade, the slow, and the slightly off-center (in the best way)….
Meet Lenny
The Hands Behind Coleela I’m Lenny Onangey Mendoza, a bookbinder and textile artist who took the long way from a…
The Bay-an Journal: A Small Tribute in Seven Copies
There are artists whose work speaks, and there are those whose life becomes part of the story of a place….