Time shapes tradition & familiarity
Across generations in weaving communities, naturally dyed traditional textiles and crafts live and breathe through daily use, rituals, and ceremonies. As they find new places and become part of others’ daily use and rituals, the values embodied by these textiles and crafts are maintained, encouraging their survival in the present and the future.
6-Part Documentary Series
Tradition Keepers
Threads of Life and Asa Film's Tradition Keepers documentaries take us to the indigenous communities Threads of Life works with across Indonesia to tell stories of personal challenge and cultural survival that go beneath the surface of the archipelago's textile arts into a world of rituals and ancestors, cosmology and mythology, social and ecological wisdom. Episodes tell the life stories of those working to maintain their textile arts, showing the complexity of their work, placing their art within a living culture, and showing the challenges they face passing on their knowledge.
Threads of Life actively encourages weaving communities to revive and maintain endangered techniques of weaving and natural dyeing. We provide economic and technical support while weavers research and rediscover local practices.
