The Cepuk and Kawis textiles of Nusa Penida
A field trip across the narrow strait from Bali to Nusa Penida gave us the chance to learn more about ...
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Finding Balance and Preserving Harmony through Rituals
In all matters of traditional life, communities seek to preserve balance and harmony with the natural world and the ancestral ...
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Small Steps Back Towards Helping Weavers
— Transcribed by Ni Made Desa Purwani (Tutut) With good sales from the Threads of Life’s online shop over recent ...
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Finding Ways to Meet the Weavers in 2021
January 2021 has continued 2020’s intensity for our weaver communities around Indonesia as they deal not only with the economic ...
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Batik in Times of Covid
In Indonesia, very little is accomplished unless it is done face-to-face, which is clearly hard to achieve during this Coronavirus ...
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Restoring Balance
In traditional communities all across Indonesia, epidemics or disasters are seen as an imbalance of life on the earth and ...
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Ritual Life and Livelihoods in Conflict on Savu
On this end of the year trip to Savu we intended to focus on deepening our understanding of the construction ...
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Mud Dyeing in Sumba: Peer to Peer Learning
During this trip to East Sumba we had the fascinating opportunity to observe the traditional mud dyeing process. We joined ...
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Towards a Sustainable Yellow Dye
The recipe used for making a yellow-brown natural dye for traditional batiks in central Java is known as soga. Soga ...
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