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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Our pictures (and yours!) from the communities we work with throughout Indonesia (Sumba, Flores, Sulawesi. Bali and more). Includes ceremonial, ritual and day…
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Indonesia
Bali
Ritual
Thread
Spirituality
Husband
Life
Flowers
Spiritual
This photo was taken in 1998 when Threads of Life was just beginning its work. This husband and wife from the Meo caste provided support to the late spiritual leader Tnesi Iba Usboko who died in 2020.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Traditional Dresses
Older Women
Families
Parents
Weaving
Textiles
Homes
How To Wear
Older women usually wear traditional dress when going to market in Timor. Initially, this was how Threads of Life found weavers to begin to work with – we spotted amazing textiles and chatted with them and ended up in their homes talking about their families and weaving.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
End Of The World
Carpet
Let It Be
Coops
Highlands
Trust
Mountain
Traditional
Why are the Sekomandi cloths so dear to our heart? Let us tell you a story. In May of 1999, Threads of Life staff member I Made Maduarta (Pung) set off for the Karataun highlands in search of traditional sekomandi weavers. “It was like the end of the world,” said Pung. Since that first trip, Pung has returned to Karataun every year, penetrating one day’s ride farther up the mountain tracks. Slowly, they have built trust with local weavers, and have helped to establish weavers’ coops.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Then And Now
Regional
Bali
Phones
Community
Social Media
People
In 2020 (and now 2021) it was impossible for us to make our annual visits to our weaving community partners. Many have put strict regional quarantines in place in order to protect their people from COVID. Some communities are are still able to talk with us via social media or phones, others have been unreachable. Perhaps they've been unable to get into an area with phone signal with quarantines in place or have been unable to get phone credit.
Threads of Life Textiles
Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Silver
Food
Photos
Instagram
Pictures
Essen
Meals
Heirloom crops and silver designating nobility in Boti, Timor.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Rivers
River
Lakes
Crossing one of the 64 rivers en route to the weavers' village we partner with in Sulawesi.
Threads of Life Textiles
Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Field Notes
Life Words
Bird Feeders
Globe
Website
Outdoor Decor
Speech Balloon
Threads of Life Textiles
Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Textile Arts Center
Lace Skirt
Sequin Skirt
Cultural Identity
Ikat Pattern
Married Men
Single Men
Everyday Dresses
Sailors
Threads of Life Textiles
Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Traditional House
Faces Band
Dutch Colonial
Types Of Craft
Textile Art
Ikat
Black Stripes
Relationships
The symbolic visual language of Toraja is present in every type of craft, whether etched into the wood of traditional houses or woven into their spectacular textiles. Each motif is defined by a long tradition, and each element in the design carries a culturally symbolic meaning. These patterns comprise a sophisticated variety of geometric, curvilinear and pictorial forms that express the important relationships to the ancestors, society and the earth.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Saint Laurent
Arm Stretches
Shoulder Sling
Seafarer
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Cash Crop
Forest Garden
Dyes
Landscapes
Gardens
Chocolate
Coffee
Building
Plants
In landscapes that have changed from subsistence agroforestry systems (that once provided food, medicines, fibers and dyes, and materials for building, toolmaking and rituals), into commodity-based forest gardens (that produce coffee, chocolate, cloves, cashews, candlenut, and other cash crops), we have been working to establish cultivation of formerly wild-crafted dye plants.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Importance Of Respect
Well Images
Sustainable Clothing Brands
Best Wear
Online Clothing Stores
Textile Design
How To Introduce Yourself
Sustainability
We live in a world that knows no boundaries. But for the indigenous people of Indonesia, boundaries are always potent invitations to see ourselves in new ways and change the ways we relate to the human and more-than-human world. Where the textile arts remain vital, they are among the primary expressions of this worldview.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Ancient Myths
Tie Dye Techniques
Recent Events
Hand Weaving
Control Issues
Hair Styles
Cotton
Strands
Indonesian weavers are famous for a tie-dye technique called ikat, meaning ’’to tie a knot.’’ The weaver stretches her warp or weft on a wooden frame and ties strands of palm leaf or plastic raffia around small bundles of threads. After hours of tying, the bindings begin to form patterns: stylized plants and animals, motifs declaring clan and status, pictures and words that illustrate ancient myths and recent events.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Valance Curtains
Masters
Knots
Wrapping
Creativity
Bright
Create
In West Timor, some weavers wrap knots of bright thread around the warps between passes of the weft, a technique called buna. A buna garment can take over a year to complete, and only certain communities take the time to make large buna designs. Buna masters carefully hide the ends of each wrapping, making the textile identical on front and back. The Timorese create electrifying buna patterns of explosive creativity.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Put On
Dance
Note
Jeans
Dancing
Denim
Denim Pants
Denim Jeans
Putting on bells for traditional dance in Flores - very trendy, note the bells being sewn onto jeans as backing.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
E Textiles
Instagram Posts
Pattern
Spinning
Weaving a traditional handspun natural dyed Kwatek Nai Rua in Lembata.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Remote
Interior Decorating
Sweet Home
Thank you @eskayel! "I have always loved the photos from the village in Sumba where my designs were first turned into Indigo Ikat weavings. The collaboration was made possible by @threadsoflifebali an organization dedicated to sustaining the textile arts of Indonesia. Thinking of them now as they have had to close their shop and are putting many of their amazing textiles online for purchase so they can continue to support the weavers."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Archipelago
Island Life
Palm
Conversation
Interview
Hand Prints
Selling betelnut in Sumba.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Small Island
People Illustration
Folk
While Rai Jua is a small island located to the west of Savu, it has great cultural importance to the people of Savu as they believe that their ancestors originated from Rai Jua before Savu existed.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Little Island
Blanket
Islands
Rain
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Sustainable Fashion
Indigo
Old Things
Weave
Bags
Beautiful
The old and the new. The beautiful and unusual two-part indigo woman's sarong called Ei Pudi Wo Datu from Rai Jua.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Javanese
Extinct
Preserves
Hand Drawn
How To Draw Hands
Coast
Survival
Tuban, a small rural province in east Java, is one of the last remaining pockets where traditional, hand-drawn batik coloured with natural dyes still survives. Tuban’s rare village-based artistic production has often been passed over. Tuban batik preserves the visual elements of rural Javanese culture which were once widespread but are now almost entirely extinct.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Cotton Plant
Food Dye
Grown Women
International Trade
Advent
Cloths
Wax
Before Indian and European trade brought commercial cotton cloths, Javanese women grew cotton plants, spun the thread by hand and drew batik designs in molten wax. International trade brought to batik production wax-ready fabrics and the dizzying array of colours and patterns it is now known for, but the advent of cheaper, factory-made batik has resulted in an almost total loss of traditional techniques. By the 20th century, natural dye recipes & handwoven fabrics had nearly vanished from Java.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Wealth
Mystic
The Past
Women Wear
Bring It On
Patterns
The Originals
The sarita is a sacred Torajan cloth made with wax resist-dyed patterns. Sarita cloths are believed to be mystical in origin and are indicative of high status, bringing wealth to the family that owns them. In the past, both Toraja men and women wore the #sarita as a hip wrap; this is the first time this type of cloth has been produced in many decades among the Karutaun To Mangki.
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Threads of Life Around Indonesia
Palms
Forests
Rattan
Challenges
Crafts
Design
Wicker
Palmas
The forests of East Kalimantan hold Indonesia`s last wild rattan palms.