Saturday, June 5, 2010

Threads of Life, Indonesian Textile Arts Center 2






Woven textiles are made with natural cotton threads that have had designs "tied" onto the cotton using a raffia-type material (far right). The cotton threads are then dyed to achieve the desired colors (middle blue panel). The hand-tied raffia is removed and the design appears (far left). These cotton threads are then hand woven on a loom (middle picture) into the final product (below).