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Pamela

http://www.tribaltextiles.info
on-line tribal textiles resource

Dear Pamela,

I only just discovered your posting with the Fowler videos made by Roy Hamilton c.s. that Chris Reid pointed out to you. Very beautiful indeed, and moving too. I find the one on Serawak hard to watch, as the social decay is so evident. It makes us so painfully aware of what we are losing. Same actually for the one shot in Ndona. The old people are dying before they have been able to pass on the patterns. Now the weaver has to rely on her mother instructing her in her dreams - poignant. And then there is the lady in Lautem, Timor Leste, with just a few shreds of what the ancestors made to serve as a mnemonic. Sad, but highly informative, and a reminder that we should enjoy what is left before it is all gone.

Cheers (if that helps),
Peter

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Peter ten Hoopen
www.ikat.us

PUSAKA COLLECTION: ONLINE MUSEUM OF TRADITIONAL INDONESIAN IKAT TEXTILES