Sidemen Village - Pelangi Workshop Songket & Ikat weaving - Tissage Songket et ikat
AndiArt - La Paz, Bolivia Fondée en 2000 par la designer textile française Véronique Rolland Valdès, AndiArt est spécialisée dans la décoration intérieure. La designer conçoit des textiles grands formats (tapis, moquettes, rideaux, plaids) qu'elle fait tisser par des artisans boliviens. Véronique Valdès chine aussi les textiles vintage, tapis, ponchos et tout vetement traditionnel de Bolivie, qu'elle restaure ou recycle en coussins, sacs et pochettes Established in 2000 by French designer Veronique Valdes, AndiArt specializes in home decoration. Valdes designs textiles such as carpets, curtains and bed throws that are then handwoven in Bolivia. Valdes also collects vintage frazadas (Bolivian throws and carpets) and vintage traditional garments she either restores or transforms into cushions, tote bags and small purses. She is measuring a frazada that will be transformed into a new set of cushions.
Tenganan village, Bali - Geringsing (double ikat) Bali's rarest textilesRembat at work preparing the cotton : Rolling the flattened cotton on a wooden stick for spinning. Rembat is about 95 years old and the only living man in Tenganan who still knows the whole double-ikat process. He learned weaving from his mother when he needed to make his own clothing after the Japanese invaded the island. After the invasion, everything was rare and expensive.
