A double ikat weaver at her loom

TEXT AND PICTURES BY GEOFF VIVIAN

Tenganan in southeast Bali is one of the villages that preserves a pre-Hindu “Bali Aga” culture that may be thousands of years old.

These are Indonesia’s rarest textiles, produced in just one Bali village.

A feature of this is the double-ikat weaving, requiring warp and weft threads to be meticulously tie died before the weaver puts them together.

Tenganan is the only place in Indonesia that still produces double ikat, and in this story I explain how you can get to Tenganan and visit a double ikat weaver.

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