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Textile Cultural tradition and their Preservation, Promotion and development

By: Rosalia M Soares

Facts

• Many collection of the National collection have

been lost, stolen, sold and destroyed during the time of conflict;

• Tais plays a significant role in the live of a

Timorese;

• Weaving is one of the skill of the women in rural

areas.

• bjectives
• To promote an inclusive and empowered society,

where the cultural traditions may be preserved, documented, promoted and protected

• To facilitate the linkage and the networking of civil

society organizations, local authorities and private

• rganizations (such as weaver cooperatives) from

Timor Leste in facing the issue of preservation, promotion and education around their shared and endangered cultural heritages;

• To promote and support the production of traditional

textiles in Timor Leste as a sustainable and viable way to improve livelihoods through operations of cultural marketing

What we have done?

• Timor Aid Collection : 150 tais

from Timor –Leste and West Timor active and developed

Researches

• Through 2009 to 2014 in partnership with Alola

Foundation and Yayasan Bebali, Ubud, Bali, organize several field trips and workshop to revive the traditional dying

• 2012 with the resources of French anthropologist

Bridgette Clamagirand that visit Timor in 1967 and 1970 , Timor Aid conducted a research about the tradition of the Kemak people in Bobonaro district, Timor -Leste

• 2013 the local government requested Timor aid to

conduct 2 researches to collect tais information in Covalima and Lautem districts.

Researches

2012 to 2014 conducted 5 researches

Collecting information through

• ld photos

Community trying to recognize familiar faces in the photos

Researches

Observing the Mud dying process

Weaving pattern identification

Some Finding

• The number of young women willing to

continue with this tradition is decreasing;

• In several districts the weavers no longer used

the hand spun cotton;

• Some of the weavers prefer to weave the

new/modern style of tais then the traditional

• nce.
• Marketing of the tais is still an issue

Exhibitions...

• 2009 together with Alola Foundation (another NGO)

mounted the exhibition “From light to dark” at Casa Europa, Dili

• 2010, for the first time Timor Aid mounted a solo

exhibition and exposed the collection to public.

• 2013, in partnership with “Museum Tekstil” in Jakarta,

Timor Aid, Alola Foundation and the local government mount the exhibition entitle “Futus- tenun ikat dari Timor-Leste and publish a catalogue with the same name

• 2014, mount Lautem and Suai exhibition in Timor Aid
• ffice
• 2014, Oecusse textile exhibition at Xanana culture centre

in Dili

• 2014, requested by the local government to mount the

exhibition “ Our Heritage” for the CPLP summit in Dili.

Tais, the traditional cloth that play significance role in the live of Timorese

Exhibitions

2009 to 2014 mounted 6 tais exhibitions

Reafirming the Kemak Culture now and then, Dili Seni Futus dari Timor Leste, Jakarta 2013

Publication

from 2013 published 3 catalogues based on the research results

Reafirming the Kemak cultura, now and then

The art of futus

Other activities

• Enhance the capacity of institutions working

in the area and local authority

• Establish partnerships and linkages in the field
• f cultural preservation

Conclusion

• Timor Aid has gained the trust of the local

government to carry out researches and exhibitions about Tais;

• Continue to establish partnerships and

strengthen the existing once to improve the quality of our work;

Textile Cultural tradition and their Preservation, Promotion and development

Issues

• Timor-Leste has no Museum to mount the

exhibition

• Lack of the proper materials to support the

collections

• Timor-Leste has no institutions that can

provide trainings in this area.

Timor - Leste collection

There are three main collections in Timor-Leste such as:

• Timor Aid collection

The collection was set up by Ms Ceu Federer. She is one of the founder of Timor Aid The collection is buying from the weavers, commissioned for the exhibition and donation. Timor Aid collection is active and develop Timor Aid is possible using the collection for publications, exhibitions and educations.

• Alola foundation collection

The collection has around 50 textiles. The collection was set up by Ms Sara Niener . The collection was acquired by buying from the weavers and donation. Alola collection is not active, but develop.

• National collection is under supervision of the

Secretary state of art and culture.

The collection has around 1800 artefacts such as: Textiles, historic, basketries, ceramics, wooden objects, metal objects and other fine arts item. Many collection of National collections have been lost, stolen, sold and destroyed during the time of conflict, however, has been retrieved, listed, and conserved by three staff of Museum and art gallery northern territory (MAGNT) in 2000 and help by the National Museum staff too. The collection is active and developed.

Private collectors are also consider in the exhibitions

The art of futus: Weaving technique from Timor-Leste

By: Jaquelina Ximenes

Aims

• As an on the job training for the staff of
• rganizations involves to learn about the

process and the work involves in mounting an exhibition abroad

• As a way to introduce our work to textile

communities and collectors in Jakarta

• As a way to promote the tais to wider

communities and strengthen the relations of the two countries.

Seni futus; tenun ikat dari Timor leste

• Jakarta exhibition held in 2013;
• Its was presenting cloths from Timor Leste and

West Timor

• The cloths of Timor-Leste from five districts such

as Baucau, Cova Lima, Bobonaro, Lautem and Oecusse district.

• The exhibition was exhibited in Jakarta Museum

Tekstil (JTM) for two weeks on 19 Sept till 1 of October 2013.

• It was done in partnership with Alola Foundation

and Secretary State of Art and Culture and JTM

• In this exhibition was launch a catalogue with

the same title in English and Indonesia

• There were sessions of student visits to learn

about the tais;

• A floor talk with the textile collectors and

museum practitioners.

Conclusion

• The students show big interested in learning the

technique of tais making

• Timor Aid will continue to build the staff capacity

through on the job training;

• Able to meet with several tais collectors in Jakarta and

identify some high value cloth;

• Strengthened the relationship with partners as a way

to improve the quality of the program outcome

• Recommendations for Melbourne University especially

art department to involve Timor Aid culture team if there is any conservation training.