FIELD NOTES / TLS / South-Eastern Asia
Timor-Leste
Tais cotton & dyed threads.
START WITH A PLACE
Tais, traditional textile
Tais is a handwoven textile practice in Timor-Leste, with colours and designs varying between communities. UNESCO’s record describes cotton preparation, dyeing and weaving as skills carried through social and family relationships.
Read the source UNESCO Intangible Cultural HeritageA CLOSER LOOK
A study in grain and rhythm.
Study the relationship between a single thread, a band and the full cloth. Retain the maker and community context rather than treating a motif as a national template.
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Fibre paper#ece9dboklch(0.933 0.019 96.873)
Cut straw#c5b08aoklch(0.766 0.057 82.249)
Forest shade#4d7162oklch(0.517 0.048 166.710)
Thread ochre#bd8453oklch(0.660 0.096 60.682)
Grain ink#283630oklch(0.318 0.021 166.943)