> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Reference:: Sita Maimunah,  Weaving, Guardian of Identity: Weaving, the Commons & Womanhood, Poros Photo, Perhimpunan LAWE, Organisasi Attaemamus (OAT), and supported by GEF SGP, Jakarta pp. 2, 2017. > Date:: 2017 > Tags:: #warp #EastTimor #Indonesia > WeftLinks:: [[Equity value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides empowerment for women]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Timorese women used the power of their textiles to prevent environmental disaster through mining. ### Highlights A recent collection of stories from the regency of South Central Timor in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, titled *Weaving, Guardian of Identity: Weaving* (2017) documents the struggles of women who prevented an environmental disaster in the region by driving out a marble mining company from their land using their looms and weaving skills.   Their actions are testimony to the significance of weaving for the Timorese, which is deeply rooted in the their natural habitat as much as it is a source of livelihood, cultural identity and archive of knowledge for future generations. In her foreword to the volume, Catharina Dwihastarini National Secretariat Coordinator of GEF SGP writes, “our appreciation of textiles should no longer be based on the beauty of the textiles themselves, but a deeper understanding of weaving as an archive of womanhood.”