June 18, 2009
Crafting Better Lives
On tiny Indonesian islands, traditional textile weaving struggles to compete with the mass market. As women are pressed to produce more fabrics faster, weaving quality suffers.
But with the right incentive, that trend may be shifting.
Threads of Life, a business formed in the late 1990s, works with more than 1,000 women in 36 cooperatives to support the traditional textile craft. The Yayasan Pecinta Budaya Bebali Foundation, formed to support the business, has received nearly
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