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The Tradition Keepers' stories of personal challenge and cultural survival go beneath the surface of Indonesia’s textile arts into a world of rituals and ancestors, cosmology and mythology, social and ecological wisdom. For over four thousand years, the indigenous peoples of the Indonesian archipelago have conveyed their worldview from generation to generation through the textile arts. And in a lifetime, these traditions are in crisis. This series takes us across Indonesia, telling the stories of those working to maintain their textile arts, showing the complexity of their work, placing their art within a living culture, and showing the challenges they face passing on their knowledge.