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When it comes to souvenirs, many people are content to purchase cheap yet colorful reminders of their exotic holidays. Textiles made in a large warehouse factory are affordable and look cool at home, regardless of how authentic they are. But how can we expect to visit "authentic" villages in the future when we don't support their traditional way of life? What happens when remote villages can't sell the products their grandparents used to make because all the tourists are buying imitations at the market? We can recount all too many examples where locals convert ancestral fields to different crops. In some cases the government encourages this, in other cases it's because they can't make a living growing the tradition staples.
One example is natural dyes. If there are no more plants to make natural dyes this tradition will wither on the vine. If nobody purchases textiles made with natural dyes, only machine-made petrochemical yarns will exist in the future. It doesn't happen overnight, but eventually this is how traditions are lost.
Threads of Life is working to address these issues in order to preserve conventional methods, techniques, motifs and quality. Based in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia their most visible public effort is a retail gallery which sells original hand-made textiles and other products.