by ansera5_wp | Aug 21, 2016 | Sourcing research
Try saying that really really quickly. The island of New Guinea, the world’s second-largest, lies just north of Australia at the far eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago, where the Coral Sea becomes the South Pacific. The land mass is split right down the...
by ansera5_wp | May 13, 2016 | Sourcing research
The islands of Timor, Sumba and Flores are towards the east end of the long chain of beaches, paddies, volcanoes and coral reefs that make up the Indonesian archipelago. I’ve written about them all before (see here for Timor / Sumba / Flores) in the context of their...
by ansera5_wp | May 5, 2016 | Sourcing research
The origins of the songket weaving technique seem to be a little murky and mysterious, with a few different theories about when and where exactly it evolved. I’ve picked the one I like best to write about here – not exactly a scientific process but...
by sarah@anserai.com | Apr 10, 2016 | Sourcing research
The island of Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, just a short hop across the ocean from Sumba {which I wrote about recently – see here}. It is a hugely diverse place in terms of tribes, topography, textiles and tongues. Because of its...
by ansera5_wp | Oct 18, 2015 | Sourcing research
I wrote about the gorgeous buna textiles coming out of Timor a while back now, but today I wanted to talk about their ruddy lovely ikats. The island of Timor is one of the major landmasses of East Nusa Tenggara, poking out of the Savu Sea between the Solor Archipelago...
by ansera5_wp | Aug 22, 2015 | Sourcing research
/ { berry/forest green flowers, stars + dots, black/dove euro florals, indigo/ice blue colonial crests, fig/berry patola-inspired, indigo/forget-me-not basket handles, black/peach {aristocratic} horses...
by sarah@anserai.com | Aug 13, 2015 | Sourcing research
The island of Sumba is part of the province of Nusa Tenggara, surrounded by the Flores Sea: It’s always been a little-travelled spot, which has allowed it to keep its traditional culture and animist ‘Merapu’ religion intact for longer than a lot of...
by ansera5_wp | Jan 31, 2015 | Sourcing research
The island of Timor is one of the major landmasses of East Nusa Tenggara, poking out of the Savu Sea between the Solor Archipelago and Australia. Similar to Papua {which I wrote about recently, see here}, it is split slap bang right down the middle, into the very...
by sarah@anserai.com | Dec 30, 2014 | Sourcing research
Sabu {or commonly ‘Savu’} is an eeny weeny little island in the Lesser Sunda group, roughly halfway between Sumba and Timor {also comprising two other even smaller islands, but they’re not massively interesting textile-wise}. It has a very similar...
by sarah@anserai.com | Sep 25, 2014 | Sourcing research
One of my favourite elements of Anserai’s first collection is our range of unique and all natural tribal shell necklaces sourced from Papua, in the very east of the Indonesian archipelago. While sourcing some of these necklaces from a trader in Bali, I...
