Craft is always our resistance. Every weave tells where we stand.
Reflecting on Where We Stand
In the wake of recent moments that stirred many of us across Indonesia, we’ve taken time to pause and reflect. Sometimes it takes distance, a few quiet days to understand what our hands have been saying all along.
At Studio Dapur, we believe that craft has never been separate from life, and that the choices we make through our hands are never neutral. Each weave, each touch of bamboo, each act of making connects us to the people who shape it, to the land that provides it, and to the values we choose to carry forward.
Craft as a Gentle Resistance
Craft is not loud, yet it speaks clearly. It resists in quiet, steady ways against excess, against forgetting, against the idea that faster and cheaper are always better. It resists by choosing fairness, patience, and care.
Every woven bamboo basket, every batik cloth, every tenun thread carries the quiet courage of generations before us. From Batik Nitik, which emerged as a subtle form of resistance to colonial rule; to Mama Aleta Baun, who led women in NTT to weave on threatened hillsides as a shield of nonviolent protest; to Wadon Wadas, a collective of women who use weaving as solidarity and empowerment
their stories remind us that craft in Indonesia has long been a language of hope and defiance.
Everything Is Political, Everything Is Connected
When we say craft is resistance, we don’t mean confrontation. We mean awareness that what we make, buy, and support always has an impact.
Craft connects livelihoods, ecosystems, and culture. It is where design meets dignity, and where beauty meets responsibility.
Everything is political because every decision, from how we source materials to how we treat people, shapes the kind of world we live in. Everything is interconnected because what happens in one hand, one village, one community, touches us all.
Everything Is Political, Everything Is Connected
At Studio Dapur, we stand for craft that sustains craft that honors makers, nurtures the land, and preserves cultural heritage. Our persistence is our resistance. We continue to weave stories of care and connection one basket, one thread, one piece at a time.
Keep crafting, keep creating, keep weaving. Craft is part of this resistance a quiet way we hold on to culture and build a fairer world together.