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The Depository documents 3 techniques in Timor-Leste; by risk level: 2 critically endangered, 1 vulnerable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
A supplementary-weft float weaving technique from Timor-Leste in which discontinuous colored weft threads are interlaced over and under selected warp threads to build up raised geometric motifs on a plain-weave ground.
The foundational cloth-making tradition of Timor-Leste in which hand-spun cotton is woven on a backstrap loom using warp-ikat resist-dyeing to produce ceremonial textiles dense with ancestral motifs.
The construction and carving of uma lulik — sacred totem houses standing at the center of Timorese animist tradition and officially recognized as a national symbol of Timor-Leste.