តំពួន (Tampuan)
Tampuan weaving is the back-strap loom textile tradition of the Tampuan people of Ratanakiri Province — one of Cambodia's largest highland minority groups. The Tampuan tradition produces a distinctive textile with a dark indigo ground (achieved through the same iron-mud overdyeing process as Tai Dam, CRAFT-0414) with geometric supplementary weft patterns in red, white, and yellow — each pattern vocabulary specific to Tampuan sub-group and village. The most striking Tampuan textile is the women's skirt (sampot) with a vertical supplementary weft stripe system where pattern elements run lengthwise rather than across the cloth — opposite from most mainland Southeast Asian supplementary weft traditions. This vertical orientation requires a different counting system: instead of counting across weft rows, the weaver counts warp threads in each vertical element.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Cambodia national ICH list
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