Ikat Weaving is an important source of extra income for women in many parts of indonesia where myriad styles are produced with local characteristics. On the left is a woman weaving a sumba man's wrap on a traditional backstrap loom set up in the cool are under the platform house. On the right, a bevy of lovey girls prepare to celebrate their entrance into puberty, dressed in the rich brown double ikats made in pagringsingan tenganan, Bali. This one of the very few places in the world where double ikat's are still made; their production involves the tying and dyeing of warp threads and the weft threads, separately, before they are woven together.