Textile collector and artist Kyoko Wainai has been working with a small community of weavers in Bhutan for the last 3 years, as part of the Tarayana Rural Crafts initiative. She assists them in transforming textiles into bags and objects for the home. When returning from a trip, she brought back a small bag of samples, and amongst the lot was a collection of lustrous woven ribbonlike strips which I have integrated in small artworks.