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Adiwastra Nusantara: Masterpieces of the Islands Art nouveau was assembled by a leadingCloth, whether woven, beaten, knotted or knitted is much more than clothing in Indonesia. Throughout the centuries it has served to bind together people, families, and communities, to generate income, to display family status and the technical skill of the maker, to remind viewers, through symbolic patterning, of ethics, moral obligations, and the deeper meaning of life, to create cubicles for ritual enactment, to protect and bless, and to distinguish