Novieta Tourisia

Novieta Tourisia is an Indonesian textile and mixed media artist based in Ubud, Bali. She has worked with natural dyes and fibers for her artworks and wearables over the past ten years. Always a crafter since childhood, it was only in her early 20s that a personal pilgrimage to her maternal homeland, West Sumatra, revealed that some of her great-grandmothers were weavers and dyers. This ancestral matriarchal reconnection and her work with barkcloth artisans in Poso, Central Sulawesi, inspired and empowered her to pursue artisanal craftswomanship. She left her years-long career in tourism and, in 2015, founded an artisanal textile studio known as Cinta Bumi Artisans.