Kuching · Kampung Telaga Air · Baram
Seven programmes run out of Tanoti House and out into Sarawak — from two hours at the loom to two days in a longhouse. Choose a session and a time below, or write to us about the longer journeys.
T anoti has run visitor programmes since the atelier opened its doors on Jalan Tabuan. They are taught by the weavers themselves, in groups small enough that everyone gets a loom, and no experience is assumed.
There are two kinds. The first has a date, a price and a seat count — two hours at a songket loom, a rattan basket, a beading frame, or a half-day memento session. Those you choose, time and pay for here.
The second has none of those things: a trail out of the city, a night in a longhouse, a private group, a company away-day, a training programme for another craft community. Those are quoted, so they end at an enquiry rather than a checkout.
Book a session
Sessions run Monday to Saturday at Tanoti House. Pick a date and the times available that day will appear. All sessions need at least 48 hours' notice so the team can prepare your materials.
All mini workshops are held at Tanoti House, 56 Jalan Tabuan, 93100 Kuching. Closed on Sundays. Book at least 48 hours ahead.
2 hour session · Tanoti House, Kuching
Songket is the ceremonial cloth of the Malay world, woven with a supplementary weft of gold and silver thread. You sit at a mini-loom beside one of Tanoti's weavers, learn to lift the pattern by hand, and leave with the piece you made.
2 hour session · Tanoti House, Kuching
The rattan vine is hand-harvested from the highland rainforests of Sarawak, then split, cleaned and sun-dried before it ever reaches the table. You learn the plaiting rhythm the forest communities use and finish a small vessel of your own.
2.5 hour session · Tanoti House, Kuching
The beaded adornments of Sarawak's ethnic communities are built one bead at a time on a narrow beading loom. It is the longest of the three mini workshops, and the one people tend to underestimate.
4 hour session · Tanoti House, Kuching
A half-day at the loom rather than a taster. You are taken through the warp, the supplementary weft and the gold thread, and you finish a songket memento to take away. Four places a day across the two sessions, so it books out early.
These run on their own schedule and are priced by group size, so they start with a conversation rather than a checkout.
2 hours · from RM200
Out of Kuching towards Samarahan, where the nipah palm is tapped for gula apong and the sago is worked by hand. Two hours with the producers themselves, arranged on request.
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2 days, 1 night · from RM1,050
Two days and a night at Rumah Gare longhouse in Ulu Kapit with the Iban weavers who still dye with engkudu root and tarum indigo. Minimum two guests.
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2 or 3 days · on consultation
Out of Miri and up into the Baram highlands, with the beadwork, rattan and weaving communities there. Maximum eight guests, priced on consultation.
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