Weaving the Threads of Bhutanese Heritage

Feature-length Documentory (In development)



Weaving the Threads of Bhutanese Heritage is a feature-length documentary that explores the cultural and ecological life of Bhutanese textile weaving. Filmed in Khoma village in eastern Bhutan, the renowned home of Kishuthara, an intricate silk weaving tradition sustained through generations of women. The project reveals how this art form weaves together community, landscape, and the living environment.

Grounded in the ethnographic research of Yeshey Choden, a Bhutanese heritage scholar, the film extends her insights into the social, aesthetic, and symbolic worlds of weaving. The work illuminates the relations that sustain the practice: the plants that yield natural dyes, the rhythms of water and light, the gestures of making, and the shared spaces where weaving continues to thrive. Each act of creation as an expression of continuity, reciprocity, and care.

Filmed with a slow and participatory approach, the documentary moves within the rhythm of village life, attending to the texture of sound, colour, and collective presence. It invites the viewer into an ecology of attention, where weaving arises as an art of relation between women, land, and the vibrant life that surrounds them.

This project is made possible with the generous support of a grant from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.



Directed by Raúl Bartolomé

Co-Directed by Anna Kushnerova

Research and Cultural Collaboration by Yeshey Choden

A Human Clay Productions CIC project