Tais buna is the supplementary-warp patterned cloth of Timor-Leste, woven on the backstrap loom by village women and figured with geometric motifs unique to each district. Often paired with futus warp-ikat, its colours are symbolic: red for sacrifice and liberation, black for triumph, yellow for the remnants of colonialism, white for peace.

This design system reads as a coloured tais ground — a deep natural-dye madder field, banded with black warp stripes and figured in ochre geometry. Nothing is blank cloth; every surface carries the weight of dyed, woven meaning.