Peter ten Hoopen began collecting ikat textiles from the Indonesian archipelago in the late 1970s. His partnership with Lisbon’s Museu do Oriente in 2014 led to the first exhibition of Indonesian ikat to display materials from across the archipelago, which would then become the model for the more comprehensive 2017 exhibition Fibres of Life at the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ten Hoopen is currently a PhD candidate at Leiden University.