Buku ini merupakan ungkapan kebanggaan dan rasa hormat yang tulus kepada para wanita penenun dan pencipta susunan dan ragam hias tenunan rakyat masa lampau, para kepala suku, raja dan kaum ningrat pembina dan pemelihara rekayasa tenunan tiap kelompok suku dan kerajaan tempo dulu, para pengamat dan peneliti budaya tenunan kawasan timur yang merintis penelitian, menafsirkan dan mekam perjalanan budaya tenun tangan rakyat. These few pages just to express sincere praise and great pride of those women-weavers and designers who had created motifs from beliefs ornamentation from imagination of the leaders, the kings and the nobility who had taken care of the precious designs in sincerity representing the kingdoms and natives individually and of those researchers and observers of weaving who have undergone hard and troublesome pioneering to record and interpret traditional hand-woven products developing.