From Frame to Open Sky: Making a Wau Bulan
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LEGASI · STORIES OF LIVING CRAFT
A living heritage, told in many voices.
Meet the people, materials and ideas shaping craft across Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
What is Legasi? Nusatera’s editorial journal for stories about craft traditions, creative practice, makers and the places they call home.
It carries knowledge, livelihoods and local histories. Legasi brings those perspectives together—so readers can understand the work, meet its makers and explore what is being made today.
Our editorial approach ↗FOLLOW WHAT INTERESTS YOU
Find your way into the story.
Start with a tradition, a place, or the people behind the work.
THE LEGASI JOURNAL
Stories worth spending time with.
Personal perspectives and reported stories about craft, culture and change.
1 published story
EXPLORE BY BIDANG KRAF
Begin with the material.
Craft categories connect articles with the practices and products they describe.
STORIES ROOTED IN PLACE
Follow the story to its region.
Place pages bring together stories, makers and craft traditions from across Malaysia.
Peninsular Malaysia
Borneo
Select a state or federal territory to explore its Legasi collection.
Browse regions as a list
MADE WITH CONTEXT
Stories with people at their centre.
Legasi makes authorship visible and connects each story to the makers and traditions it discusses.