‘Social Status, Gender and the Pua Kumbu Weavers’, explicitly opens up the gendered dimensions of weaving in Iban society. The textile motifs, I argue, can be understood as a record female knowledge which incorporates not only technical skills in execution but also a huge pool of cultural codes that belong to the broader societal common knowledge. In short, textiles in Iban society cannot be separated from the cultural role of weaving and this in turn is constitutive of Indigenous ideas of gender. In light of this, the dialectic of structure and agency, or female and male, offers a point of entry into how Iban weaving has indeed changed and adapted to wider socioeconomic, cultural and political transformations. This leads to a reflection on how a revitalisation of Iban traditional weaving has emerged, and the opening up of new commercial opportunities for textiles stimulated by novel forms of market demand.