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Using an ethnographic approach in Manipur (mainly Ukhrul district) among the Tangkhul Nagas, this study explores how the traditional activity of weaving provides a platform for sociocultural–political expression. By focusing on Rose Kashan and Luingamla Kashan, the article highlights the layered connections between the Indigenous art of weaving as a text woven by the community as expression of solidarity, immortalization of stories, as well as hidden transcripts since Naga society and its histories are interwoven with axes of power and subaltern resistance vis-à-vis the Indian state.