Over her time at the workshop, Huang kept hearing about how the Aboriginal peoples once had highly advanced weaving methods, but in one of her advanced classes her teacher bluntly remarked, "If you want to learn about Aboriginal weaving in Taiwan now, you're too late," because "all that's left of Aboriginal culture is a hollow shell. The spirit of has long since vanished into thin air."
尤瑪在工藝館工作的過程中，不斷接受到「原住民曾有過很高深織布技術」的訊息，但在一次進修課程中，一位老師卻率直地說，「現在去研究台灣原住民織布技藝已經太晚了！」因為「只剩下物質的糟粕，背後的精神已經像過往雲煙不再存在了！」