Fabric buy Length, 1 m, cotton, Aboriginal Art, Fabric Length, Hand printed, Sandhills, Ikuntji Artists, Australia, sewing, patchwork

Beautiful and balanced design hand-screenprinted on quality fabric. Excellent for clothing or homewares.
This is genuine hand printed fabric designed by an Aboriginal artist living in Haasts Bluff in Central Australia and produced by Ikuntji Artists.
Ink color: grey camo and sheriff white.
Base cloth: Grey (Elephant Skin) 'Trapper Drill'.
Length: 100 cm (39.5 inches) Width: 145 cm (57 inches)
Weight of base cloth: 195 gsm

Design:
The artist is paid royalties for every metre printed.
Lisa is a member of Ikuntji Artists, Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australian (Etsy won't accept that as the location, so we wrote Alice Springs).

Designer: Lisa Multa

Design: Tali at Kungkayunti (Sandhills at Kungayunti)
This design by Lisa Multa depicts the birds eye view of the tali tali (sandhills) at Kungkayunti (Brown's Bore). This is the country of Joe Tjakamarra Multa, the father of Douglas Multa, Agnes Multa, Lisa Multa, Alison Multa, Rephina Multa, Benita Multa and Patricia Multa and the grandfather to their children. The tali tali are a short walk from where the family lived and the children of Joe grew up.
Lisa remembers walking up the tali tali with her sister, Agnes Multa, who was the same age as her. When Lisa got married she brought her partner to see those tali tali. From the tali tali, a 360-degree view can be seen of the surrounding buy country. The area is abundant with bush tucker, especially bush tomatoes and bush banana.

Kungkayunti is an important place for the travelling Tjukurrpa of the ancestral Arrernte women who travelled 600 kms from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) to Kintore, past Kulpitarra (Outstation) to attend to women's business. Kungkayunti is the place where the women first camped. On their long journey, the women stopped at Kunkayunti (Brown's Bore) to camp, rest, eat and dance. When the women reached their destination, they danced, shared their stories and renewed their law. Those women turned into stone and can be seen today. Annual events continue today to strengthen this Tjukurrpa.

Printed by:
Publisher Textiles & Papers in Sydney is one of Australia's leading print houses. Focused on producing original patterns through traditional hand-screen printing methods they create bold and colourful textiles, hand printed wallpaper, clothing and fabric. www.publishertextiles.com.au

Fabric care instructions:
Gentle cold/ warm hand wash. Do not bleach, warm rinse well, do not tumble dry, cool iron only, dry cleanable (P).