Fabric Length, 1 m, buy Linen, Aboriginal Art, Hand printed, Blue, Rockholes Design, Alice Nampitjinpa, Ikuntji Artists, Fair Trade, Australia

Design hand-screenprinted in Australia on quality pure linen fabric. This is the first release of these colors and fabric by Ikuntji Artists and Fying Fox Fabrics is delighted to be the only stockist.
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.
Fabric color: 'hessian', a neutral with a tint. It's difficult to capture accurately. It has warm light brown tones. Cameras respond differently when capturing the same fabric with a different color on it - the final image is the same base cloth printed with white which gives an accurate indication of the actual color of the base cloth.
Ink color: blue and green
Base cloth: 100% 'Tuscany' linen
Length: 100 cm (39.5 inches) Width: 132 cm (52 inches)
Weight of base cloth: 210 gsm
The fabric has a lovely feel, it is a very good quality woven linen with a very slight sheen. Equally good for mid season clothing and homewares.

See dress for scale of design and an example made from this fabric print available through Magpie Goose here: https://magpiegoose.com/collections/ikuntji-artists/products/shift-dress-tjilkamata-rockhole
and men's shirt: https://magpiegoose.com/collections/ikuntji-artists/products/short-sleeve-shirt-tjilkamata-rockhole

Design:
This design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts Takupalangu west of Kintore. This is Uta Uta Tjangala's country, which he has painted throughout his career. Nampitjinpa paints her father's country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). There is plenty bushtucker – mangilpa, which are little black seeds around. The road to Kiwirrkurra passes Takupalangu on the side.
Alice describes the big swamp of Takupalangu, in her Fathers country. Takupalangu is filled up with bush vegetables called mungilpa. When Alice was a small girl she travelled this country with her family. Her mother used to collect mungilpa and pummel it into dough which she made into damper. It is also a good place for hunting bush meat as the swamp is surrounded by rock hills.

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

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 hand wash only. Do not bleach, do not tumble dry, warm iron. buy