Indigenous

Our authentic indigenous craft print fabric has been selected from a range of artists and is suitable for all quilting and craft projects. It’s 100% cotton and comes in a 145cm width. Available by the metre. Aboriginal artist, Julie Paige was born in Alice Springs Central Australia from the language area of “Umutju-South West Peterman-West of Uluru. She has been painting for over 30 years for various galleries and private buyers, designed t-shirts and been commissioned for large murals. Many of her works have been sent both interstate and overseas to Europe, America, Germany and Canada.
Julie was taught by her mother and aunt where she mainly paints dots from Central Australia, using acrylics on all types of mediums including leather, ceramics and canvas. Her stories are told using traditional symbols throughout her work, passed down from her grandmothers. Something that is important to Julie is passing down her knowledge and skills to her children, as well as school kids. It is here that she teaches them about traditional paintings and the stories behind them.
BUSH TUCKER
In the centre are three people sitting at their campfire. They have digging sticks and coolamons at their side showing that they are females. They are probably talking of the various foods available in the surrounding lands. The honey ants, small lizards, snakes and witchetty grubs are all shown, along with some bush fruits. The footprints wandering through the paintings show the women as gatherers of these foods.

Our authentic indigenous craft print fabric has been selected from a range of artists and is suitable for all quilting and craft projects. It’s 100% cotton and comes in a 145cm width. Available by the metre. Aboriginal artist, Julie Paige was born in Alice Springs Central Australia from the language area of “Umutju-South West Peterman-West of Uluru. She has been painting for over 30 years for various galleries and private buyers, designed t-shirts and been commissioned for large murals. Many of her works have been sent both interstate and overseas to Europe, America, Germany and Canada.
Julie was taught by her mother and aunt where she mainly paints dots from Central Australia, using acrylics on all types of mediums including leather, ceramics and canvas. Her stories are told using traditional symbols throughout her work, passed down from her grandmothers. Something that is important to Julie is passing down her knowledge and skills to her children, as well as school kids. It is here that she teaches them about traditional paintings and the stories behind them.
BUSH TUCKER
In the centre are three people sitting at their campfire. They have digging sticks and coolamons at their side showing that they are females. They are probably talking of the various foods available in the surrounding lands. The honey ants, small lizards, snakes and witchetty grubs are all shown, along with some bush fruits. The footprints wandering through the paintings show the women as gatherers of these foods.

Our authentic indigenous craft print fabric has been selected from a range of artists and is suitable for all quilting and craft projects. It’s 100% cotton and comes in a 145cm width. Available by the metre. Aout the artist: Wendy Pawley is from the Kamilaroi - Gomeroi, Gamilaraay people of Narrabri NSW. The meaning of Narrabri / Nurraburai is “Place of Forked Waters”. Wendy’s mother (the late) Mrs Noeleen Saunders (nee Trindall) was a widely known respected Traditional Owner of Narrabri and surrounding areas. Wendy paints her “Mother’s Country” predominantly the ancient spectacular rugged mountains of The Nandewar Ranges Ninghdoo, Kaputah, Yulludunida and Yulludanda that rise majestically above the Namoi Valley. The range is the remnants of an eroded basaltic shield volcano that formed about 18 million years ago, the volcanic plug in Gamilaaray language is called Ninghdoo / Nungadhun (pronounced locally as Ningy-doo). The Mount Kaputah area is included in Mount Kaputah National Park.
UPPER BULLAWA
Upper Bullawa is in the vicinity of an ancient volcano high up in The Nandewar Ranges in Kamilaroi / Gomeroi Country Northwest NSW. Bullawa, Upper Bullawa and Bullawa Creek are places of rugged, serene beauty and open to the public via Kaputah National Park.

Our authentic indigenous craft print fabric has been selected from a range of artists and is suitable for all quilting and craft projects. It’s 100% cotton and comes in a 145cm width. Available by the metre. The Artist: Karen Taylor is a Yankunytjatjara – Lurija / Adnyamathananha - Arabana aboriginal lady from the Northern Territory and South Australia. She painted her walkabout design when she was 21 years of age and living in Alice Springs. From a very young age Karen has had a passion for art. This is through growing up and watching the elders creating their artwork in different ways. Karen still paints today.
ON WALKABOUT OCHRE
This painting represents when Aboriginal tribes ran out of bush tucker on their land, they would go walkabout to another area of their country where there was bush tucker. They would walk days, sometimes weeks, camping along the way which the painting shows. They would only stay in their own country, never walking onto other Aboriginal tribe’s land.