CompNet Systems

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Tali in my Country

This design by Maisie Jugadai shows the ‘Sandhills Story’.

This design shows the artist’s Tjukurrpa, the Tali Tali Dreaming. It refers to the vast and desolate sandhills of her country near Taalalpi, which is located beyond the Kintore/Kiwikurra road near the West Australian and Northern Territory border. This is the country where her father and mother used to travel by foot when she was a young girl. The place is still of great spiritual significance to Alice and her father’s family as it contains both, personal and tribal law to which Alice relates in her work. Water has collected in between the sandhills, providing sustenance for her porcupine. The tjikamamta (porcupine) is Alice’s own personal tjukurrpa (dreaming). She returned to her country for a visit in late 2005.

This fabric has been screen printed by hand by Publisher Textiles and Papers, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.

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Audrey Top, Women’s Business (Mavis Marks)

This funky piece of wearable art is part of our collaboration with Publisher Textiles. Each shirt is hand screen-printed and made in Sydney, Australia!

Timeless and stylish, just like its name sake Audrey Hepburn. This simple box cut top features short sleeves, a flattering rounded neck, and a long waistline.

This versatile top transitions from the office into the evening, perfect paired with a fitted pencil skirt or classic black trousers.

Featuring design by Mavis Nampitjinpa Marks showing the ‘Women’s Business Story’.

This fabric has been screen printed by hand by Published Textiles and Papers, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.

About the Makers:

Publisher Textiles & Papers is one of Australia’s leading print houses. Focused on producing original patterns through traditional hand-screen printing methods we create bold and colourful textiles, hand printed wallpaper, clothing and fabric.

Treat this handmade garment with love and it will love you back! Cold gentle machine wash, drip dry in shade, warm iron. Avoid the tumble dryer and dry cleaner.

Being handmade there may be some print variations, making each garment unique.

Hand printed and made in Sydney.

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Audrey Top – Tjilkamala Rockholes – Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon

This funky piece of wearable art is part of our collaboration with Publisher Textiles. Each shirt is hand screen-printed and made in Sydney, Australia!

Timeless and stylish, just like its name sake Audrey Hepburn. This simple box cut top features short sleeves, a flattering rounded neck, and a long waistline.

This versatile top transitions from the office into the evening, perfect paired with a fitted pencil skirt or classic black trousers.

Featuring design by artist Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon

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.

This fabric has been screen printed by hand by Published Textiles and Papers, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.

About the Makers:

Publisher Textiles & Papers is one of Australia’s leading print houses. Focused on producing original patterns through traditional hand-screen printing methods we create bold and colourful textiles, hand printed wallpaper, clothing and fabric.

Treat this handmade garment with love and it will love you back! Cold gentle machine wash, drip dry in shade, warm iron. Avoid the tumble dryer and dry cleaner.

Being handmade there may be some print variations, making each garment unique.

Hand printed and made in Sydney.

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Goanna, cream on black (tencel) 50cm

Zakius’ design shows a goanna motif.

This fabric has been screen printed by hand by Publisher Textiles and Papers, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.

About the printers:

Publisher Textiles & Papers is one of Australia’s leading print houses. Focused on producing original patterns through traditional hand-screen printing methods we create bold and colourful textiles, hand printed wallpaper, clothing and fabric.

Our fabric is printed in small batches and is available in pre-cut lengths on the website, which we update regularly. For larger quantities, please email us to discuss pre-orders.

This fabric is by continuous meterage going up in 50cm increments, priced at $110 per metre.

For 1m, please add 2 x 50cm to your cart and it will be cut as a continuous length ($110 for 1m).

For 2m, please add 4 x 50cm to your cart and it will be cut as a continuous length ($220 for 2m).

For 3m, please add 6 x 50cm to your cart and it will be cut as a continuous length ($330 for 3m).

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

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Uwulkari – Watiya Tjuta

Mitjili paints her fathers Tjukurrpa, the ceremonial spear straightening in Uwalkari country (Gibson desert region). The Watiya Tjuta (Acacia Trees) are the trees that are used to make these spears. Uwalkari country is abundant with Watiya Tjuta, as well as sand hills and other plants. Mitjili paints the motif of the Watiya Tjuta, carrying on the recurring motif as her mother used to draw in the sand. Her mother passed on this Dreaming to her. 

Napurrula’s father, Tupa Tjakamarra gave her the right to paint works related to Ilyingaungau in the Gibson Desert. This site, south of Walungurru (Kintore), some 520 kilometres west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), is where the artist’s Mutikatjirri ancestors assembled their kulata (spears) for a conflict with the Tjukula men. Allusive works that refer to the straightening of kulata by Tjupurrula are among the landmark paintings of the Ikuntji Artists movement’s 30-year history. The paintings of Napurrula and her husband, Long Tom Tjapanangka, have come to be understood as archetypical of Ikuntji art since they began to work with the arts centre in 1993. Napurrula remembers, ‘ … After I got married, my mother taught me my father’s Tjukurrpa in the sand, that’s what I’m painting on the canvas’. The white pigment eddies around abstract forms that refer to the spearwood trees. The tightly structured patterning of the key motifs and bold use of colour demonstrates the artist’s confidence in her individual artistic vision within a family of superlative artists – and the cultural heritage that continues to inform the myriad expressions of Western Desert artists.

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Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon, Trees at Talaalpi (red and pink on black, linen), A-line mini dress

This design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts the trees in Alice’s country, Talaalpi. Her country is situated close to Kintore on the Western Australian border. She grew up there and moved to Haasts Bluff later in life.

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Roseranna Larry, Wirliyajarrayi (black and cream on camel, cotton), pinafore

This design by Roseranna Larry shows the ‘Wirliyajarrayi Story’.

This story was passed down to the artist from Old Lady Napaltjarri Morton.

The design shows the story of Janyanpartinya creek (Mount Campbell). The kingki/tjanpa and milarrpa watinki/ukurrukurru tjuta (boogey men and women) live near this creek.

The old ladies can sing the boogey men and women so that they come.

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Mavis Marks, Women’s Business (copper on petrol, silk), shift dress

In this design, Mavis depicts women’s business. She paints the women’s ceremonial dancing at Mt Liebig, close to where she was born and where she has lived most of her life.

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Mitjili Napurrula, Watiya Tjuta (white on black, linen), wrap dress

In this design Mitjili Napurrula depicts her fathers Tjukurrpa, the ceremonial spear straightening in Uwalkari country (Gibson desert region). The Watiya Tjuta (Acacia Trees) are the trees that are used to make these spears. Uwalkari country is abundant with Watiya Tjuta, as well as sand hills and other plants. Mitjili paints the motif of the Watiya Tjuta, carrying on the recurring motif as her mother used to draw in the sand. Her mother passed on this Dreaming to her.

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Kuruyultu

In this painting Eunice depicts her father’s Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). It shows the country at Kuruyultu, near Tjukurrla in Western Australia.

Eunice Napanangka Jack says about the artwork:

‘This is my country. I can’t remember how it all happened, because it happened before I was born. I have a scar on my back from it. My grandfather speared a wallaby at Kuruyultu. That night he ate that wallaby. At the same time my mother could feel me moving inside her. She was heavily pregnant with me. That next morning, after my grandfather had speared the wallaby, killed it and eaten it, I was born. I was born at Kuruyultu, near the rockhole there. I can’t remember my grandfather or my grandmother. I was still a little baby. We left that place, Kuruyultu. My father, my mother, my big sister and my father’s brother, we all left together and went to Haasts Bluff. I grew up in Haasts Bluff. I have been back to Kuruyultu for visits but I never lived there again in my country. I think about it every day. Only my father knows all the stories for that country and he painted them too… all the men’s stories. I know the story of the wallaby mother and daughter which left me with a birthmark. That’s what I paint: the wallaby mother and daughter.’