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Banami (brolga) by Billy Black

Screenprinted tea towel with Banami (brolga) design
100% linen
70 x 50cm
Available in black and flax colours 

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

ARTWORK STORY 

Aboriginal art in Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land is commonly illustrated through designs and images of animals, plants, and landscape. These motifs commonly reflect the artists ancestral inheritance and their dreamings and are referred to as totems. This is one of the artists totems.

Brolgas have very long legs, which are grey to black. The Brolga is omnivorous meaning that they will feed on both plant and animal matter. They will eat a variety of wetland plants, insects and amphibians, and have also been known to eat mice. They are seen in the Wetlands of Arnhem Land.

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Gurrumattji (magpie geese) by Selena Malibirr

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

  • Screenprinted linen tea towel with Gurrumatji (Magpie Geese) design 
  • 100% linen
  • 70cm x 50cm
  • Available in black and flax colours 

 

ARTWORK STORY 

The Yolngu people of Arnhem Land originate from a spiritual source, fixed in a particular place in their land or the sea. These ‘Spiritual Reservoirs’ are often in the form of special waterholes made by Wangarr (Creative Beings) long ago close to the beginning of time.

The creator beings moved across the country side, shaping the land and implanting in each tract of country, the spiritual life force for the people who were to own it. These Creative Spirits took many forms. When they gave the land to each group they also gave songs, dances, ceremony, the associated laws and language. The Creation story for Ganalbingu people took place near the middle section of the Glyde River where it becomes the Goyder River. Their land, Ngaliyindi, sits astride the Arafura Swamp in Central Arnhem Land.

In this painting, the artist has depicted Gurrumattji (magpie geese), which are sacred to the Ganalbingu people. To the east of the Arafura Swamp is a freshwater billabong which is said to have been made by the Goose Spirit and is in the shape of a goose nest. As a result, geese, their eggs and their nests are sacred.

 

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Nelly clutch

This zippered clutch with detachable wrist strap was made with fabric that was screenprinted by Yolŋu art workers at Bula’Bula Arts. We print small batches of tea towels, tshirts and fabric lengths by hand because we love putting Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use! 

  • Zippered clutch with detachable wrist strap 
  • Fully lined with internal zippered pocket
  • 21cm x 16cm

FABRIC STORY

The Nelly clutch is available in four fabric designs and multiple vibrant colour combinations:

  • Dawurrmonuk (itchy caterpillar) by Evonne Gayuwrri
  • Lidjilidji (Crimson Finch) by Andrew Wanamilil
  • Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Peter Gambung
  • Ngambi (limestone) spear by Shannon Ashley

Due to the lovely handmade nature of this product, print quality may vary.

WORKING WITH FLYING FOX FABRICS 

We work with Flying Fox Fabrics, a small social enterprise based in Darwin. Flying Fox Fabrics, make and sell accessories, clothing and homewares from fabrics designed by Aboriginal artists which have been hand printed in Australia. They work in partnership with Aboriginal artists and fair trade organisations in Cambodia that train and employ disabled artisans.

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Zara purse (large)

The Zara Purse is a small zippered back made with fabric that was screenprinted by hand by Yolŋu art workers at Bula’Bula Arts. We print small batches of tea towels, tshirts and fabric lengths by hand because we love putting Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use! Due to the lovely handmade nature of this product, print quality may vary.

  • 27cm x 17cm
  • Fully lined with internal zipper pocket 
  • Made with screenprinted fabric designed and printed by Bula’bula artists 

The Zara Purse is available in four fabric designs and multiple vibrant colour combinations:

  • Dawurrmonuk (itchy caterpillar) by Evonne Gayuwrri
  • Lidjilidji (Crimson Finch) by Andrew Wanamilil
  • Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Peter Gambung
  • Ngambi (limestone) spear by Shannon Ashley

WORKING WITH FLYING FOX FABRICS 

We work with Flying Fox Fabrics, a small social enterprise based in Darwin. Flying Fox Fabrics, make and sell accessories, clothing and homewares from fabrics designed by Aboriginal artists which have been hand printed in Australia. They work in partnership with Aboriginal artists and fair trade organisations in Cambodia that train and employ disabled artisans.

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Zara purse (small)

  • Screenprinted fabric from Bula’Bula 
  • Fullly lined with internal zipper pocket 
  • 22cm x 13cm

FABRIC STORY 

This product was screenprinted by Yolŋu art workers at Bula’Bula Arts. We print small batches of tea towels, tshirts and fabric lengths by hand because we love putting Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use! Due to the lovely handmade nature of this product, print quality may vary.

 Available in four fabric designs and multiple vibrant colour combinations:

  • Dawurrmonuk (itchy caterpillar) by Evonne Gayuwrri
  • Lidjilidji (Crimson Finch) by Andrew Wanamilil
  • Lorrpu (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo) by Peter Gambung
  • Ngambi (limestone) spear by Shannon Ashley

WORKING WITH FLYING FOX FABRICS 

We work with Flying Fox Fabrics, a small social enterprise based in Darwin. Flying Fox Fabrics, make and sell accessories, clothing and homewares from fabrics designed by Aboriginal artists which have been hand printed in Australia. They work in partnership with Aboriginal artists and fair trade organisations in Cambodia that train and employ disabled artisans.

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Sticker Pack

Meet animals and creation spirits from Ramingining, Arnhem Land. These sticker designs are taken from original paintings from incredible Yolŋu artists at Bula’Bula Arts. We love seeing Yolŋu designs on everyday items – especially ones that balanda (non-Yolŋu) use – because we are proud of our culture! It makes us happy to see our stories travel all around the world.

  • Materials: High quality PVC. UV protected and water resistant. 
  • Use: Suitable for indoor and outdoor use including bumpers, vehicles and windows.
  • Designed in Ramingining, Arnhem Land. 

Yo! 10 stickers inside by Bula’bula artists: 

  • Guwarrtji (Hawksbill sea turtle) by Peter Gambung
  • Warrnyu (Flying Fox) by Andrew Wanamilil
  • Wuldulbal/badju (bream) by JB Fisher
  • Gananhdharr (egret) by Daniel Warrulukuma
  • Gumang (magpie goose) by Angela Malibirr
  • Burala (diving duck/oriental darter) by Peter Gambung

Manymak (very good)! This product helps build a sustainable source of income for Yolŋu artists and art workers at Bula’Bula Arts.

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Coil Basket

Coil basketry is a well-established fibre art form in the Maningrida region, especially for women from the Kuninjku, Rembarrnga, Ndjebbana and Nakkara language groups. 

Artists make coiled baskets of many shapes and sizes, ranging from small round baskets to large oval baby baskets, and made mostly from pandanus fibre that is dyed with natural pigments. Bundles of fibre are formed into coils which are covered and stitched together with strands of fibre threaded onto a needle. Artists combine colours and patterns to obtain intricate new graphic patterns.

These techniques are believed to have been introduced to Arnhem Land by Greta Matthews, a missionary on Goulburn Island in the 1920s. She had probably learnt coil basketry from Aboriginal people in the south-east of Australia, possibly the Murray River people such as the Yorta Yorta or the coastal Ngarrindjeri. 

The coiling technique spread quickly from Goulburn Island to people on mainland Arnhem Land. 

 

 

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Kun-madj – large dillybag vine

Kun-madj, or dilly bag, is a large woven collecting basket. These large bags are often made from the vine ‘Malasia scandens’, a strong pliable plant which grows along the floor and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The bags are used to collect any kind of large numbers of heavy foods such as fish caught in conical fish traps or large collections of yams.

They can also be made from Pandanus spiralis, a plant which grows in many areas of Arnhem Land. These dilly bags are a tightly woven collecting basket, very finely made. These dilly bags are often used to collect sugarbag, the native honey

As well as being of practical use, dilly bags are also of religious significance to Arnhem Land people. Dilly bags are said to be totemic objects and associated with particular sites in the landscape.

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Man-ngalinj (bush potato)

Man-ngalinj is a root vegetable often described as ‘bush potato’. It’s duwa, the artist’s moiety. It has a bulbous root and a long thin vine with small flowers that grows across the ground or up the trunks of nearby trees. Large crops can be found near the artist’s outstation, Bolkdjam. Man-ngalinj are harvested after the Wet season in the early Dry

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