Babbarra Women’s Centre

Hand Made Bag with Lino Fabric Off Cuts Hand made at Babbarra Designs, Maningrida.  Pocked featuring the Lino cut design by Jay Jurrupula Rostron. 

Mandjabu – Hand Sewn Tablecloth Kuninjku people traditionally make two sorts of conical fish traps. One is called mandjabu and is made from a strong, durable vine called milil, and a smaller one is called manylik mandjabu, and made from the grass manylik. The mandjabuconical fish trap is bigger and stronger and Read more…

Butterfly

Bolung Bolung (Rainbow Serpent) is from the sacred country of Dukala- Djarranj. This is the country of Jay’s grandparent and a place of great significance, as Bolung, the Rainbow Serpent, travelled through the landscape. Rock art in the area depicts a rotund Bolung. 

Hand Made Bag Marilyn’s first screen print design depicts the story of lorrkkon (hollow funeral logs). This the story of her great, great grandfather and grandmother who were bark painters, as well as also sacred lorrkkon painters. When designing this screen print, Marilyn was remembering her childhood living in a Read more…

Hand Made Bag with Lino Fabric Off Cuts

Hand Made Bag with Lino Off Cuts

Kunmadj & Marebu Hand Sewn Tablecloth Kunmadj is the Kuninjku term for large woven collecting baskets, known as dillybags. They are often made from the burney vine (Malaisia scandens), a strong, pliable plant that grows along the ground and into the canopy of monsoon vine thickets. The baskets are used to collect a variety of Read more…

Scrap Fabric Hand Sewn Cushion Cover

Lino print cushion cover