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My good sister-friend Sarah (who has aboriginal heritage) and the incredibly special mat she brought home today from our visit to the Djilpin Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers Market at IATSIS in Canberra. It's hand-woven natural pandanus dyed with local bush color. So good to reconnect with Noreen, Vera and Fleur some of the women I was weaving with up in the Northern Territory and to see the lights they are making selling so quickly! Happy, happy women's business today. Circular Weaving, Aboriginal Culture, Weaving Designs, Aboriginal Artists, Sister Friends, Best Sister, Northern Territory, Weaving Textiles, My Good

My good sister-friend Sarah (who has aboriginal heritage) and the incredibly special mat she brought home today from our visit to the Djilpin Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers Market at IATSIS in Canberra. It's hand-woven natural pandanus dyed with local bush color. So good to reconnect with Noreen, Vera and Fleur some of the women I was weaving with up in the Northern Territory and to see the lights they are making selling so quickly! Happy, happy women's business today.

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Natural materials are harvested from the plants in the jungles of surrounding homelands such as pandanus, sandpalm and kurrajong bark. The plant material is worked and treated in the ways passed on from ancestors and in doing so the Yolngu (women) recreate and identify with the sacred ceremonial objects which connect Yolngu to each other, to their past, their creative beings and to their country. The fibres and strings produced are dyed with natural dyes made from fruits, roots, leaves and…

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