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Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Cockatoo By Kathleen Buzzacott
$15.00
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Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Spinifex Pigeon By Kathleen Buzzacott
$15.00
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Kathleen Buzzacott Gallahs Tea Towel
$15.50
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Inarlenge (echidna) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists
$30.00
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Susan Wanji Wanji Crocodile and Barramundi Tea Towel
$15.50
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Damien & Yilpi Marks Tea Towel Family and Country
$15.50
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Josette Papajua Jilamara Design Tea Towel
$15.50
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Karina Coombes Crocodile Design Tea Towel
$15.00
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Julie Woods Two Sisters Tea Towel
$15.00
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Susan Wanji Wanji Bombing of Darwin Tea Towel
$15.00
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Julienne Morton My Country and Bush Medicine Plants Tea Towel
$15.50
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Karen Barnes Budgies Tea Towel
$15.00
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Murdie Morriss Two Dog Dreaming Tea Towel
$15.50
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Andrea Adamson Seven Sisters Tea Towel
$15.50
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Paddy Stewart Yam and Bush Tomato Dreaming Tea Towel
$15.50
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Rosie Ross Bush Medicine Plant Tea Towel
$15.50
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Keturah Nagala Zimran Tea Towel
$15.50
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Bernadette Mungatopi Crocodile Design Tea Towel
$15.50
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Artewe (Bush Turkey) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists
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Puli Puli 2 Pack of Oven Mitts
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Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Cockatoo By Kathleen Buzzacott
Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Cockatoo By Kathleen Buzzacott

Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Cockatoo By Kathleen Buzzacott

Regular price $15.00
9 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-KBU971

Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Spinifex Pigeon By Kathleen Buzzacott
Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Spinifex Pigeon By Kathleen Buzzacott

Better World Arts Tea Towel Featuring Spinifex Pigeon By Kathleen Buzzacott

Regular price $15.00
10 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-KBU936

Kathleen Buzzacott Gallahs Tea Towel
Kathleen Buzzacott Gallahs Tea Towel

Kathleen Buzzacott Gallahs Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
10 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-KBU983

Inarlenge (echidna) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists
Inarlenge (echidna) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists

Inarlenge (echidna) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists

Regular price $30.00
1 in stock

Inarlenge (echidna)


Linen tea towel designed by Marita McMillan of Ewyenper Atwatye Artists.

“Inarlenge (echidna). They use their tongue like a winch to get yerre (ant).”


Susan Wanji Wanji Crocodile and Barramundi Tea Towel
Susan Wanji Wanji Crocodile and Barramundi Tea Towel

Susan Wanji Wanji Crocodile and Barramundi Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
10 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-SWA163

2013 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award finalist Susan Wanji Wanji grew up in Maningrida and as a young girl learnt to make bark paintings and intricately woven mats and baskets. Susan has a unique style that has influence from both Tiwi and Arnhem Land cultures. In 1992 Susan Wanji Wanji travelled to Paris representing Munupi Arts.


Damien & Yilpi Marks Tea Towel Family and Country
Damien & Yilpi Marks Tea Towel Family and Country

Damien & Yilpi Marks Tea Towel Family and Country

Regular price $15.50
9 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-DYM931

This is a teaching painting, describing a dry season in Damien’s homeland, Mount Liebig, in the Northern Territory. It illustrates aspects of landscape and culture that was told to Damien by his great-grandparents. Women sit with children collecting bush potatoes (the red shapes at the top of the painting) and are preparing for inma (ceremony). One man, wati, sits down with his waru (spear). Controlled burnings are taking place as the spinifex is dry, and this means good fruits can grow. The small star-like symbols represent women’s body paint that the women paint on each other for inma. A dry creekbed runs through the painting (in red and white), and there are cracks in the claypans, dried rockholes (tjukula), and sandhills (tali).


Josette Papajua Jilamara Design Tea Towel
Josette Papajua Jilamara Design Tea Towel

Josette Papajua Jilamara Design Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
10 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-JPA145

During Ceremony on the Tiwi Islands a series of "Yoi", dances are performed, some are totemic (matrilineal) and others act out newly composed songs. Participants are painted with turtiyanginari (natural ochres) transforming the dancers and protecting them against mapurtiti (spirits). These designs are collectively called Jilamara.


Karina Coombes Crocodile Design Tea Towel
Karina Coombes Crocodile Design Tea Towel

Karina Coombes Crocodile Design Tea Towel

Regular price $15.00
9 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-KCO178

Julie Woods Two Sisters Tea Towel
Julie Woods Two Sisters Tea Towel

Julie Woods Two Sisters Tea Towel

Regular price $15.00
11 in stock

Better World Arts has been operating for over two decades. Our role models were Oxfam, Fred Hollows (the Fred Hollows Foundation) and Anita Roddick (The Body Shop).

Initially, we worked with traditional handicrafts. In 1996 we invited Aboriginal artists to join our projects and soon after we decided to focus on the Aboriginal art side of the projects and left the normal handicrafts to others like Oxfam.

We work with traditional artisans from remote regions in Kashmir, Peru, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal (Tibetan refugees). More recently we have started working with China, making bone china and silk ties.

We work with Australian Aboriginal artists from remote communities across Australia, from Arnhem Land to Central and the Western Desert regions, from rural locations and from cities.

We are members of The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand and we are endorsed by Fair Traders of Australia. So, what is the difference?

To become a member of The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand you simply pay a membership fee. In order to receive an endorsement as a Fair Trader of Australia, the business operations and practises are assessed and audited against the 10 principles of Fair Trade.

 The 10 internationally recognised standards of Fair Trade are:

  • Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers
  • Greater transparency and accountability
  • Fairer trading practices
  • Fairer prices for producers
  • No child exploitation or forced labour
  • Non-discrimination, gender equity and freedom of association
  • Better working conditions
  • Capacity building
  • Promotion of Fair Trade
  • Environmental sustainability

In our most recent audit, we were assessed on our relationships with Aboriginal artists and other Aboriginal suppliers. All of our overseas suppliers are either certified as fair traders in their own right, have SEDEX certification or have passed a private audit. As well as external certifications many of the workers involved in our manufacture are unionised and use their unions effectively to leverage their rights and conditions as workers.

Valuing partnerships and ethical trading is at the heart of Better World Arts Cross-Cultural Projects. Fair Trade is about constructive economic empowerment, equal relationships and justice, not charity dependence. Sustainable trade delivers reliable livelihoods to all participants. We create opportunities and give indigenous artists and artisans access to international markets and the mainstream economy, directly contributing to community empowerment and the preservation of culture.


Susan Wanji Wanji Bombing of Darwin Tea Towel
Susan Wanji Wanji Bombing of Darwin Tea Towel

Susan Wanji Wanji Bombing of Darwin Tea Towel

Regular price $15.00
10 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-SWA150

2013 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award finalist Susan Wanji Wanji grew up in Maningrida and as a young girl learnt to make bark paintings and intricately woven mats and baskets. Susan has since a unique style that has influence from both Tiwi and Arnhem Land cultures. In 1992 Susan Wanji Wanji travelled to Paris representing Munupi Arts


Julienne Morton My Country and Bush Medicine Plants Tea Towel
Julienne Morton My Country and Bush Medicine Plants Tea Towel

Julienne Morton My Country and Bush Medicine Plants Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
9 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-JMO420


Karen Barnes Budgies Tea Towel
Karen Barnes Budgies Tea Towel

Karen Barnes Budgies Tea Towel

Regular price $15.00
9 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-KBA697

Murdie Morriss Two Dog Dreaming Tea Towel
Murdie Morriss Two Dog Dreaming Tea Towel

Murdie Morriss Two Dog Dreaming Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
11 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-MNM619

Two dog ancestors, a Jampijinpa and a Napangardi, travelled from the west to the east. They dug holes in the ground and created warnirri (rockholes) and ngapa (waterholes) as they went. The two dogs separated. Eventually Jampijinpa became lonely and howled for Napangardi in the south. She came running to him, and they married each other at Ngarnka.


Andrea Adamson Seven Sisters Tea Towel
Andrea Adamson Seven Sisters Tea Towel

Andrea Adamson Seven Sisters Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
1 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-AAD998

This is the story of the seven sisters. The sisters fled from Wati Nyiru creating the country and landscape around Andrea’s home, Mala. They created the rockhole’s, sandhills and rocky outcrops as they tried to escape. The women flew up into the sky. Now, Wati Nyiru can be seen as Orion in the sky and the sisters are the Pleiades constellation.


Paddy Stewart Yam and Bush Tomato Dreaming Tea Towel
Paddy Stewart Yam and Bush Tomato Dreaming Tea Towel

Paddy Stewart Yam and Bush Tomato Dreaming Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
1 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-PST604

This painting shows the Yam and Bush Tomato Dreamings. You can see the Yams and the small round berries of the Bush Tomatoes. The place associated with this Dreaming is west of Yuendumu. In the Dreamtine the people used to eat these fruits and vegetables, just as our old people lived off them. What I have painted here is the Dreamtime Yams and Bush Tomatoes. I painted them here for the children to see.

Rosie Ross Bush Medicine Plant Tea Towel
Rosie Ross Bush Medicine Plant Tea Towel

Rosie Ross Bush Medicine Plant Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
1 in stock


Keturah Nagala Zimran Tea Towel
Keturah Nagala Zimran Tea Towel

Keturah Nagala Zimran Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
1 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel - Digital Print - 62.5cm x 42.5cm-KZI324

The ancient Australian landscape with its eroded forms and organic shapes provides motivation for Keturah's art. In this work Keturah depicts the natural rock formations (puli) found in and around Haasts Bluff.


Bernadette Mungatopi Crocodile Design Tea Towel
Bernadette Mungatopi Crocodile Design Tea Towel

Bernadette Mungatopi Crocodile Design Tea Towel

Regular price $15.50
13 in stock

Cotton Tea Towel – Digital Print – 62.5cm x 42.5cm-BEM186

Yirrikipayi is a Tiwi term for ‘salt-water crocodile, the largest living reptile and fiercest predator in the world. The ‘Yirrikipayi’ holds great cultural significance for the Tiwi people. This design marks the ceremonial and ancestral origins of the ‘Yirrikipayi’, which had been passed down from birth


Artewe (Bush Turkey) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists
Artewe (Bush Turkey) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists

Artewe (Bush Turkey) Tea Towel by Tangentyere Artists

Regular price $30.00
1 in stock

Artewe (Bush Turkey)

Linen tea towel designed by Christopher McMillan of Ewyenper Atwatye Artists.

“Artewe, some people say Kipara, some say bush turkey, mmm delicious!’


Puli Puli 2 Pack of Oven Mitts
Puli Puli 2 Pack of Oven Mitts

Puli Puli 2 Pack of Oven Mitts

Regular price $25.00
2 in stock

This beautiful set is part of Ashdene’s 2023 Ikuntji Collection.

Featuring ‘Puli Puli’ by Keturah Zimran.

PRODUCT FEATURES
It is 100% cotton, constructed with an insulating layer of fibre that protects your hands, and it has a nifty loop for hanging up in your kitchen.

PRODUCT INFORMATION
Size: 37x20cm
Fabrication: Cotton/Poly

PRODUCT CARE
Machine Washable


ABORIGINAL BUSH TRADERS
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