ETHICAL FASHION

Gorgeous hand screen printed textiles, bushed dyed silks and to-die-for jewellery. ABT has your fashion just the way you like it: slow, unique and supporting Indigenous artists and creatives around the country.

ANINDILYAKWA ARTS

Anindilyakwa women hold ancient knowledge of their country.

Colours within the fabric are harvested from natural dyes from native plant life and discarded metal objects found on community.

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Men's silk long-sleeve bush dyed silk shirt (S) by Sharna Wurramarra, Anindilyakwa Arts
Men's silk long-sleeve bush dyed silk shirt (S) by Sharna Wurramarra, Anindilyakwa Arts

Men's silk long-sleeve bush dyed silk shirt (S) by Sharna Wurramarra, Anindilyakwa Arts

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$220.00
1 in stock

This beautiful hand bush dyed silk menswear shirt from Anindilyakwa Arts is soft to the touch and wonderful to wear. Made from the secret dye recipes of the master craftswomen of Groote Eylandt, these unique pieces bring the botanical DNA and spirit of Groote Eylandt direct to your wardrobe.

Anindilyakwa Arts

Anindilyakwa women hold ancient knowledge of their country. Colours within the fabric are harvested from natural dyes from native plant life and discarded metal objects found on community.

The dying process begins with a bush trip that draws on traditional knowledge to find and collect roots, leaves, bark and berries that have always been used in traditional dyeing practices. The women carefully design each garment, binding each piece with leaves and found objects from community to place on the boil. It’s then time for a cuppa and to wait and watch the silk transform from white into a unique reflection of the land.

This garment has been rinsed but not washed, we recommend cold hand washing separately with mild non-bleaching detergent or shampoo. Do not dry clean, tumble dry, soak in hot water or bleach.

Due to the nature of the bush dyeing process, the colour of this product may transfer to other objects, we recommend avoiding contact with light coloured

Men's silk long-sleeve bush dyed silk shirt (S) by Edith Mamarika, Anindilyakwa Arts
Men's silk long-sleeve bush dyed silk shirt (S) by Edith Mamarika, Anindilyakwa Arts

Men's silk long-sleeve bush dyed silk shirt (S) by Edith Mamarika, Anindilyakwa Arts

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$220.00
1 in stock

This beautiful hand bush dyed silk menswear shirt from Anindilyakwa Arts is soft to the touch and wonderful to wear. Made from the secret dye recipes of the master craftswomen of Groote Eylandt, these unique pieces bring the botanical DNA and spirit of Groote Eylandt direct to your wardrobe.

Anindilyakwa Arts

Anindilyakwa women hold ancient knowledge of their country. Colours within the fabric are harvested from natural dyes from native plant life and discarded metal objects found on community.

The dying process begins with a bush trip that draws on traditional knowledge to find and collect roots, leaves, bark and berries that have always been used in traditional dyeing practices. The women carefully design each garment, binding each piece with leaves and found objects from community to place on the boil. It’s then time for a cuppa and to wait and watch the silk transform from white into a unique reflection of the land.

This garment has been rinsed but not washed, we recommend cold hand washing separately with mild non-bleaching detergent or shampoo. Do not dry clean, tumble dry, soak in hot water or bleach.

Due to the nature of the bush dyeing process, the colour of this product may transfer to other objects, we recommend avoiding contact with light coloured

BABBARRA DESIGNS

Bábbarra Women’s Centre enables local women to develop and run women-centred enterprises that support healthy and sustainable livelihoods.

Bábbarra Designs is their main enterprise. They run a textile workshop specialising in the production of hand-printed fabric design, as well as a skilled sewing team and are one of only a few Indigenous textile-producing art centres in Australia that design, print and sew product onsite, in community.

Bábbarra Women’s Centre is governed by women for women, led by the strong voices of our Bábbarra Women’s Board. In this space, women are in charge. 

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Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m
Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m

Susan Marawarr, Lorrkkon, screen print on linen, 2m

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$440.00
1 in stock

This work by Maningrida artist Susan Marawarr depicts emblems and totems used to decorate the Lorrkkon. The Lorrkkon or hollow-log coffin ceremony is the final ceremony in a sequence of mortuary rituals celebrated by the people of Arnhem Land. This ceremony might take place many years after the person has died, and involves the placing of the deceased’s bones into a hollow log that is decorated with painted clan designs and ceremonially placed into the ground where it slowly decays over many years.

BIOGRAPHY

Susan Marawarr is a leading textile artist who has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2001. She has strong artistic family connections, being the daughter of Anchor Kulunba and Mary Marabamba, and the sister of acclaimed bark painters James Iyuna and John Mawurndjul. Marawarr is an accomplished printmaker, sculptor, weaver and bark painter. She collaborated with Waanyi artist Judy Watson for Watson’s public art commission of bronze fish fences and dillybags installed at Sydney International Airport, and toured the USA with Bush Colour, promoting the work of female printmakers.

BABBARRA WOMEN'S CENTRE

Bábbarra Women’s Centre enables local women to develop and run women-centred enterprises that support healthy and sustainable livelihoods.

Bábbarra Designs is their main enterprise. They run a textile workshop specialising in the production of hand-printed fabric design, as well as a skilled sewing team and are one of only a few Indigenous textile-producing art centres in Australia that design, print and sew product onsite, in community.

Bábbarra Women’s Centre is governed by women for women, led by the strong voices of our Bábbarra Women’s Board. In this space, women are in charge. 

Bábbarra Women’s Centre is part of Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation, which was set up by Maningrida community leaders in 1974 to support people to live on their homelands.

For more information visit www.babbarra.com