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Putting in the colour : contemporary Aboriginal textiles / compiled by Mary-Lou Nugent for Desart, the Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres.
- Title
- Putting in the colour : contemporary Aboriginal textiles / compiled by Mary-Lou Nugent for Desart, the Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres.
- Publication
- Alice Springs, N.T. : Jukurrpa Books, 2001.
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- Description
- xvi, 88 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Summary
- Aboriginal people have always worked with textiles. In Central Australia and Top End the concept of applying images and designs to the surface of fabric is quite recent. In this book, they make their own way from Ernabella in northern South Australia to the Tiwi Islands of the Top End.
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Aboriginal textiles
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 88).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Ron Brien -- Getting started: A brief historical overview / Mary-Lou Nugent and Margie West -- Map showing the Aboriginal communities mentioned in this book -- The Fabric -- We started batik a long time ago: The introduction of fabric design to Aboriginal art centres -- Ernabelia textiles: the early days / Daisy (Nyukana) Baker and Winifred M. Hilliard -- Tiwi Design / Margie West -- Urapuntja Artists: The Early days / Hilda Apwerl -- Keringke Arts: Finding silk / Tim Rollason -- I got better and better: Learning the craft -- We didn't know what we were doing at first / Glory Angal, Lena Apwerl and Hilda Apwerl / [et al.] -- Then we changed over to silk / Violet Apetyarr -- We ended up knowing all about it / Alison (Milyika) Carroll, Doris Thomas and Matjangka (Nyukana) Norris / [et al.] -- We all help each other / Angelo Munkara and Djankawu Garrawurra -- The weather is a problem / Bernadette Puruntatameri -- Training on the ground / Penny Watson --^
- Keep doing this work after we are gone / Inawinytji Williamson -- All kinds of designs: the fabric imagery -- I do bushtucker / Peggy Napangardi Jones, Myrtle Apetyarr and Violet Apetyarr -- To hold onto our country / Kathleen Apetyarr, Mary Akemarr and Kathleen Wallace -- We paint our dreamings / Hilda Apwerl, Nyurpaya Kaika and Rosie Kunoth Kngwarray -- We have our own style / Matjangka (Nyukana) Norris, Gloria Apetyarr and Inawinytji Williamson / [et al.] -- Designing the Tiwi Way: An element of spontaneity / James Bennett -- My soul likes to work: Making a living from fabric -- My spirit like to paint / Matjangka (Nyukana) Norris, Gloria Apetyarr and Alison (Milyika) Carroll / [et al.] -- Working in a fabric workshop at an Aboriginal art centre / Kathleen Wallace, Linda Herangi and Osmond Kantilla / [et al.] -- The Ernabelia Arts Trading Company: Reflections on potential lost and found / Louise Partos -- Hot Wax: The Utopia-Yogyakarta Project / Mary-Lou Nugent --^
- Selling the fabric / Katey Curley, Inawinytji Williamson and Bernadette Puruntatameri -- Marketing Aboriginal textiles / Flick Wright, Andrea McNamara and Gillian Dallwitz -- Textile Collections: Dealing with documentation / Grace Cochrane -- App. 1. Techniques.
- ISBN
- 1864650281
- LCCN
- ^^2001275316
- OCLC
- 47731341
- SCSB-11688791
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library