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Noongar Country, Wetland Glimpses Quilt Set

Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Resources

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Roots and Seeds designed by Rosemary Pitjara; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting. 600 x 400 mm...

Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Conservation

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Possum Land and Water Dreaming designed by Heather Kennedy; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting. 600 x 400 mm...

Draining the Swamps

Materials and techniques: Eco printed muslin using casuarina and callistemon foliage; hand and machine stitched. 600 x 400 mm...

Maali (Swan)

Materials and techniques: Fabric collage using silk dupion, commercial printed cotton and organza. Machine and hand stitched. 600 x 400 mm...

Bottoms Up!!

Materials and techniques: Hand dye fabrics, fabric paint, organza, silk waste, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, free motion quilting. 600 x 400 mm...

Floodplain

Materials and techniques: Silk and cotton fabric, bobbin work, hand and machine embroidery, free motion quilting. 600 x 400 mm...

Underwater Windows

Materials and techniques: Hand dyed fabrics and papers, sun dyeing hand painting and colouring, embroidery, free cut machine pieced, hand quilted. 600 x 400 mm...

Wetland Windows

Materials and techniques: Hand dyed fabric and paper, sun dyeing, hand painting and colouring, embroidery, free cut machine pieced, hand quilted....

Wetland Spiders, A Weaver of Gold and a Wolf

Materials and techniques: Commercial and hand dyed cotton fabric, polyester basket braid, ribbon braid, florists wire, velvet over poly-wadding, beads, rhinestones, hand dyed muslin, bridal tulle, metallic and cotton thread. Machine appliqué, machine piecing, wash-away embroider...

What’s for dinner?

Materials and techniques: Layered cotton, silk and silk paper with appliquéd Lutradur, satin, felt and cotton fabrics. Embellished with hemp, cotton and polyester braids and ribbon, hand and machine embroidery and beading. Acrylic paint and Inktense pencils. Machine quilted dur...

Wyan the White-faced Heron and Gilgies

Materials and techniques: Background fabric botanically dyed using eucalyptus leaves. Hand dyed cotton gauze, sari silk strips, organza and tulle. Hand embroidery and appliqué. Machine quilted on a domestic machine....

Cardacut the Cormorant with Eucalyptus and Melaleuca

Materials and techniques: Background fabric botanically dyed with eucalyptus leaves. Melaleuca fabric designed by Lorraine Canestrini, digitally printed. Merino wool felt, cotton, gauze, organza and tulle. Hand embroidery and appliqué. Machine quilted. ...

Waterholes and Tracks

Materials and techniques: Commercial plain cloth. Abstract design freehand drawn with fabric crayons. Hand stitched with commercial threads....

Bibool (Freshwater Paperbark)

Materials: Hand dyed papers. Hand dyed salvaged and commercial cotton and silk fabrics. Silk Rod. Crochet doily. Purchased decorative yarn....

Djeran Abundance

Materials and techniques: silk fabric, machine pieced and layered, machine embroidery. 400 x 600 mm...

Bura (Big Swamp) at Dusk

Materials and techniques: Silk raw-edged covered in synthetic tulle; hand and machine embroidery using silk and cotton; machine quilting. 400 x 600 mm...

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