Suitable for: Clothing, curtains, lampshades, tablecloths, craft, soft furnishings, light upholstery.

This iconic design by Sonia Namarnyilk, is a four screen design that is so beautiful that it is often used for wall panels, and was created over 3 years during intensive textile design workshops with Bobbie Ruben.
Yawkyawk is a word from the Aboriginal Kunwinjku language, meaning ‘young woman’ and ‘young woman spirit being’.

Sometimes compared to the European notion of mermaids, yawkyawks are usually depicted with the tails of fish. They have long hair, associated with trailing blooms of algae, typically found in Arnhem Land streams and rock pools.

Hand Printed by Publisher Textiles (Four unique screens) from Bábbarra Women’s Centre.

From the early days, Bábbarra Women’s Centre has supported the lives of Aboriginal women in the community of Maningrida and on surrounding homelands, enabling local women to develop and run women-centred enterprises that support healthy and sustainable livelihoods.

Purchase of fabric directly supports the artist.

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