Selling Yarns 2

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Demonstrations

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Demonstrations are free of charge and registration is not required.

Sunday 8 March

  1. Stitching with meadow hay with Nalda Searles
  2. Lao Silk Reeling with Bobby Vosinthavong, Lao Sericulture Company Mulberries label and Kelly Leonard
  3. Screen printing on fabric with Lyndy Delian, Megalo Access Arts
  4. Traditional spinning with Impiti Winton and Niningka Lewis, Ernabella Arts Inc.
  5. Jawun weaving with Maureen Beeron Bayngu and Daniel Beeron Galaman, Girringun Aboriginal Corporation

Demonstration 1: Stitching with meadow hay

With Nalda Searles
At the National Museum of Australia
Sunday 8 March, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

This program is free and is suitable for beginners through to experienced makers. Children over 10 years old, accompanied by a parent, are welcome to take part. Come and participate for an hour or the entire day.

Nalda Searles is a visual artist specialising in fibre and textiles. She has extensive experience of working with Indigenous communities and of Indigenous fibre and textile production. Nalda has exhibited at galleries in Western Australia, the eastern states and in Japan, Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, Spain, France, USA and UK.

Participants will learn how to stitch together meadow hay to make any kind of baskets or sculptural forms.

Participants are asked to bring torn rags and wools along with any other materials they may like to bring to incorporate with the hay, ie. sticks, stones, bones, beads, seeds, buttons, feathers, shells, metal bits, plastic bits, wirey things etc. Participants are also asked to bring a large needle, any sort of stitching thread and scissors.

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Demonstration 2: Lao Silk Reeling

With Bobby Vosinthavong, Lao Sericulture Company Mulberries label and Kelly Leonard
At the National Museum of Australia
Sunday 8 March, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Mulberries is an environmentally and culturally sustainable business operating from the farm in the remote north of Lao PDR. The business employs local Indigenous people to work in traditional and contemporary ways to produce high quality silk products.

Bobby Vosinthavong, Lao Silk and Craft, will provide participants and visitors with demonstrations and an interactive program in reeling silk fibers from cocoons using the innovative two-in-one wooden swift and bobbin winder tool.

Visitors will have the opportunity to experience the process of separating silk fibres from the cocoons, reeling and spinning silk fibers using hand crafted tools indigenous to Lao culture and will reel and spin silk fibres themselves. This experience will give participants some understanding and knowledge of the techniques and tools used by Mulberries, Lao PDR in creating a spectrum of silk yarns and textiles.

The handcrafted reeling tools, silk cocoons and equipment required to demonstrate the process will be supplied.

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Demonstration 3: Screen printing on fabric

With Lyndy Delian, Megalo Access Arts
At the National Museum of Australia
Sunday 8 March, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Lyndy Delian is an Aboriginal Australian woman, originally from Victoria, who now resides in the ACT and has raised seven children. She is an accomplished visual artist, writer and musician and a founding member of the ACT Indigenous Textile Artists Group.

Lyndy will demonstrate screenprinting on fabric.

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Demonstration 4: Traditional spinning

With Impiti Winton and Niningka Lewis, Ernabella Arts Inc.
At the National Museum of Australia
Sunday 8 March, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Impiti Winton, an award winning spinner and Beanie maker who spins beautifully fine yarn from raw sheep wool and Niningka Lewis, weaver extroadinaire who is featured in the exhibition ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art, will demonstrate spinning wool using the traditional spindle. This spindle that they will use is featured in the Ernabella Arts Inc. logo.

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Demonstration 5: Jawun weaving

With Maureen Beeron Bayngu and Daniel Beeron Galaman, Girringun Aboriginal Corporation
At the National Museum of Australia
Sunday 8 March, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Maureen Beeron is a Girramay woman of the Murray River area in Far North Queensland. She is a weaver of wungarr traditional lawyer cane eel traps, jawun lawyer cane bicornual baskets and is skilled in traditional string making using bark bumbil.

Daniel Beeron Galaman is a Girramay man of the Murray River area in Far North Queensland. Daniel is a weaver of mindi , a small basket made from grass used to carry message sticks and small objects for trading and travelling, and jawun.

Maureen and Daniel will demonstrate the weaving process of jawun, the lawyer cane basket which was used for carrying bushfoods and babies, catching fish and to hold rainforest nuts and seeds.

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