Basket - Elsie Taylor
This unique weaved basket is made from Tjanpi (grass), acrylic wool and raffia by Elsie Taylor from Tjanpi Desert Weavers. With a super-functional handle, and a stunning deep red-purple centre, this bright basket is so eye-catching!
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a signatory to the Indigenous Art Code, is a dynamic social enterprise of the NPY Women's Council. Tjanpi (meaning 'dry grass') supports Aboriginal women living in remote Central and Western desert communities to create contemporary fibre art.
When collecting desert grasses (minarri, wangurnu and yirlintji), women visit sacred sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families, and teach children about country. Grass is bound with wool, string or raffia and combined with yirnirnti (red seeds of the bat-wing coral tree) and wipiya (emu feathers).
Size: 23D x 22H cm approx.
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