Celebrate indigenous Australian culture through your textile projects, with this colourful Warlukurlangu Priscilla Napurrurla Herbert Desert Fringe-Rush Dreaming Printed 112 cm Cotton Fabric. This fabric is ideal for quilting and patchwork projects, or making items such as scrunchies, headbands, bookbags, aprons, oven mitts and toiletries bags. This material is composed of 100% cotton and supplied in a 112 cm width. Spotlight has a beautiful range of fabrics, manchester and home décor items featuring amazing artwork by the talented indigenous peoples creating with Warlukurlangu, Artists of Yuendumu. Find the perfect piece for your home, in-store or online. Desert Fringe-Rush Dreaming by Priscilla Napurrurla Herbert This Jukurrpa belongs to women of the Nakamarra/Napurrurla subsections and Jakamarra/Jupurrurla men. This Dreaming is associated with a place called Jaralypari, north of Yuendumu. Lukarrara (desert fringe-rush [Fimbristylis oxystachya & Fimbristylis eremophila]) is grass with an edible seed. The seeds are traditionally ground on a large stone (‘ngatinyanu’) with a smaller stone (‘ngalikirri’) to make flour. This flour is mixed with water (‘ngapa’) to make damper cakes that can be cooked and eaten. In Warlpiri, traditional painting iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements. Large concentric circles often represent the site of Jaralypari and also the seed-bearing grass Lukurrara. ‘U’ shapes can depict the Karnta (women) collecting ‘lukarrara.’ Straight lines are frequently used to portray seeds that fall to the ground and are collected by women using their ‘parrajas’ (wooden food carriers) and ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks).
