Manme hotsell (Bush foods) design by Selina Nadjowh on silk

Hand screen printed silk (138cm wide)
The design is printed on "Princess" silk. This is high quality, wide silk. It is light but has good body and high sheen.
The base silk is iridescent crimson with a violet sheen, the ink is metallic gold. Perfect for formal wear!

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All our fabrics are designed and hand-printed by our members (Aboriginal artists) in our workshop in Gunbalanya in West Arnhem Land, NT. The designer is paid a royalty for every metre printed.

The designer:
Selina comes from a family of artists. Her father, Timothy Nabegeyo, is a well known senior man and painter and her mother, Audrey Nadjowh (dec), was a senior fibre artist. Selina is multi-talented; a weaver, painter, fabric designer and printer. She is currently working on illustrating a children's picture book.

The design:
The artist has depicted various types of manme (generic word for wild plant foods known as ‘bush foods'). Many wild foods are still regularly gathered around Gunbalanya and outstations in West Arnhem Land and knowledge of their names and uses is an important part of the Kunwinjku traditional knowledge and teachings to young people. The two roots that can be seen are different yam species, karrbarda (long yam) and hotsell mankongkong (another species). The feathery leaves belong to mankodjbang, a billabong plant with edible roots and the large flowers are manbardmo, the blooms of water lilies. These will eventually form edible seeds, which were once a staple carbohydrate food.