Tjanpi Desert Weavers - Learn to Weave Kit

$59.95
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Ever wanted to learn to weave a basket of your own? The Learn to Weave kit includes everything you'll need to get startedPlease note the raffia bundles will vary in colour combination from kit to kit.

Learn to Weave Kit includes: 

  • 1 x natural raffia bundle
  • 3 x coloured raffia bundles
  • 1 x industrial sail makers needle

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, working with women in the remote Central and Western desert regions who earn an income from contemporary fibre art. Tjanpi (meaning grass in Pitjantjatjara language) represents over 400 Anangu/Yarnangu women artists from 26 remote communities on the NPY lands.

Tjanpi artists use native grasses to make spectacular contemporary fibre art, weaving beautiful baskets and sculptures and displaying endless creativity and inventiveness. Originally developing from the traditional practice of making manguri rings, working with fibre in this way has become a fundamental part of Central and Western desert culture.