Wiradjuri Designs
Wiradjuri Designs creates sustainable fashion, textile, home furnishing and homeware products utilising Indigenous-inspired designs. The products are imbued with cultural, social and environmental significance, integrating quality craftsmanship and elegant design, to meet current vision of aesthetics.
Classes have begun to engage the local Wiradjuri women, to learn the skills necessary to create fashion, home furnishing and homeware products.
The products intertwine the knowledge and wisdom of indigenous culture with modern ideas of beauty, utilising technology to create a refined end piece.
Currently the designs are broken into two classifications; Indigenous Designs and Stylised Designs.
The Indigenous Designs utilise traditional colours and are more figurative than the Stylised set. The folio of figurative works currently includes two designs:
• Emu/Kangaroo: two animals central to Wiradjuri culture
• Frog: a symbol of fertility and abundance
Other figurative works may emerge as time passes and the business progresses. These could include the Sand Lizard and the totem animal of the Kalarie people.
The Stylised Designs are created with bright colours and the range so far is as follows:
• Waterhole: portraying the waterhole, a natural landscape feature central to the traditional way of life of the Wiradjuri people. Visually, the flower-like shape is particularly appealing and lies directly within mainstream visions of pleasing aesthetics.
• Tracks: depicting the tracks of the inhabitants of the Indigenous community
• Dreaming: portraying the land and its diverse environment
Printing Specifications
The Stylised Designs are created as repeat patterns 50 x 50cm, to be printed three times across 150cm wide fabric. The Indigenous Designs are created as half width patterns 75 x 50cm, to be printed on 150cm wide fabric. All designs have three colour ways.
Product Mix
The designs will be used in a variety of product creation: soft furnishings, interiors, furniture, homewares, stationery, manchester, fashion wear, fashion accessories, uniforms.
