Basket | Katherine Coulthard | Tjanpi Desert Weavers meta-science-week-25 Designed in Japan

Designed in Japan

* we do recommend washing them in-between wears of course :-)

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A study in quiet elegance

Basket | Katherine Coulthard | Tjanpi Desert Weavers meta-science-week-25 Designed in JapanThis vibrantly hued woven basket has been handmade by Katherine Coulthard, an artist from the community of Finke, in the Northern Territory. Weaving with fibre in this way has become a fundamental part of Central and Western desert culture and draws on the traditional practice of making manguri rings a ring worn on the head made of grasses and cloth. Here we see traditional weaving techniques re framed using a mix of traditional and contemporary