Incorporate true Australian culture into your handmade textiles with this Warlukurlangu Vaughan Springs Dreaming 112 cm Cotton Fabric. This fabric is ideal for quilting and patchwork projects, or making items such as scrunchies, headbands, bookbags, aprons and toiletries bags. This material is composed of 100% cotton and supplied in a 112 cm width, sold by the metre. 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.
Pikilyi Jukurrpa by Ursula Napangardi Hudson
Pikilyi is a large and important waterhole and natural spring near Mount Doreen Station. Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) tells of the home of two rainbow serpents, ancestral heroes who lived together as man and wife. The woman 'rainbow serpent' was of the Napanangka skin group, the man was a Japangardi. This was a taboo relationship contrary to Warlpiri religious law. Women of the Napanangka and Napangardi subsection sat by the serpents, picking lice off them. For this service, the two serpents allowed the women to take water from the springs at Pikilyi. This was because the serpents were the 'kirda', or ceremonial owners, for that country. The spirits of these two rainbow serpents are still at Pikilyi today. This Dreamings belongs to the women and men of the Japanangka/Napanangka and Japangardi/Napangardi skin groups.
