Fabrics
Tiwi Design has been printing textiles since the early 1980's. The purpose built textile printing workshop is run by Osmond Kantilla, a master printer with over 20 years practical experience of printing textiles at Tiwi Design along with his assistant Alan Kerinauia.
Osmond supervises the translation of original artworks onto screens and manages the production of the hand printed fabrics. Osmond has designed screens himself and enjoys the artistic process of mixing colours and matching them to fabrics and designs.
Tiwi Design currently has three 13 metre long tables which are used to hand silkscreen print the textiles, t-shirts and t-towels. We have a commercial oven in which to cook the fabric and set the water based inks.
Tiwi Design produces approximately 500 metres of fabric a week during the dry season and gives daily demonstrations of the screen printing process to visiting tourists.
Fabric - Muputi
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MUPUTI DESIGN Price listed is per metre - select the number of metres required in...
Fabric - Pamijini Design
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PAMIJINI DESIGN Artist: Francine Tungatalum Francine created several designs at Tiwi Design in the late 1970’s.Pamijini...
Fabric - Sandpiper Design
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SANDPIPER DESIGN Artist: Bede Tungatalum - c 1973 Sand piper is a little bird that feeds...
Fabric - Snake
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SNAKE Artist: Giovanni Tipungwuti - mid 1970s The general term for venomous or cheeky snakes are...
Fabric - Stone Axe
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STONE AXE Artist: Danny Munkara - c 1978 This artwork was based on an early Tiwi...
Fabric - Tiwi Bird
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TIWI BIRD DESIGN Price listed is per metre - select the number of metres required...
Fabric - Tuninga
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TUNINGA Artist: Natalie Tungatalum One day I went hunting with my husband at Tarntipi. It was...
Fabric - Wanarringa Sun
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WANARRINGA SUN Artist: Bede Tungatalum - c 1974 Wanarringa is one of the Tiwi skin groups.
Fabric - Yam (Kulama)
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TUNINGA Artist: Natalie Tungatalum One day I went hunting with my husband at Tarntipi. It was...
Fabric - Yuwurli
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YUWURLI DESIGN Price listed is per metre - select the number of metres required in...
Fabric-Armband
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ARMBAND Artist: Marie Josette Orsto The tiwi wear armband during ceremony. My dad Declan Apuatimi taught...
Jilamara Fabric Stretch Cotton
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JILAMARA DESIGN Price listed is per metre - select the number of metres required in...
Jilamara Heavy Cotton Fabric - Brown & Green on Beige
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Jilamara Heavy Cotton Fabric - Brown on Yellow
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Pandanas Linen Fabric - Navy on Light Pink
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PANDANAS DESIGN Price listed is per metre - select the number of metres required in...
