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Shops NORTHERN TERRITORY & NORFOLK ISLAND

                                              

NORFOLK ISLAND

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OPENING HOURS AND OTHER INFORMATION MAY HAVE CHANGED!

 

AATUTI ART


Norfolk Village.

PHONE:     (6723)23669 Fax (6723) 22889

BLOG:    http://aatutiart.blogspot.com.au/

Jan sells 2.5m lengths of fabric which have been designed and hand-painted, hand-dyed by her artist daughter Sue Pearson. These fabrics really are lovely and sell for Aus$43 each.

Jan sells original works and prints in the art gallery section of her shop also locally designed and handprinted T-Shirts and cards.

Yes, Jan does mail orders. She is also a quilter


  

REFLECTIONS


 Main shopping block in Taylors Road next to the Scottish Shop

SHOP HOURS: 9:30 - 4:30-1/2 days Wednesday and Saturday

Closed Sunday

Closed for lunch 12:30 to about 2PM

 OWNER: Elizabeth Nowell,

Now carries a different range of giftware plus much wider range of patchwork and haberdashery.


 
 

CRAFTS AND THINGS

 

The Village (past Aatuti Art)

OWNER:      Dennie Wong

A range for several crafts including P&Q, Knitting, Cross stitch, Scrapbooking

1/2 days Wednesday and Saturday

Closed for lunch 12:30 to about 2:00

Closed Sunday  

 

Report with no shop names!


There was one very nice gift-cum-sewing shop with a lot of things from the US, UK etc., including lots of quilting books and cloth dolls of the "country" type but sadly (being a mad dollmaker in my "other life") I didn't find any dolls made on Norfolk .

 

I found some Liberty fabric in another shop, the fine kind, but not much to choose from and it was $22.50 a metre, so I left it there. On reflection I think there was some plain Liberty too but I can't remember how much that.

 
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NORTHERN TERRITORY


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DARWIN


DRAGON FLY FABRICS


Alawa shopping Centre. Alawa Cres Alawa. Darwin 5792

PHONE:    08 8948 0691

FAX:    08 8948 0694

EMAIL:    dragonfabric@bigpond.com

WEBSITE:   http://www.dragonfabric.com.au

They offer a wide range of fabrics including:

Indigenous and Australiana prints ( a great range), Japanese prints, batiks, florals, novelties. Collections by a variety of designers and distributors

Classes, workshops, books, patterns and haberdashery.



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PAPERBARK WOMAN

Now just a web address

EMAIL:    paperbarkwoman@pobox.com

WEBSITE:      www.paperbarkwoman.com.au

Now has a website where all fabrics can now be viewed -

33 fabrics from Nambooka (Vic artist) and 10 from Audrey Napanangka (NT artist) and 1 bush banana (NT artist) through M&S Textiles

Also in stock are 36 Territoriana prints plus patches of another 5 other now out of stock prints.

Many hand printed fabrics and individual handprinted square patches.

Happy to receive e-mails, phone, fax and mail enquiries.

Paperbark Woman is an Aboriginal owned and operated business and we give 5% discount on fabrics to patchwork club members who show their club membership cards and also to senior citizens.

2) A business specialising in Australian Aboriginal fabric and clothing. She has mail order and can be contactedon her web site

Lenore does have a nice - but small - selection. To be fair, some of her fabrics are available elsewhere, as she too gets some fabrics from Sham at Books and Things. But she also has some screen printed stuff from Bathurst Island - which is glorious - and some other NT stuff that I hadn't seen. She had some other fabrics - the moss green with mustard overprint - which were NSW, and glorious... She only had a small selection of desert fabrics from Alice Springs, but more was coming


 

NUNGALINYA COLLEGE

DUNNILLI ART

Nungalinya College School of Textile Art

Dripstone Rd, Casuarina

PHONE:     08 89271044

PHONE: (08) 8920 7500

This is an enterprise workshop for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - some very interesting fabric gets produced.

They have an outlet for fabric made by the Aboriginal design students. I talked them into selling me some scraps from their bin, and was delighted with the fabric I was able to get. Very unique and exciting.



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KATHERINE



PINS, NEEDLES AND THREADS

102 Third St

PHONE:08 89721121



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ALICE SPRINGS


AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL FABRICS

Located in Gregory Tce. a few doors from the Todd Mall

PHONE:      089526163.

WEBSITE:   aboriginalfabrics@bigpond.com

OWNER:  Dianne May

Great aboriginal fabric .They have the fabric designed and printed and it was beautiful,



CAAMA SHOP

101 Todd St

PHONE:     89529202

Aboriginal fabrics


ALICE TRADERS SEWING CENTRE

2 Schwartz Cres

PHONE: (089) 52 2450

FAX: (089) 52 2671