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Aboriginal Art is one of the more ancient traditional arts in the world, going back approximately 50,000 years. In early days, Aboriginals did cave painting, rock painting, and sand or ground painting. The newer generations use acrylic paints on canvas to portray their Dreamtime. These Aboriginal artworks are sought after not only in Australia but worldwide. According to Aboriginal mythology, Dreamtime is the era when the world was dark. There was nothing on earth; the soil was soft. This was when the forefathers sprang up from underneath the soil and started building most of the requirements for their needs and that of future generations. They built mountains, rivers, waterholes, trees, and light gardens.

Dreamtime is not a religion or a culture – it is a way or philosophy of living. Body painting, corroboree, men’s business, women’s business, and other cultural practices are strictly obeyed by the Aboriginal people. Initially a nomadic people, Aboriginals collected their food from nature, by hunting and gathering. However, they never do anything to hoard or spoil the nature of them environment. They honour their ancestral lands and the teachings from those ancestors.

Art has always been a medium to express, communicate, empathize and reciprocate. That is why art is often has the power to move you, resonate and can even be cathartic. What we now perceive as art stems from our own primitive communication formats, especially the native Australian Aboriginals. Their primitive lifestyles have allowed them to successfully hand down this archaic language even to this generation. And this unaltered art, still captures and sparks curiosity in any audience. With every painting comes a new story, a story about the artist, an insight in the simple life, an effortless manifestation of their fears, frustrations and desires.

M&S Textiles have had the privilege to work with these creative artists in making their stories heard. Selecting designs yearly from our artist, is always challenging, with versatility in their art, the colours and more importantly their stories. We, at M&S Textiles, value the artists need and how they want to be perceived. In combining their memorizing with art along with quality fabrics, we are able to immortalize their stories and allow our customers to be voices of the stories that comes from the land under.

30 products found in M & S Textiles

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Goanna Dreaming - Green - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Indigenous dot painting in colours of olive, green, purple, pink, black green, depicting Desert flowers MST1007 DESB
Desert Flower - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Goanna Lizard pictured in colour purple, black and white background MGV - Whispers of the Valley Fabrics
Man & Goanna - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Bush Plum Trees depicted in Indigenous dot painting in colours of pruple, red, blue, black, white, yellow  BDUP
Bush Dreamings of Utopia - Tania Price - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Picture depicts Dreaming of Bush Food Witchetty Grub, Kangaroo Path, Long Neck Turtles and Hone Ants Waterhole, Flowers in colours of Green, Purple, Yellow, Black and White through Aboriginal Dot Painting and Dreamtime Storytelling - Whispers of the Valley Fabrics
Dreaming in One - Bradley Stafford - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre

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Home Country - Tamara Murray May - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Yallaroo - June Smith - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Gathering Bush Tucker - Gloria Doolan - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Rain Dreaming - Audrey Nungarrai - M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre
Women Collecting Bush Food Depicted in Aboriginal design Blue Colouring
Women Collecting Bush Food
  • $19.95 per metre
Picture depicts Dreamtime Corroboree from Indigenous Aboriginals Australia with colours of the Rainbow using spirals, dots, leaves, fruits and bug shapes to draw the picture - Whispers of the Valley Fabric
Corroboree Black - Donna McNamara
  • $19.95 per metre
Picture depicts Seeds fallen on the ground with a black background, seeds represented by yellow, brown, white Grey colouring,  Aboriginal Dot Painting and Dreamtime Storytelling - Whispers of the Valley Fabrics
Fallen Seeds - Gracie Morton
  • $19.95 per metre
Men & Women Hunting - Kerry Pearce
  • $19.95 per metre
Tree Snake Gathering
  • From $5.95
Summertime Rainforest - Heather Kennedy
  • From $5.95
Spirit Place - Bernadene Wallace
  • From $5.95
Aborginial Dreamtime Dot Painting depicting regeneration of flora and plants after Bushfires in colours Pink, Purple, Black, White
Regeneration - Heather Kennedy -M & S Textiles
  • $19.95 per metre

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Akuna Dreaming - Purple - Agnes Rubuntija - M&S Textiles
  • $24.95
  • $19.95 per metre