Natural Fibre Bilum Bag

$150.00 AUD

By Project Two Mile

This bilum bag is hand-woven from 100% natural fibre sourced from the bark of a special tree from the surrounding vegetation.
Dyed using wild berries, fruits and roots.
The process of making a natural fibre bilum is painstaking and takes many weeks.
Shrub barks are beaten into loose stripes and are dried in the sun.
The dried strips are then twisted by placing the fibres on the weaver's thigh and are rolled in a backward and forward motion with their hands to form long threads.
The threads are then woven into bilums using a traditional weaving technique.
Bilums are very versatile and expandable.
Each bilum has a story and the patterns are a visual language and authentic to the women who weave them.

These bilums help to support the local weavers and their families to have a stable income.