YVONNE KOOLMATRIE: THE APPROACH
Weaving is vital to Ngarrindjeri culture, it sustains us.
At a workshop in the early 1980s with Aunty Dorothy Kartinyeri, I was introduced to the
traditional methods of weaving sedge rushes (Lepidosperma canescens). This type of sedge grows
along the Coorong and Murray River in Ngarrindjeri country and so weaving is linked to the
river and its health – when the river suffers, the sedge grass is harder to find; when it
flourishes, so do the rushes. The river, the Coorong, the sea and the lake are the four waters of
the Ngarrindjeri and are all connected. Weaving is vital to Ngarrindjeri culture, it sustains
us.
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