Passport cover

A resident from the Indigenous Hospitality House (IHH) was moving home to the UK. When you're moving house you want to travel light and this gift could be both practical and serve as a reminder of her time here in Australia, making it through a difficult experience of the pandemic, and celebrate her love of all animals by having indigenous fabric on the inside and cute animals on the outside. The indigenous fabric was designed by Maureen Hudson Nampajimpa:

This painting represents the travels of many groups of women during Tjukurpa in a region known as Yarrungunyi, on Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu. All of the different "skin" groups are represented, their camp sites being the circles, and the connecting lines the route of their journeys of creation. This is my mother's country.

The label has the words: "Oh, the places you'll go", the title of a book by Dr Seuss. While I was a member of a community called Urban Seed it was a tradition that, when you left, this book was read aloud and a copy gifted to you, to honour what you were going towards. 

I made a second passport cover for a friend Susan - her passport had the same indigenous fabric inside, and the outside was tui (a NZ native-bird) sitting in a flowering harakeke. In Maori culture, the tui is associated with life fulfillment, confidence, and spiritual harmony. We wish all these things for her as she goes home to Aotearoa after living in Australia for many years.

Sometimes the story of where "home" is exactly can be complicated. Where is home for you? What are you going towards?

We do markets so it's hard to keep images current. Get in touch to discover what we have on hand or we're happy to talk about colours and themes that suit your recipient.