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Indigenous master weaver Glenda Nicholls preserving cultural practices on a grand scale – ABC News
When Glenda Nicholls started making traditional fishing nets she was told it wasn’t women’s work. Now her massive weaving is hanging in the entrance of one of…
When Indigenous artist Glenda Nicholls began making fishing nets using the traditional weaving techniques she had learned from her mother, she was told women do not make fish nets.
It was a moment in the master weaver’s life that could have thrown her off course.
But then she was given some advice from her father.
Go out and do what you want to do, he told her.
“Don’t stay in the box.”
Nicholls has lived by those words and it shows in the boldness of the elaborately hand-woven, sculptural artworks…
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