Join Kaurna Woman Elaine and learn to weave creating your own unique piece. Elaine shares her knowledge to begin, to add and to complete a woven piece. Experience not only a cultural custom but also the mediative state weaving provides in the tranquil surroundings of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
Elaine is a Kaurna- Nurungga woman, taught by an Elder many years ago, and feels weaving is an experience that connects her to country in a tangible way.
Weaving links to country, to place, and to time. There are stories and memories woven into each piece - they each become a time piece.
Elaine can trace her family back to colonial days, her family has looked after this country for 2,500 generations of grandmothers continuous care. One of her grandmothers, Kudnartu was the first SA Aboriginal woman be recognised as legally married in 1848 under British law, and she was also the first Aboriginal woman to become a land owner in the Clare Valley.
In 2003 Wellington Square was renamed Wellington Square/Kudnartu to honour Elaine's grandmother.