Flying Fox Fabrics products – only at Songlines
Songlines is the home of Flying Fox Fabrics. In fact, it’s the only place in Australia where you can see the full range. Come in and browse our unique bags, purses, cushion covers and more made from fabrics printed in Australia. New stock arrives regularly.
Olga kindly agreed to be photographed with her Delia bag in Ikuntji Artists fabric designed by Mavis Marks
History of Flying Fox Fabrics
Flying Fox Fabrics was established in 2019 by Felicity Wright after more than 30 years working in and with remote community art centres and Indigenous Australian artists. It came out of a project she facilitated for 6 years for Injalak Arts in Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) from 2013. Following a two year Australian Volunteers International placement as a Business Management Adviser in Phnom Penh from 2010-12 she forged partnerships with key disability ‘handicraft’ organisations in Cambodia. Felicity then began taking small amounts of Aboriginal designed and printed fabrics to Cambodia where the partners made accessories. The products were beautifully made and limited edition so they quickly found an appreciative audience.
Felicity with her Australia Post Local Business Hero poster from 2022
Because all of Flying Fox Fabrics products are made in small batches and very limited editions, coming into Songlines is a real treat.
How to buy Flying Fox Fabrics products online
Can’t come into Songlines? We stock some Flying Fox Fabrics purses and bags in our online store HERE and also cushion covers: HERE
The fantastic range of Papulankutja Artists fabrics, printed by Next State Print in Melbourne and produced under license can be seen HERE.
Where else can you get Flying Fox Fabrics products?
Felicity collaborates with art centres and makes products on demand for art centres where they supply the fabric. In the last two years Flying Fox Fabrics made a number of bags and accessories for Ikuntji Artists in Haasts Bluff in Central Australia, Bula’bula Arts in Ramingining in Arnhem Land and Papulankutja Artists in the Ngaanyatjara Lands in WA. Their product ranges can be purchased directly from them at the art centre, at Art Fairs or online.