A program in Papua New Guinea is helping poor women use a traditional hand-weaving technique to make money and promote PNG culture overseas. It is helping turn Papua New Guinea's traditional shoulder ...

In Papua New Guinea, the bilum is among the most familiar objects of daily life. It is carried through markets and villages, classrooms and hospitals, offices and homes - holding food, clothes, books, ...

Bilum weaving is a key part of Papua New Guinean culture — and the heart of a new children's book. It's also important representation, explained The Perfect Bilum's author Ranu James, who remembers ...

Here’s a truth for our tumultuous times: small actions lead to bigger actions, which can (slowly) make a big difference. It’s something textile designer Caroline Sherman realised in 2015 when she ...

The boutique workshop in Port Moresby hosts a group of women who specialise in intricately lacing plant fibres together to make the roomy pouches known as bilums, a symbol of Indigenous pride. The ...

Caroline Sherman’s Among Equals store in Sydney’s Paddington is a scene of technicolour wonder. Hanging off hooks fixed to bamboo poles that stretch to the ceiling are rows of neon-bright and ...

Large bilum (bag) made of acrylic yarn. Blue with white horizontal stripes and black and white ziigzag (?) motif. Single handle. Long fringe along the sides and attached to one side. Donor notes: ...