Bengaluru, Aug. 21 -- A collaboration between Indigenous artists in Australia and traditional artisans in India seems to be helping preserve more than 70 textile designs that carry stories passed down through generations.

According to the Centre for Australia-India Relations (CAIR), the project brought together the Babbarra Women's Centre in Maningrida, Northern Territory, and Tharangini Studio in Bengaluru, India. The two women-led organisations worked together to turn Babbarra's lino designs into hand-carved woodblocks.

The Babbarra Women's Centre has used lino printing for decades to put ancestral stories on textiles. However, the hot and humid climate of Arnhem Land caused some of the lino prints to decay, creating a need to preserv...