Each bilum bag from PNG is a woman's story and the designs are a visual language

by CLARE PRESS - www.smh.com.au

"Why does anyone buy a beautiful bilum bag?" says Caroline Sherman. "It's not just to put your wallet and keys in, is it?" True, that. The allure of the covetable fashion accessory is all tied up with status and desire. I've "invested in" bilum bags because they were good quality, or irresistibly pretty, but also because magazines assured me this was the latest "it-bag". I once bought a ridiculously expensive clutch because it matched my new shoes.

If Sherman has her way, there will be a lot more Australian women buying the bilum bags from her Among Equals label. Perhaps they will do so for the reasons above but there is a better one, she says: "These bilum bags can change the lives of the PNG women who make them. What put it in perspective for me was when I found out that one of the weavers we work with was able to buy walls for her house with the payments she received. She literally had no walls. It's quite common to have no electricity and no running water in the areas we're working in."

Possum fur bilum made by a woman from Tambul, Western Highlands Province.
Image: Elizabeth Bonshek / 2007.

Among Equals is a collection of Bilum - hand-woven Papua New Guinean bags "of deep cultural significance" made the traditional way by women in the mountainous region around Goroka. Back in Sydney the bags are embellished, or as Sherman describes it, "given a contemporary twist", with tassels and painted wooden beads. She does this bit herself. "I spend a lot of time on the floor making pompoms."

A textiles designer by trade, Sherman was wandering around a government trade fair in 2014 when she "saw this flash of amazing colour and pattern bilums from PNG". It was a group of indigenous women from PNG demonstrating traditional weaving techniques. "I sat with them for hours, I was so excited by their craft. I'd never heard of a Bilum."

"PNG is our closest neighbour," she says. You can fly there in an hour from Cairns. "But like most Australians, I'd never been. All I knew was the war stuff, the Kokoda trail stories. In terms of design it was unchartered territory for me."

A "big-shot" bilum design made by a woman from Tambul, Western Highlands Province. The big-shot is one of the latest patterns or designs in the year 2016 and 2017.
Image: Bianca Barry / 2017.

Making several trips to educate herself and meet weavers, what Sherman discovered was that while PNG is resources rich, it's reliant on foreign investment and jobs for locals are scarce. It's common for women to be the main breadwinners.

In remote areas weaving and selling bilum bags is one of the only ways to make a buck, but without a sustainable market, sales often depend on the whim of tourists – and there are precious few of those in places like Goroka. In the patrilinial societies which abound here "they don't allow divorce and there are serious and endemic problems with domestic violence," says Sherman. "Rape is frighteningly common. Their worlds are complex and often violent and insecure." She figured a sustainable income could only help, and finding an Australian market, based on repeat business, was something she could contribute.

Sherman's initial idea was to commission her own designs, "but the bilum bags lost something that way. I realized is each bilum bag is a woman's story and the designs are a visual language."

A grandmother from PNG living in Sydney, Australia is making a bilum. Her design and patterns is a language of love to her grandchildren who would be using this bilum. Image: Arosame Wawe / 2017.

A year on, she sells them online and through small exhibitions – there's one in Sydney at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Paddington (art world philanthropist Gene Sherman is Caroline's mother-in- law). What the brand does is present these bilum bags to an international audience as artisanal luxury items, allowing Sherman to pay the weavers a premium. 

She runs Among Equals as a social enterprise, ploughing her profits back into weaving communities, which she works with through the government organisation like Pacific Island Trade and Invest (PTI). Her dream is to partner with a charity to build a workshop similar, in ethos if not perhaps in scope, to the one New York-based luxury brand Maiyet and not-for- profit outfit Nest has planned to improve working conditions for the silk weavers of Varanasi, India.

It's not about scale, she explains, but providing a safe, clean, well-equipped place that the weavers can call their own. "Among Equals can never be a production line. It takes the ladies weeks to make the bilum bags. It's a really grass roots process, it's slow, and that's why it's lovely."

PNG girls and women love their bilum bags. This photograph is a collection of bilums owned by a young girl displayed in her room wall. Image: Dante Bii / 2017. 

Not everyone in PNG is agrees. As the modern world encroaches on places like Goroka, slow can read as old-fashioned, and the younger generation tends to be less keen on learning traditional skills. Others feel protective over their craft and its heritage. But weavers like Florence Jaukae, who calls herself a Bilum fibre artist, are fearlessly reinventing the medium. The first time she sewed her Billum cloth into a dress, her peers thought she was at best off her rocker, at worst being unforgivably subversive. "Everybody would say 'Look at that! Is she all right?'" she said last year. 

"'A Bilum is something we carry our food in. Who is she to wear that?' So I was really breaking through customary beliefs.'" It worked.

Jaukae's designs have taken her as far as New York, where as part of an International Trade Commission program she worked with the students from Parsons and the London College of Fashion. On September 1-2, 12 local designers will have the chance to court global fashion when PNG holds a catwalk event called Runway in Port Moresby.

"We used to say 'global' in the fashion industry to mean London, Paris, New York, but that's an outdated view," says the event's official photographer Sandhya Dusk Devi Nand, a Sydney-based Fijian former model and TV presenter, who is a passionate advocate for ethical fashion.

Tourists with bilums in Goroka, Bird of Paradise Hotel. Image: Peter Kinjap / 2008.

"Our own region has so much to offer in terms of creativity and inspiration, there's a lot to get excited about here. Who is to say the next big fashion name won't come out of PNG? But also fashion can work as a form of feminism in the Pacific," she says.

"It can be a tool for expanding horizons, taking something that comes naturally to females - dressing up - plus creative skills they already have - sewing or weaving or printing fabric - to establish independence and sustainable business."

• Clare Press is a slow fashionista, and the author of Wardrobe Crisis, How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion.

PNG School girls in traditional attire and with their bilums. Every girl in contemporary PNG society loves a bilum bag. Image: Diikenz Dii Dykes / April,  2017.

Through only one woman, Florence Jaukae Kamel, the PNG bilum as turned into a fashion industry

Extracted from Pacific Women in Business (http://pacificwomeninbusiness.com.au)

For thousands of years, the art of weaving bilum – a bag made from dried fibre extracted from tree bark, animal fur, sisal or vine – has been passed down from one generation of Papua New Guinean women to the next. For these women bilum has always been part of their cultural heritage, creative identity and way of life.

For more than 12 years, Florence Jaukae Kamel has worked as an artist and designer, producing original works of bilum. For Florence, the tradition she learnt from her grandmother has always been part of her identity as a Papua New Guinean woman. As an artist, her inspiration has come from nature and her interest in fashion.

“I like dressing up and wanted to wear something that was different to what I was seeing on the streets of Goroka,” Florence said.
Initially she started attracting attention for her unique designs inspired by the colours and patterns of the carpet snake and Christmas beetle. But what really put her on the map of the international art world was her bold foray into making fashion garments from bilum.
“Making bilum into something wearable was creatively exciting for me and I’m very proud to see the women of PNG wearing bilum outfits,” said Florence.
It also became a great opportunity for personal and economic success. Florence’s designs were soon commissioned for high-profile events including charity fashion parades for the Red Cross and Salvation Army and the uniforms for PNG’s team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

As her own business, Jaukae Bilum Products, flourished, Florence wanted to share that success with less fortunate women in her community, and in 2003 established the Goroka Bilum Weavers Cooperative. Now supporting more than 50 female artisans, the Cooperative not only provides a source of income to supplement the seasonal cash crops many of the women rely on, but also much-needed medical and social support.
“Many of the women in our cooperative are HIV positive, homeless and/ or single mothers who really need support,” said Florence.
The mission of the cooperative aligned strongly with Florence’s work as a political and social activist campaigning for women’s rights. As one of the few women in PNG to be elected as a Local Level Government Councilor in 2002, Florence has worked hard to aid and assist mothers, and women in general, to earn an income for themselves.
“As a women’s leader in a male-dominated arena I have advocated strongly to reduce poverty, empower women, promote gender equity and stop violence against women. Through bilum I feel that I making a difference by helping women support themselves,” she said.

After appealing to the PNG Government for support in helping her find new markets for bilum – particularly in lucrative international markets – Florence conceived the idea for an international Bilum Festival.
With the aim to raise the profile amongst global audiences and generate sales for PNG’s bilum artists, the first inaugural Goroka Bilum Festival was held in 2009 in the week preceeding the Goroka Show to attract the attention of tourists attending one of the world’s largest tribal gatherings.

With the support of Pacific Islands Trade & Invest (PT&I), the event has grown from strength-to-strength and is internationally recognized as an important celebration of enduring indigenous artisanship. “Our main problem has always been marketing our products,” said Florence.
Through the support of PT&I’s Creative Arts program, PNG’s bilum industry has transformed into economic success for Highland communities. PT&I Sydney saw the opportunity for bilum to be positioned in international markets as a high-end woven product and has worked tirelessly to provide financial, marketing and technical support, event management expertise and business linkages between artisans in PNG and international buyers.
“By investing resources in the creative arts sector, we are helping to place a commercial value on the traditional knowledge and cultural expressions of Pacific Islands communities such as PNG’s bilum weavers,” said Creative Arts Manager at PT&I’s Sydney Office, Ruth Choulai.

The provision of technical support, capacity building and training has also enabled the female artisans to embrace technology in a way that has reduced the time taken to produce each garment – and produce it to standards that appeal to export markets.
“Although there’s interest in our product at an international level, we still need to educate the market and get our product right so that it blends to their liking. By working with PT&I we have been promoted to markets in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United States that we would never have otherwise been exposed to,” said Florence.

The works of Goroka Bilum Weavers Cooperative are now on the walls of leading international galleries including the Australian National Museum in Sydney and the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane; and artists from the Cooperative have travelled as far as London and New York to mentor design students in their craft.

Lasses in bilum wear. Photo courtesy of Lovelyn Howard / March, 2017.

Beauty contestants in bilum wear. Image Credit: from Google, 2017.

Florence (right) with lassess in bilum wear. Image Credit: from Google, 2017.

Girls in bilum wear. Image Credit: from Google, 2017.

Florence (second from left) with girls in bilum wear. Image Credit: from Google, 2017.

A girl in bilum wear. Image Credit: Melanesian Way blog, 2017.

A mother and her daughter in bilum wear. Image Credit: Melanesian Way blog, 2017.

A girl in bilum wear. Image Credit: Facebook, 2017.

Emily Andrias on her Grade 12 graduation day she took on the bilum wear in 2016 at Anglimb Secondary School in Jiwaka Province. Photograph courtesy of Emily Andrias Aisa / March, 2017.

Emily in 2016 with her little aunty.
Image courtesy of Emily Andrias Aisa / March, 2017.

DWU students in bilum wear made by Jaukae Bilum Products in Madang. Image Credit: PNG Loop, 2017.

Simbu Provincial flag bilum wears. Photograph courtesy of Madfox Apo / March, 2017.

A lass with a baby in bilum wear. Photograph courtesy of Madfox Apo / March, 2017.

Girls in bilum wear for the graduation. Photograph courtesy of Marielisha Ilai / March, 2017.

Simbu Provincial flag bilum wear. Image courtesy of Madfox Apo / March, 2017.

Two girls in bilum wear in preparation for their graduation day. Image Credit: Dorothy Ketan Dodomo / March, 2017.

PNG Bilum products showcased in New Zealand

by GLORIA BAUAI - PNG Loop 

PNG Bilum products are being showcased at the Pasifika Festival which commenced today in New Zealand, Western Springs Lakeside Park.

This traditional product is among other Pacific Island cultures displayed at what is considered the biggest celebration of Pacific Island culture and heritage in the world.

The presence of the Bilum products was made possible by Pacific Trade & Invest (PT&I) NZ through its Pacific Path to Market programme.

It is a structured approach to helping businesses entering the New Zealand market.

It is a two day event which will stretch through the weekend from March 25 to 26.

The iconic Pasifika Festival also celebrates its 25th birthday so with free entry, there are more than 220 performance groups and 60,000 visitors expected.

While the bilum is gaining momentum overseas, in the highlands of PNG, it is a good sale for mothers when it comes a graduation day. While graduating on her Grade 12 graduation last year (2016), a Simbu lass put on this bilum dress on the day which was made by her aunty who makes bilums and sells. 

Pictured here with her sister baby in Simbu. Photo Courtesy of Madfox Apo. March 2017.

PNG bilum wear is finding its way into graduation events - it's a fashion with new trend

by EURALIA PAINE - Extracted from Keith Jackson's PNG Attitude blog 

When I am overseas and I see someone carrying a bilum, something uncharacteristic happens. I stop in my tracks and check the person up and down. It is the association with all things Papua New Guinean that stirs the familiar wistful feeling at the sight of a bilum on a stranger.

    The ethnic origin of the word bilum is unclear even though it is thought to be Melanesian. It is defined in the Jacaranda Dictionary as a carry-all by women throughout Papua New Guinea. In some areas, the net or woven string, is used as clothing thus the expression ‘meri i pasim bilum’. Bilum is also defined as the womb, the placenta or the pouch of a marsupial such as a wallaby.

In traditional societies the bilum is woven from animal fur, dried fibre extracted from tree bark, sisal or vine. In urban areas, the bilum is woven from wool or twine purchased from trade stores.

The versatility and practicality of a bilum is well renowned. It is still used for carrying garden produce or for moving goods from place to place. It is also used for carrying babies.

You can identify what province a bilum is from by its design and style. In recent times, it has become a much sought-after accessory item and an attractive souvenir for tourists and visitors to Papua New Guinea. Very recently, it has become a fashionable garment to wear.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne the Papua New Guinea athletes were dressed in bilum wear and looked spectacular in the national colours of red, black and gold woven by the women of Eastern Highlands under the auspices of Jaukae Bilum Products based in Goroka.

That was a very proud moment for Florence Jaukae, managing director and principal designer of Jaukae. She recalls the overwhelming emotion she felt as she sat watching the team in the PNG colours march past the grandstand. It was the biggest order the Jaukae Bilum Products had completed to that time – 52 pieces in all consisting of neck ties for men and one and two-piece outfits for women.

Jaukae was set up in 2001 and generates income for 50 women and their families, predominantly from Kama village. The venture is a women’s community project initiated by Florence, who saw the need to provide self-help activities to the local women as well as to utilise the unique talents of bilum weaving in the highlands.

Florence is a local ward councillor and a women’s leader. She has been working as a bookkeeper for Frameworks Architects in Goroka for 16 years.

The inspiration to begin Jaukae Bilum Products came about one day when she noticed the colours on a carpet snake and a Christmas beetle (popularly worn as part of headdresses in the Highlands). The patterns and colours on the snake and the insect got her wondering what they would look like on a clothing item, particularly woven like a bilum. One thing led to another and before she knew it a group of women had congregated, perhaps more out of curiosity than anything else.

Weaving bilums is second nature to the women of the Highlands and they did not need much coaching to get going. Nevertheless the venture has been a learning curve for them and the women have modified the art of weaving a bilum.

In the case of a bilum for carrying goods, weaving begins at the bottom of the bag and ends at the mouth with the handle being the last bit to be completed. To make a clothing item such as a dress, weaving the main body piece begins at the neck and goes down to the hem. Sleeves are done separately and attached.

Jaukae operates from a community hall in Kama where the women and some young men are assigned to do customer orders daily. Florence is quick to add that the men’s main task is to spin the fibre so that it is taut enough for the women to weave.

Until now, they have been receiving small orders to make dresses, tops, skirts, neck ties, beer coolers and patchwork, bits of bilum woven into jean trousers, jackets and skirts. The clothing is made from wool and tree bark fibre with added decorations such as chicken and cassowary feathers, cuscus fur, seeds, beads, shells and pig tusks.

Intricate as it is, washing or cleaning of bilum wear should be done with extreme care to avoid stretching, shrinkage and discolouring. Bilum wear made from tree bark fibre, sisal or vine is more delicate. It should only be aired.

An item of bilum wear takes six weeks minimum to make and is labour intensive. Prices range from K200 for a top to K300 for a full-length dress. During year-end graduation ceremonies, outfits are hired out for K30 an hour to parents who could not afford to buy them. Two-thirds of the income goes to the women and the remainder goes towards the cost of materials and other expenses.

Florence acknowledges that the art of weaving a bilum is not unique to Eastern Highlands women. “When a woman looks at a bilum that she has not seen before, she can go away and make one just as easily. We cannot stop that from happening. Our main problem is marketing our products,” she says.

Jaukae Bilum Products can make anything according to customer demand and is open to suggestions from organisations that want tailor-made products or unique branding.

The women have been fortunate enough to attract the attention of the Small Business Development Corporation and Oxfam which have assisted them in skills development. In 2006, Jaukae was one of 18 groups in the country that won the inaugural PNG Tingim Youth contest and received financial assistance from the World Bank. The venture has now diversified with the establishment of a piggery farm and an elementary school.

Jaukae Bilum Products is not without its critics. Florence explained that in the beginning certain sectors of the community opposed the venture saying the bilum was not meant for wearing. But this mother of nine (including four adopted children) stood firm. She knows that something as unique as a bilum has the potential to create a niche market and uses every opportunity to wear it as a walking advertisement.

When I interviewed Florence she had just got off the plane from Goroka wearing a beautiful green and blue knee- length bilum dress and carried a matching bilum bag. The colours of her outfit were much like the colours of a Christmas beetle.

She is determined to see the bilum transform into something bigger and better- hopefully to being the national dress of Papua New Guinea. After all, to weave a bilum wear can be likened to weaving the fabric of PNG society.

Emily Andrias with her bigger sister Maria Andrias after the graduation. 

Bilum dress has become a fashion amongst young PNG girls. Today at least at every graduation ceremony, a girl or some girls must have to wear a bilum dress for the event. 

In this photograph below is Emily Andrias Aisa who wears a PNG Bilum dress with patterns from the Simbu Provincial Flag on her year 12 graduation at Anglimb Secondary School in the Jiwaka Province. Photographs courtesy of Emily Andrias Aisa /March 2017.

Emily with her school mate dressed in traditional attire.

  

Emily Andrias proudly in her bilum dress made by her aunty for the graduation day.

Emily with one of her best friends at school Alphonse Mek from Enga Province.

Emily with her small aunty.

Papua New Guinea 'bilums' to be showcased and promoted at the 2017 Pacifika Festival in Auckland, New Zealand

PNG secondary school girls geared up for graduation in 'bilum dress' attire.
Photograph courtesy of Marielisha Ilai. March 2017.

PNG's brightly coloured patterns and designs of the Bilum products will be showcased at Auckland’s Pasifika Festival 2017 on March 25-26.

        The showcase is part of the Pacific Trade & Invest (PT&I) NZ Pacific Path to Market programme, a structured approach to helping businesses entering the New Zealand market. PT&I New Zealand held Pacific Path to Market workshops in Port Moresby last year as part of 10 workshops held across the Pacific Islands.

Bilum is a traditional form of weaving done by the women in PNG. The style is distinctly from PNG with beautiful vibrant colours and patterns woven into the string bags and clothing.

Sharlene Gawi was the Executive Officer of the Bilum Export Promotion Association (BEPA) established in 2015, based in PNG capital Port Moresby.

BEPA was formed as part of an economic empowerment project through the exports of handicrafts funded by the Australian Government and managed by the International Trade Centre. BEPA has so by far established contact with and trained 12 co-operatives of 650 women throughout the Bilum weaving areas of PNG.

Bilums sold at the Goroka Bilum Market.
 Image Credit: You Tube / Google.

Bilums are a traditional handwoven bag. Traditionally made using extracted and dried tree bark fibre that was twisted into string and woven into a bag that was used to carry babies, food, or anything else that needed carrying. 
 Bilums have also been used for traditional ceremonial attire and in exchanges for ceremonies such as bride-price and marriage ceremonies. 

Today, bilums are made using acrylic yarn and nylon string which give the weavers an array of colours to weave with and form various colourful surface patterns. Traditional and modern designs are woven to make beautiful surface patterns and styles vary based on what Bilums are used for. Most Papua New Guineans still use the bilum bags to carry to work or school or as give away gifts to visitors and even still to put babies in and rock them to sleep.

“Our scope of work includes acting as a middleman to promote bilum and bilum products and identify and access markets for our members in our co-operatives,” Ms Gawi said.

Bilum hats on sale in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Image credit: Texpatfaith blog - https://texpatfaith.com 

BEPA has formed strategic partnerships with the Tourism Industry Association and the PNG Small Medium Enterprise Corporation (SME).

“BEPA also looks for opportunities through the affiliations and partnerships with SME corporations and the Tourism Industry Associations and such, to empower our members through financial literacy, opening bank accounts and adult literacy.”

BEPA staff attended the PT&I Pacific Path to Market Workshop in Port Moresby last year.

“It showed us the difference in just selling a Bilum and having proper systems and documentation which help in finding a niche market for your product and how to attract the bigger clients,” Ms Gawi said.

BEPA is coming to New Zealand’s Pasifika Festival with the objective of showcasing the bilum and what BEPA does and gauging the New Zealand knowledge and response to bilum with a view to getting prospective clients and orders for Bilum products.

PNG Bilum in Australia.
Image credit: © hellaD 2012 

 Bilum is quite popular in Australia and the Pacific region, however, there is not much steady supply. “New Zealand is a market that we are not familiar with,” said Ms Gawi. 

She will be bringing several different styles of bilum and some of the bilum products samples that have been developed for the international market.

The popularity of bilum wear is one that has been gradually growing, its potential bubbling away gently since one of PNG’s local women entrepreneurs Florence Jaukae showcased a bilum dress back in 2000 at the Miss PNG competition. PT&I has an established association with Florence Jauke and PNG Bilum wear through PT&I Australia’s annual Maketi Ples exhibitions and other trade visits watching Bilum’ popularity rise, since the early 2000’s.

*For more information about this event, please contact Joe Fuavao, PT&I Trade Development Manager on joe@pacifictradeinvest.co.nz

(Extracted from Pacific Periscope blog - https://pacificperiscope.wordpress.com)

 'Madang bilums' sold at the Bilum Market in Madang. Image Credit: Leonard Epstein photography, 2017. https://leonardepsteinphotography.wordpress.com

Highlands Bilums on sale at Goroka Bilum Market. 

Image Credit: PNG Loop, 2017. www.looppng.com

PNG bilum – an icon of PNG design, utility, fashion & identity

The design is known as 10-needle or pawa post. Image Credit. Sodua Jexu Sparks/ 2017.

by PETER S. KINJAP - Extracted from Keith Jackson's - PNG Attitude blog

NO-ONE knows when that twine was originally twisted and looped to obtain a robust string bag but we do know that its usefulness and beauty has extended forward in time to continue to be of significance even today.

The prominent British anthropological couple, Marilyn and Andrew Strathern, who spent years in the highlands of PNG, thought the bilum was a result of the practice of spirit worship as they observed women looping the string while singing ritual chants.

Bilum as a design

Bilum as a utility  

Bilum as a fashion

Bilum as an identify

One article written about the bilum speculated that PNG women first started to weave them to relate to the womb; the bilum being the ‘outside’ womb for a new-born baby. It’s a thought that was picked up in in Tok Pisin in which the womb is described as bilum blo pikinini.

So who was that first woman to conceive the idea and start to teach other women the skills of looping string, often with intricate patterns, into these strong and useful artifacts?

We’ll never know; the origin of bilum making will remain a mystery known only to the past.

But still today, our Melanesian women loop and twist the strings – rarely now vegetable fibre but wool - into a cultural object connoting their attributes of care and love.

Of course, the aesthetic and utilitarian qualities of the bilum have now transitioned neatly into the cash economy and become an accepted symbol of the skill, beauty and determination of Papua New Guinean women.

At Goroka in the highlands and on Karkar Island in Madang, annual bilum festivals are celebrated. These events not only recognise the commercial value of the bilum but also acknowledge the skills of the weavers and the artistic quality of their creations.

Karkar festival chairman Pholas Yongole told me the event includes bilum displays and demonstrations of the process of bilum making.

Goroka’s festival head Florence Jaukae said her event is staged to celebrate the ancient skills, the fine design and also to preserve and protect the cultural importance of the bilum.

Over the last 50 years, the materials, designs and colours in bilum making have changed considerably. And the bilum’s purpose has been augmented as it has become an item of commercial value.

In today’s PNG it often purchased as a souvenir which serves to identify PNG internationally.

No two bilums are identical and they can be seen on the streets of Sydney, New York, London, or anywhere in the world. The bilum has also found find its way into high fashion.

In 2005, supported by the Australian government, a PNG bilum export and promotion association was created to help women derive income from their work.

So today bilum weaving remains as one of the great skills of PNG women throughout the country; a traditional art that is passed from one generation to the next.

A new pattern. Image credit: Sodua Jexu Sparks / 2017.

Another new pattern. Image credit: Sodua Jexu Sparks / 2017.