Dalee Ella is an artisanal, environmentally and socially ethical, all Australian made collaboration between artist printmaker Dalee Ella and surface pattern and garment designer Clare Greschke.

We make small batch, thoughtfully designed wearable art garments and artworks that are printed by hand and made to last through the many seasons of our lives.

We create to bring the beauty of nature onto our bodies and into our homes. To remind us of our part in the great interconnected web of all life on earth. Connecting us deeper with our environment and grounding us in our unique selves as part of the greater whole.

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Meet our latest textile designs

From hand carved lino block - to silkscreen - to fabric, our prints are birthed from our connection to nature and a desire to produce quality textiles that stand the test of time.

We have made every effort imaginable to keep things local, sustainable and of the highest quality possible. Our stretch organic cottons are both knitted and hand screen-printed in Melbourne, Australia.

Self Care is Community Care is Earth Care

Designed to be a powerful reminder. To help us counteract the destructive cultural narratives that see us burning ourselves out as we try our best to do and be all the things in a system that glorifies individualism. 

This print reminds us that when we truly care for ourselves, this care ripples out into our communities and into the earth. We are the earth and the earth is us, we are each other, we are all interconnected. 

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Nightwalk

This print features the Bandy Bandy snake with its striking black and white stripes, interconnected by mycelial threads to the Emperor Gum Moth, one of Australia's largest moths.  A seasonal shift marked by the cross over of summer and autumn life, woven together in their interconnectedness as part of the great forest ecosystem that is Dalee's home.

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Marigold Connection

Created from one of the illustrations Dalee made for the Milkwood Permaculture handbook, this print is an ode to reciprocity and our interconnection to the living world. Marigolds are often given as gifts of reciprocity while also being an incredible companion plant in the vege patch, offering protection to other plants from many pests. They were also a favourite flower in Dalee's grandfathers garden. The smell bringing back memories of connection, family and childhood. 

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Handmade prints for home

All our fabric designs begin as original hand carved lino prints. We then press them onto linen papers that we carefully craft from the pulped offcuts of our garments or onto a special selection of other ethically sourced hand crafted papers.

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We are deeply grateful to live and work on beautiful Bandjalang country and Widjabul country. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians, the Bandjalang people and the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation. We would also like to acknowledge that our fabrics are both made and printed on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Wadawurrung peoples of the kulin Nation. We recognise the ancient and continued connection to the land, waters and skies of this special continent, and acknowledge that the people never ceded sovereignty. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging and to all First Nations people.