Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Tapa Cloth



As part of our Caritas focus on the Pacific we learnt a little bit about Tapa Cloth, which is a special bark cloth made in Tonga and Fiji among other Pacific countries. Tapa cloth is made from the bark of mulberry trees and takes a long time to make. Plants are used to make dyes to paint the tapa cloth.
We made out own tapa cloth using paper and crayon and a template to create a pattern.

Gluing and creating the template:


Creating the pattern on the paper by rubbing crayon over the paper and template:


The finished tapa cloth:




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