Stories From The Pacific

Stories From The Pacific

p1:what we did.

p2:How to make tapa

p3:Which pacific Islands and cultures make tapa

This week we did a similar design of a Tapa this Tapa is made from crayons,dye and a brown Bakery paper bag.Know I will tell you why I did the designs on the brown bakery paper bag.  

If you want to know how to make tapa you have to chop down paper mulberry trees and tack the bark of it. Then you have to stripe the bark of the tree and flattened then joined together and it will be a large cloth and put it in the sun to try out. When the tapa is try you can put it over a carving and pushed to see the pattern then put dye over the out line. Next the pattern is decorated with black and brown dye and that is how you can make a tapa.

The pacific Island that make tapa is Solomon island,Fiji,Tonga,Niue,cook island and more. There is about 13 pacific islands and cultures that make tapa. There is all types of cultures in the pacific. and this is how it will end up at the end.