Making Tapa Cloth

We are learning to about Making Tapa Cloth. Each cloth is special to our culture. We had drawn plant and flower pictures. When we did this we used a chalk outline, We coloured inside our chalk outline. We decided that we would make our pictures into replica Tapa Cloth by joining all our pictures together. Our Tapa Cloth would be very big but we knew that we would have to use more browns and blacks for our cloth replica. We used brown crayons on our pictures too and brown dye, The pictures dried then we used black pastels as an outline and scrutched up the picture to make it look crinkly just like the cloth looks.                                              

                            Here are our wonderful tapa patterns all ready to be joined together.