Beautiful Tapa

Tapa, ngatu, siapo, hiapo...

Using authentic cloth Room 9 created these beautiful pieces.

The Tapa Making Process

Tapa cloth is part of many cultures throughout the pacific.

There are many steps to the process of making tapa cloth as these clips show.

Making Tapa

We were very lucky to have Elaine and Mrs Alamoti bring in real tapa cloth for us to use.  We are working on our designs and are getting ready to create these using the cloth.  These are our first steps.