In Team 2 there are four different clubs. Mrs Carter - Engage, Miss Davis - Cooking, Ms Teleso - Culture Club, and Ms Gatson - Blogging. This week we were lucky to have more time at our clubs as there was no whole school assembly. Team 4 are on their final day of camp.
The Culture Club looked at how traditional tapa cloth is made. The name tapa is a general term for barkcloth, with each country having its own specific term. The making of tapa varies according to the country of origin, but generally the production follows the same process.
Designs are either printed or painted on free-hand. Dyes come from the berries. leaves and bark of a range of plants.
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| Aie Sorn and Losa arranging their patterns on black paper. |
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| Deciding which one goes, here? |
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| They look amazing girls, well-done!! |
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| Ema and Bailey cutting their patterns out. |
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| Ema likes orange as her favourite colour and Bailey likes red. |
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| We still got more to go. |
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| Emzjull and Kalylah, soon about to have their scrambled eggs. |
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| Eziaz enjoying his scrambled eggs and toast. |
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| "This is delicious!!" said Eziaz. |
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| Iesha and Emzjull having their scrambled eggs and toast. |
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| Imogen showing Frank how to post on his blog. We're lucky to have Imogen in our class, she's one of our ICT experts!! |
Kia ora,
ReplyDeleteWe are Room 5 at Wainui Beach School. We found out that they beat the bark flat to make the tapa cloth. They use berries to make colours. We have two examples of tapa cloth in our class. One from Fiji and one from Vanuatu. We like your tapa cloth designs you have made.