Today's task with the Summer Learning Journey Programme is "Create Your Own Tapa" For this activity please create your own tapa cloth design. You can draw your design on paper or using a drawing app such as Google Draw. On your blog, post an image (photo or screenshot) or your tapa design and describe what each part of your picture represents (means). Have you ever created your own Tapa before, if so what designs did you incorporate?
Tapa Cloth. Barkcloth, or tapa, is not a woven material, but made from bark that has been softened through a process of soaking and beating. The inner bark is taken from several types of trees or shrubs, often mulberry and fig, and designs are applied with paints and vegetable dyes of light brown, red, and black. Here is the Tapa I created. The triangles on my Tapa represent all the other different designs and the way they are made. The flower on my Tapa represents the flower that people usually in Samoa and in other countries wear these types of flowers behind their ears or around their neck.
Kia Ora Bella,
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful tapa design. You’ve incorporated a lot of great elements into your design. I really like the triangles in particular for the geometrical difference they give as well as the flower for it’s pop of colour. It’s original and beautiful, well done!
Have you ever made or designed a tapa before? Perhaps you do other crafty things? My mum taught me how to finger knit which is a cool skill I now have. I am also learning how to use a sewing machine which is a fun learning curve! Can you do any crafty things?
Happy blogging,
Shannon (SLJ)