Tapa Turtles!
This term with Mrs. Gibson we have been learning about Tapa Turtles. Tapa is a traditional cloth made in places like Fiji and Samoa. First they have to get the inner bark from a mulberry tree and beat it with a mallet until it transformed into a soft cloth like sheet. Then they put pressure on the cloth to make it flat. Once it is flat, people draw on traditional designs with dye made out of natural ingredients. Unfortunately there is no mulberry trees in Pirongia so we had to make our tapa turtle’s slightly different to the way I just told you. First we had to scrunch up a piece of Mrs. Gibson's good tec art paper then unfold it and repeat that pattern for a good 20mins, after a while the piece of paper will become soft like a real tapa cloth. After that we carved a sign that had something to do wit us into a piece of wood, then rolled indian ink over it and printed onto a piece of paper. In the middle of all this we have our tapa turtles which are turtles with designs on them and we have been over them with the skinniest paint brushes and ink. Completing our art and learning about tapa has been super fun and it would be cool to do it again!
Great effort Aylee, I am so glad you enjoyed it. You should be very proud of your wonderful result. I loved how you were able to contrast how traditional tapa cloth is made and how you were able to make some non-traditional tapa cloth.
ReplyDeleteGood work Aylee!!!! You've done a awesome job!!
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