This week was Samoan language week! To celebrate, we had our lord's prayer in Maori to Samoan! Also as part of the Samoan language week celebration for our class, we made some art!
Our teacher said that we would make a tapa cloth. There was lots of patterns to choose from! We used something called 'Sugar paper' for our base. Sugar paper is HIGHLY absorbent, unlike normal paper so that was perfect for our dye later! First, we drew our pattern on the sugar paper with a dark brown crayon. The crayon contained wax so when we put the dye on, the dye wouldn't seep through the crayon.
I enjoyed creating my tapa cloth, although it took a bit of time and I kept making my lines too thick! Other than that, I was satisfied with my work. I found making the lines not too thick EXTREMLY tricky. Our teacher said we couldn't go back and restart though.
Here is my tapa cloth!
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