Tapa Cloth

Tapa

This cloth is made from the treated inner bark of the paper mulberry tree grown in home gardens. After one or two years, the trees are cut down; their bark stripped off and pounded flat in a fashion that spreads it out into a coarse cloth. Vegetable dyes and charcoal are used to paint intricate black and red symmetric designs on the cloth in a style reminiscent of Aboriginal art.

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