Room 14's Tapa Cloth

We have been busy this term preparing ourselves for our school production which will happen later on in this term.  The theme for our production is 'Our many cultures'.  So in class we have been studying the different cultures that our within our school community.  Recently we looked at cultures that make tapa cloths and what makes these cultures special.  A Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a 
barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far 
afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea (particularly in Oro Province around Tufi) and Hawaii (where it is called kapa).
After we learnt and read about these cultures we worked together to create our own tapa cloth.  Each of us researched a traditional design and draw a draft.  We then created an 'authentic piece of paper by screw it up 10 times and then ironing it flat.  We then painted our designs using both sharpies and different dyes.  We then put our squares together with the whole class to created our completed cloth.

This is our finished design: