How to Make a Tapa Cloth

Equipment

A3 white blank piece of paper folded into 8 small rectangles
1 vivid
Brown dye
A sketch pencil
A2 black piece of paper
Stapler

Method

1.First you need your A3 white blank piece of paper, which is folded into 8 small rectangles.

2.Then you have to draw a pattern that relates with the our pacific neighbours. You might want to draw it on some scrap paper first incase your pattern on your real paper doesn’t work out well.

3.Once you have got your pattern on your real paper you might need to get some newspaper and put it underneath your work incase vivid goes on your table. You get your vivid and outline everything that is in pencil.

4.After that you need to rub out any pencil that you see. Once you have finished that you need your brown dye and dye the whole thing.

5.Next you wait for it to dry and then scrunch it up to give it the tapa cloth feeling and then you open it up and there you go a tapa cloth.

By Farzana