Tapa Designs

Tapa Designs

A tapa design comes from the pacific oceans. Many cultures use a tapa for special things like the Tongans , Samoa's and other many cultures. Some cultures make a tapa as a dress for some special things.

How to make a tapa design .Well to make a tapa design  we used brown paper bags instead of using white paper. Some of us done four squares and some just done one big design. Once we had finished looking up our pictures and drawing our patterns on to the brown bag we coloured it with a dark brown crayon ,a light brown crayon, a black crayon and a kind of golden yellow crayon. Once we finished colouring our tapa design we went to go and dye it .

We headed down to the dyeing table to dye our art work. The colour of the dye we used was the colour brown. We waited for the other three people to finish with the dye so that we can dye our work. We grabbed our tapa design and painted dye all over our art work once we finished we started to dab toilet paper on to our artwork to dry it. Once we finished we took a picture of it and it ended up looking like this.