Tapa can be made from the inner bark of paper mulberry trees or breadfruit trees.
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Tapa maker Faapito Salu begins by peeling the outer bark layer off a branch of the tree.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Tapa is made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree and decorated in charcoal with symbolic motifs and various patterns.
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An interior design shop that sells such island textiles as tapa cloth, a ceremonial bark cloth that is hand-painted in repeating grids of geometrical and floral patterns.
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White and Fifita made raised plates and delivered them to Haveluloto, where the women beat the tapa together from strips of mulberry bark and rubbed on the designs.
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Instead of standing behind a velvet rope, children handled artifacts such as a tiki mask, straw basket, lei and tapa cloth, a fabric made out of bark which was used to make clothing.
From the sltrib.com
Later we watched an elderly woman strip the bark off a mulberry tree and patiently scrape and pound the inner material into a piece of tapa cloth.