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60 pages
illustrations (some colour)
On cover: Plaiting, weaving, tukutuku, whakatauki. Table of contents: Traditional weaving materials : flax -- Other plant weaving materials -- Dyes from native plants -- Weaving with strips of flax -- Basic weaving technique -- Flax mats (taka) -- Headbands (tipare) -- Finishing simple baskets -- Kete baskets -- Piupiu (skirts) -- Weaving with prepared flax -- Spinning the thread (miro) -- Weaving a poi cover -- Tukutuku wall panels/screens -- Tukutuku materials/colours -- Tukutuku panel construction -- Whakatauki : proverbs and sayings.
Summary: This book describes the materials used by the Māori for weaving, the centuries-old rituals, and how to make some simple objects such as headbands, flax mats, baskets and through to tukutuku panel weaving. Colour illustrations of varieties of flax and line drawings of weaving instructions.
In English with some Maori.
New Zealand pocket guides.