Tapa Cloth of the inner bark of a Mulberry tree pounded into cloth
- Title
- Tapa Cloth of the inner bark of a Mulberry tree pounded into cloth
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Description
- Tapa Cloth of the inner bark of a Mulberry tree pounded into cloth; all-over net pattern in light brown on a natural white ground with some hand-painted designs in dark brown; design is sectioned off into rectangles with bands of painted designs of wheels and elongated diamonds; textile panel has five large dots; one edge has three numbers with slashes in between; 49//50//51.
- Motif
- Wheel Dots Numbers
- Work Type
- wall hangings
- Location
- Samoa
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 2012.001.001
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Bark Cloth
- Technique
- Pounding inner bark into cloth Natural derived dyes Hand-made
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Tapa Cloth is made exclusively in the Pacific Islands and used for wall hanging and decoration. It is sometimes used during weddings and ceremonies, and as clothing.
