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Monday, 26 September 2011

Making, Dyeing and Unwrapping Bundles.

Dyeing Using the Hot Extraction Process.
Wrapping bundles with leaves and dyeing them using iron and copper pots on a fire pit. Opening the bundles to discover the amazing and delicate colors and patterns achieved by the students with out the use of chemicals.

Monday, 19 September 2011

Scarves available to buy at pre-exhibition price.





If you would like to buy any scarves the students have made please contact :
email: office@maitai.school.nz Phone: 03 5480281 for more information.

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Creating Mixed Media Paper Towers.



Constructing structures with cardboard and wood.


Choosing the flowers to press, opening the flower press.


Pasting the pressed flowers onto 'tea bag' paper.


Hapa Zome on silk using spring flowers to be pasted onto
paper.

Pasting mixed media onto the 'tea bag' paper.

Pasting the silk hapa zome flower prints on to a paper tower.
We are making a collection of mixed media paper towers to
be displayed in the exhibition at The Suter in November 2011.