Tapa cloth is an unwoven kind of bark cloth made by soaking and pounding the soft inner bark of the paper mulberry and certain other trees. It is the traditional fabric of Polynesia. Tapa cloth was once widely used for clothing and mats on the islands of the South Pacific. While modern woven cloth has [...]
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23 May
Have you heard of tapa cloth?
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