at the seattle center we attend the fifth annual two thousand and twelve live cultural festival travel trade marketing and you have both here and what is your trying to get the message out to the patrons that are come by well we're talking about visiting the hawaiian island we have six different very distinct islands to visit and we're all willing and ready to answer questions that anybody might have been visiting the island so you're you're representing more than just one island right now represent all six of the islands and how many visitors to get to the white the islands i guess traditional you're probably talking about pearl harbor and some of the luaus non traditional i think we've got a lot of variety especially in that in the nature area like visiting sunrise a what's so special about it check out what else is going on here what are you guys creating here down to the pacific islands out to hawaii and this is what they would use for all their clothing and fabric related kind of things but it's actually all paper so here we have a bunch of the steps of how it's done and you know it has to be stripped off the d but after i got it like this then we put these inside the water and ferment them for a couple of weeks and then what's going to happen it's going to get into this kind of stage that makes it easier for me to make it wider without pasting pieces together i can actually layer pieces so i could put another piece on top like this and pound all of that together and even put more on top of that and i'll be able to get it fixed but i'd be able to bring it out to  components maybe but not a lot of practitioners who grow the trees with the tools who make or gather all the dyes and do things like that so i'm lucky i'm able to be able to be one of those people who actually does this this is my full time job i am a professional couple maker i left my full time day job last year to to do this instead and it's a lot more fun so these are some of your samples and tools these are all some of the tools  native plant it was brought in by the puerto rican but it makes a really nice orange color like this so all the different kinds of dice we used these are the stamps that we used to do the printing on the cloth also these things all have to be carved so it's quite a few components just to get ready to actually make the cloth these pieces here that we've brought are things that people usually think of when they hear the word top of cloth these are all from different islands in the pacific as well as simple to know some more fiji here this is up to a new guinea and so these bigger designs is more what people think about when they are when they hear that word tapa and so you know we're trying to teach people in hawaii we had more colors we had different types of designs and you know it's nice and good as it was and stop making it all together after contact after they got fabric after they were spend their time learning to read and write and do other things than this was kind of a lost art for about one hundred years and was just revived again so none of our ancestors actually passed it down to us we had to kind of learn  hopefully through genetic memory reading some accounts of things that were written not even a say by hawaiians or written more by observers who who had observed it as it was in its demise so it's been difficult to try and relearn it there's a lot of cuppa and tools in the museum that we can go and research but as far as somebody sitting with us and saying this is how it's done we didn't have anybody like that at all unless we went to another fiji someone someplace where they still did it and over here we have a couple of designs that were just think absolutely here and go to the bucket over there with all the flowers and tell me what you did these two guys so you do such a beautiful job now did you know that all of these flowers could be used like you know that can be done that before how smart you are because there's a lot of grownups who don't know beans about anything so i like the science you have here so this is you know we do this because all of our die materials are planted but people don't realize like i said all the things when you look at the plants outside there's medicine there's food there's least i think i was when i was trying to show them how to do it to see how and then and then over here on this side so these guys are all stamping and so these are the the stamps that we use set of the the ones over there because those ones are they're fine and i have friends who are using autocad now to make these kind of stuff they just punch it into the computer and whip them all up but this is how we did all the printing and so when what it took to little hammer yes yes little bit of hands on stuff it's nice when people can take something away to help help lock in what they heard when i was blah blah blah learn more about the two thousand and thirteen live aloha occurring september eight from 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