Tapa Cloth Graces

A   L   O   H   A !

 Tap Tap Tap. . . 

These Hawaiian Ladies are 

manufacturing Kapa Cloth. 

“I was tired of seeing

 the Graces

 always depicted as

 beautiful young things.

 I think wisdom comes 

with age 

and life 

and pain. 

And knowing 

what matters.” 

                   Louise Penny

Pounding out mulberry bark 

to make the cloth

I hole ‘ia no ka i‘e i ke kau o ka lā.

The time to cut designs

 in a tapa beater

 is when the sun is high.

[Do your work 

when you are at your best.]

                                 Hawaiian Proverb

The carved sticks 

that print the patterns

" When 'I' 

is replaced with

 'We', 

even 'Illness'

 becomes 'Wellness'. " 

                                     Malcolm X.

 Drying & inspecting 

the printed Kapa

" To fulfill a dream, 

to be allowed to 

sweat over lonely labor, 

to be given the chance 

to create, 

is the meat and potatoes 

of life. 

The money is the gravy. 

As everyone else,

I love to dunk my crust in it.

 But alone, 

it is not a diet designed 

to keep body 

and soul together. "

                          Bette Davis,

                                                    The Lonely Life, 1962  

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