Reflecting on my tapa cloth by Alazay

Reflecting on my Tapa Cloth

1. Are you pleased with your Tapa Cloth? why / why not?
I am really happy with my tapa cloth because it took a lot of hard work to do it

2. What did you find easy when you were creating your Tapa?
I found doing my pattern really easy

3. What did you find tricky when you were creating your Tapa?
ruling up my grids


4. If you made another Tapa, what would you change and why?
I would change the middle because I want my middle to be different from other peoples.


5. Who / What has helped you in creating your Tapa?
using a ruler and using Mrs Walter’s photos.

6. Did you use any of your own cultural patterns in your own Tapa? Which ones? What do they mean? If you didn’t use your cultural patterns, what did patterns did you use? Where did they come from?

I used every sort Maori, Tongan and Samoan Patterns.


7. What geometric elements does your Tapa Cloth show? Reflection, Rotation, Translation.
I have used reflection