Hawaii's Cultural Renaissance: The Return Of Kapa Makers | Handmade In The Pacific | Perspective 

Thank you so much for showing your art in the preparation of the cloth and the careful handling of the brushes and printing blocks. My grandmother knew and loved Queen Liliuokalani and was a teacher for a lot of Samoan chiefs as a young girl in the early part of the last century when the Christian Queen was old. She was invited one day to Washington Place for tea and always told us stories of how beautiful and skilled and lovely she was. I have no claim to Hawaii as i grew up in other climates, but i love the ethics and the traditions and have been trying to learn enough Hawaiian so i can read the newspapers and understand Kahiko chant. Someday i may make it to the Merry Monarch festival, but hopefully by that time the ali'i of the provisional government will have persuaded a return to the Hawaiian law, and caused the US to unhand the islands and allow it to return to the prototype of a Sovereign neutral state and a constitutional monarchy. I would like to see Hawaiians as of 1893 vintage to choose whether they will elect the next monarch or not as per the Hawaiian constitution.

The most touching beautiful documentary… full of grace and calm passion, I loved the story and appreciate this beautiful precious Kapa making tradition, thank you from my heart for sharing it , you are blessed by the universe my dear✨🙏🏻🌸🦋🕊

what a wonderful glimpse into this very special culture. Everything I get to know about it stirs my heart

I was a Kamaaina on the Big Island for nearly 20 years. The high cost of living drove me away. But Hawaii will always be my spiritual home. The islands are the most beautiful I've ever been to. I also learned how the missionaries and other haole arrivals ruined Hawaiian culture and traditions. The islands are rich in history . My adult son still lives in Madame Pele's back yard. Aloha nui loa.

How very special 👗👠🎀👒🌺 Thank you so very much for sharing with us 🇺🇸 Love 💕 Hawaii 🦚🦩🧚‍♀️🦜😇😉👋🦋🐳🐬🐋🐠🐡🦐🍂🌹🌼🌴🍐🍑🍒🏄‍♂️

Mahalo..I applaud your determination to bring back Kapa to Hawaii. Just like Tatau Samoa retained Tapa making. There is a much easier way to make it. You should definitely take a trip to your Cuzzies in Samoa and see how they do it. You definitely found your own way though. Thank you for sharing.

I can do this...its a process and spiritual and patience is needed. My kumu taught me many things as well...like making cordage and kukui oil. The tools used are special as well. I miss the islands Mahalo nui loa.🌴🌈🌊🌞🥰

Beautiful

The reverence showed at the statue of the queen bought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for the experience you gave people. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Aloha Dalani - thank you for sharing your experience practicing Hawaiian crafts and perpetuating the life of the land in righteousness.

Thank you for teaching me about this art form. It is beautiful and full of heart.

Beautiful.

This is fascinating and what the internet is for

Learn from the cradle of Polynesia, Samoa and Tonga. A wise person learns from the mistake of others and fools learn from their own. Take notes, you’ll be amazed how closely connected we really are, make it yours, and own it.

This is so beautiful and this lovely lady has such beautiful ears lol regards from Ireland

She is most definitely an artist

this was awesome

Amazing !! thank you for sharing that . I am so pleased to see the traditions and cultures of Hawaii being rediscovered and preserved

Hello! So beautiful. Really moved. Can we see the whole dance? Thanks!

Very interesting, i really enjoyed watching this. How wonderful to rescue something, to restore it to your people forever. Beautiful.

That was so interesting, thank you. Just love the cock crowing in the background. He’s a ‘ cool guy’. 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

When I was a kid at Maunawilili school in Kailua, we made Kapa cloth by crunching up a brown paper sack. Just another teaching opportunity waisted. Do you think there is paper mulberry trees around Diamond Head? Thank you for your video.

Can I come and live with you, please? ✨😌🙏🌸🌺🍀

A beautiful film. Two things: 1) Kapa (aka Tapa) making is not unique to Hawaii. Might something be learned from collaborating with other Polynesians, e.g. Samoa? 2) Thurston Twigg Smith had other ideas about whether Liliuokalani was good for Hawaii. Do the victors really get to write the history? Stop any tourist in Waikiki and ask them how Hawaii became part of the US and you'll almost NEVER get the right answer. So, yes the victors write the history, or Americans (I don't consider Hawaii to be America) are just ignorant (Fake news! SAD!). When people get all gaga about how wonderful Hawaii is and how happy Hawaiians are, I tell them that Hawaii is a bunch of volcanoes in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with just the tops showing. There's a lot of tectonics going on under the surface that occasionally results in a fiery eruption.

Give the entire archipelago back to the Hawaiians, and let them decide what to do with it.

With all due respect, one has to have A LOT of free time and good financial backstage to allow oneself all the time and work that is put into researching and making it... or customers standing in line to buying those things in exchange for a fortune. Or just being a serious case of a masochist. I'd go mad if I had to constantly beat those trees for a day or more, not to mention the state of my back, wrist joints and eyes afterwards. I swear I had to forward the video a whole bunch of minutes because the Chinese torture of all that hammering was making me want to scream and break things. My word, that woman's neighbours must be the most patient people in the world - elsewhere she'd get herself fined for all that noise, hours and hours without end. I can imagine the indigenous Hawaiians back then, given woven cotton clothes, learning they don't have to spend months to make an equivalent of a pair of knickers anymore to have anything to put on them, rejoicing and cheering and throwing all the kapa making tools and resources into their refuse pits and swearing they'd never again waste their time and health on making any of those.