This is awesome. So cool to have the process broken down and explained! I appreciate this preserving of our culture, especially for our future young Samoan artists!
Tapa come from Indonesia region, and spread to Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Marquesas, Vanuatu, Fiji, Niue, Cook Island, Wallis & Futuna, Tuvalu, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. In Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and Cocos Island, they evolved into 'Batik'. Tapa/Siapo or Masi are Austronesian tradition cloth.