Decorating barkcloth
The cloth can be left plain white, or decorated using various techniques.
These include:
- rubbing with a dye-soaked cloth over a block of wood with a raised
design on it
- freehand painting
- printing with rollers or stamps
- using stencils
Several different techniques can be used on the same piece of cloth.
Find out more about the uses of barkcloth
Barkcloth ‘siapo’ from Samoa or Tonga
This piece of barkcloth was decorated by rubbing a dye-soaked cloth over it on a pattern block (the light brown sections), then hand painted.
Barkcloth ‘masi’ from Fiji
This barkcloth was decorated using stencils and freehand painting.
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