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Kete Kumara

  1. first we went to longlands to cut our 48-56  flax leaves, but first we said a little karakia to show respect towards the plant.
  2. after we cut our flax, we went back to school to prepare/strip and whiri our flax
  3. the next day we softened our flax and chose the best 48-56 strips
  4. we grabbed 3 thin strands of flax and stared to plait the whiri ends together
  5. then added a strip of flax to one side by the whiri ends. doing a french plait type thing
  6. get another strip of flax and add it to the other side and fold over like your doing a french plait
  7. after all that is finished then you lay all the ones on the left side out and then alll the ones on the right side out
  8. put them into pairs then fold the right strip over the left strip, do that to both sides
  9. start build up your corners by weaving under, over, under, over
  10. after youve finished doing the corners then start weaving up to create the kete shape
  11. when thats done, find you ara
  12. and do your tapkiki finish
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He Puti Puti Nui

  1. we got 2 long strips of long flax and split both the flax leaves into 8 pieces
  2. put both the flax together and start doing the over under pattern as you would for a small puti puti
  3. carry on going until all four corners are complete
  4. when all corners are done, tie it together however you want

 

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Round Konae

  1. We had to have 12 or 16 strips, or divisible by 4

  2. lay the strips out into a woven square
  3. on each of the flat sides grab the under one and fold down, then get the over one and put it behind the folded one
  4. grab the other strip on the side if the one you folded down and fold it thriugh to make an over under pattern
  5. do the same to the other sides strip
  6. leave the end strips until all the sides are done
  7. repeat 3 more times
  8. then when all the corners are done, start folding it all together
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Muka Extraction

when you want to extract muka from the harakeke you make a light cut on the dull side of the flax then you turn the flax over on to the shiny side, put your shell on then move it along the harakeke. from then on you will start to see the muka in the flax. carry on sliding the shell along the flax to get the muka out.

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Tapiki finishing edge

  1. set the ara so they are straight along the same line. 1 will stay up, 2 will fold on to itself
  2. make sure 2 is creased to secure the ara
  3. strip 3 from the different direction is placed on top of strip 1
  4. fold strip one strip 3, (fold on a diagonal) in the opposite directions
  5. fold number 2 on top of number 1. stripe 2 now becomes number 1. REPEAT ALL STEPS, Fold all blue strips down in a V shape tuck under a strip.
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Instructions for Whiri ends

2 methods (traditional and modern)

Traditional method

  1. take the spine out, pull until it resists
  2. pull down a strip closest to the spine
  3. fold the strip onto itself (dull side to dull side)
  4. place the front part of your palm (thumb) – Thenar onto the crease
  5. place the butt under your arm
  6. grip the strip with your other hand
  7. grip firmly and pull at the same time
  8. follow through with the grip and pull

Modern method

  1. prepare strip-cut it out
  2. on the dull side make a cut part of the way through 10cm from the butt/think end
  3. with a butter knife soften on the shiny side of the cut to peel off the “para” (wax)
  4. comb
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Konae

  1. start with an even amount of strips (14, 16, 18, 20)

  2. lay them diagonal across
  3. fold back an “under” lay another strip next to it then fold back into position
  4. repeat this process until an even number of strips are on each side
  5. add pegs to two diagonal corners
  6. corners
  • you use your two corners
  • find the “under” strip fold back
  • fold the other corner strip into itself
  • repeat so, 4 strips from each side make a little squre
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Our trip to the marae

About 2 weeks ago, our class planned to go on a trip to Te Aranga Marae and weave for the day. we  then went along with the plan, but first Miss Brightwell to us all to Longlands to harvest harakeke properly. She taught us all how to cut the flax, also taught us that we had to say a karakia or anything that thanks the plant itself. We all had to cut about 20 pieces of flax for a kete and less for a konai. we then went off to Te Aranga Marae and got all out stuff ready to go then stared splitting our harakeke and doing this type of moka thing on the ends. some made a kete with Miss Brightwell and the rest of the girls made a konai. I found making a kete a lot harder because you had to french plait the moka part then make sure things were even because if it was uneven the entire kete wouldnt be able to hold its place. as the konai was a lot easier because we had a bit of practise by making them in the classroom. when the day was complete some walked home because it was not far from Te Aranga Marae. the ones who were left went back with Miss Brightwell and Mrs Eaton.

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PutiPuti

  1. took spine out, and the take the sides out
  2. split flax in half and then split each half into two
  3. we then soften each strip, we used the blunt side of the knife and started from the middle down and then from the middle up, but not too hard
  4. then split the strips again so there were four strips on each side
  5. then we put every second strip down so the pattern went up, down, up ,down
  6. we then put the first up strip across the rest of the up strips and then put all the strips that were down, up.
  7. carry on doing that until all the flax on that side have been woven in
  8. turn it 45 degrees, then start weaving the same pattern again
  9. when you get to the end, all the left over flax you just weave it into the middle of the putiputi
  10. finished

 

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