How to make a Tapa cloth

...How To Make A Tapa Cloth...

Equipment:

Brown Paper

Pencil

Rubber

Ruler

Vivid

Brown Dye

Bleach

Cotton buds

* Find a Tapa Pattern that you want to draw.

* Find a brown piece of paper that is 30cm x 30cm.

* Rule up a 10 by 10 grid (rule boxes 3cm apart on a 30 cm square piece of brown paper).

* Draw the Tapa pattern that you found on the brown piece of paper with pencil. {Step 1}

* Rub out all the lines that you made for the grid.

* Go over all the patterns with your vivid.

* Colour some of the patterns in with black vivid.

* Scrunch it up as much as you can to make it soft, approximately 10 times

• Dye the entire paper brown.

* Wait for it to dry. {Takes about 3-5 hours to dry}

* Use cotton buds to put bleach on the parts that you want white.

* Hang the Tapa cloth on the wall to display it.