Tapa cloth from Mulberry

Tapa can be made from the inner bark of paper mulberry or breadfruit trees.

Traditional handmade tapa cloth, made from the paper mulberry tree, hand painted with natural dyes.

Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a bark cloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji.

Tapa Cloth. Bark cloth, or tapa, is not a woven material, but made from bark that has been softened through a process of soaking and beating.

Tapa is more time taking procedure to get a quality product as a cloth.
Experimental Tapa from mulberry trees of gilgit baltistan.

Qualitative product of tapa depends on quality of mulberry tree .In pacific island people

used trees of mulberry with out sub branch BC such types of branches leads to less

quality product during isolation of bark from tree.

                          

Procedure:



Step 01: Harvesting Mulberry






Step 02:remove outer bark







Step 03:sun for dry(Tutu know as inner bark of mulberry)





Step 04:put in cold water(making role of tutu and let them into cold water.




Step 05:tool/Beating Tool is used for breaking the fibers through beating process.




step 06:single layer:
For more strength of cloth you can repeat the method and submerged layers according to its thickness.And let the product to dry on sun.