How to make a Tapa Cloth, By Addnan

...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.