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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 1818900, member: 45&quot;]It is a tapa cloth, and it&#039;s from Fiji. </p><p><br /></p><p>No blood involved! The cloth itself it made by beating the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree/shrub, and gluing them together to make a type of felted fabric.&nbsp; In most places, the black dye is made from burned nuts of the candlenut tree, the brown may be made from the candlenut tree bark.&nbsp; But all use natural local materials to produce the tapa cloth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fiji tapa is made with stencils, other island nations use carved pattern boards&nbsp; for the designs, or paint them freehand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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