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Studying Toi Paematua: Diploma in Māori and Indigenous Art (Level 5) - weaving, in 2026 at TWoA Rotorua, wild weaving, handcrafted hand brooms, woven stones, natural soap, hair & more.

My very keen assistant helping me miro! Ok, so occasional I do end up spinning his tail or some other fur and have to di...
11/09/2026

My very keen assistant helping me miro! Ok, so occasional I do end up spinning his tail or some other fur and have to dislodge the muka from his coat! šŸ™„

FINALLY Iā€™ve gotten around to taking some photos of my finished kete muka! I was planning on doing them outside, but for...
07/09/2026

FINALLY Iā€™ve gotten around to taking some photos of my finished kete muka! I was planning on doing them outside, but forgot over the weekend, and itā€™s been peeing down with rain all day today. So inside it is.

Her name is ā€˜Rehuā€™ which means mist, haze or to pass out of sight. She is named for my lovely fur-kids Stella and Rags that have passed this year, but who I see out of the corner of my eye quite often around my house (see last photo). I miss you guys šŸ„ŗ

I wanted this to be light and delicate, with just a glimpse of something, hence the hint of colour in a couple of rows of whatu and in the pāheke at the top.

Pretty happy for my first kete muka, so many more ideas bouncing around in my head! Now to do my project write up before moving on to the last kaupapa for this year of study.

Wowee! Check out the fabulous red on this muka from the leaf spot infection on this harakeke! Pretty amazing colour! ā¤ļø
06/09/2026

Wowee! Check out the fabulous red on this muka from the leaf spot infection on this harakeke! Pretty amazing colour! ā¤ļø

So my dying experiment for this week was using heather foliage and seed heads from the Napier-Taupo Road collected on Su...
19/08/2026

So my dying experiment for this week was using heather foliage and seed heads from the Napier-Taupo Road collected on Sunday.

I boiled them for about an hour or so, and then let the muka soak for at least as long or until it cooled. The orangey looking jar is the straight dye bath, the middle jar is modified with a little bit of baking soda (shifted the pH to alkaline) which deepened the colour, and the dark jar is modified with iron vinegar.

I love all three colours from the different variations, with the baking soda version being slightly deeper than the original. The big surprise was the green I got from the iron modified dye. I wasnā€™t expecting this! I usually get grays from iron modification, but I guess each plant is different.

Have you dyed with heather before? Or have you achieved green with an iron modification?

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