Tuku Atu Tuku Mai

VERANOA HETET
Harakeke
160mm (H) x 160mm (W)
Not For Sale

One day I was weaving quietly in a corner of my home.  There were a few mokopuna here. The parents were outside with my husband Sam. Our home was alive with the sounds of my little children and my big children. I got to wondering “If I were to weave a kete about my home what would I weave?” 

Raranga? ohhhh so many different patterns would be needed. Taaniko? a possibilty but it just didn't do it for me. What else can I do? Kowhaiwhai? No. 

Tukutuku.
Tukutuku! 

Used to lash the walls of a house together. Each pattern having a meaning and bringing warmth to the house. So appropriate

It was easy to come up with the design of the kete. Not so easy to bring the design out from my mind and into my hands to express what I wanted to say and how I wanted it to look. I currently have a whole corner of the spare room of my house dedicated to prototypes, trials, and “No that didn't work” pieces.

I had brainwaves and spent money on materials I thought would work.
Hours were spent creating that cluttered corner of my spare room.
I’ll clean that corner one day. 
For now it is it's own work of art

But one of the prototypes actually ended up being one of my favourite of all the kete. A sweet little kete. Just big enough to hold memories of the fun I had creating the messy corner of my spare room.