Maori Feather Korowai - Black Brown White and Paua from ShopNZ.com
This beautiful Maori Feather Korowai features stripes of coloured feathers - mottled Brown, Reddish Brown with Jade, White, and Black. The total effect...
Baby or Child Maori Korowai Cloak from ShopNZ.com
This beautiful handmade Maori Feather Korowai Cloak , or kahu huruhuru, is made for a baby child. It can also be used as wallhanging. Dimensions of this...
Maori Korowai Cloaks
Information on how our Korowai Cloaks are made, including photos of the feathers and sample cloaks. Made in New Zealand by members of Maori Iwi.
Kereru feathers on black muka mawhitiwhiti by Veranoa Hetet. The weaving was completed in 2012. It took Veranoa six years to complete and was started by her mother Erenora Puketapu-Hetet just before her passing in 2006.
Korowai-Maori Cloak
Traditional Weaved Cloak
Art | Mahi Toi – Waiorua | Maori Weaving
Introducing Maori Lifestyles
This blog provides a visual-verbal snapshot of Maori culture and contemporary Maori lifestyles in modern New Zealand. It presents my own experiences and observations of Maori culture and is not intended in anyway to be the definitive view on all things Maori, but rather an introduction for those who want to know more about Maori culture and its place in everyday bicultural New Zealand.
traditional flax weaving: hinaki
Gorgeous handmade Maori korowais -in Auckland, New Zealand
Peacock Feathers
When we went to Wales three years ago, we spent one night in a wonderful place called Gwydir Castle. Pat talked the couple who had bought and were restoring the place into letting us stay, even th…
Finishing ideas for commission
I have been thinking about what to do at the top of the commission cloak. Trying out ideas by starting the rows. Firstly just plain. Well sort of plain with the aho cotton (warp) being the same colour as the whenu (weft). The mawhitiwhiti is whale's tail pattern. Then I tried the twist in brown/orange and black with black aho. Now I am wondering if the twist with plain aho might be better. Anybody got any comments? The twist takes a lot of effort but is effective. Is an old technique I have…