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Weaving a cloak

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Dame Rangimarie Hetet shows how flax and feathers are woven into a cloak. The flax leaves are scraped to get the strong muka (fibre). This is softened by pounding before being woven with feathers.

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Jane Tolerton, Clothing and footwear manufacturing – Māori and colonial clothing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/23949/weaving-a-cloak (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.