Authentic Tahitian's Pareo hand painted in Tahiti by Tahiti Art Maohi
Blue fabric: 65% polyester - 35% cotton - measures: 1,80 x 1,10 m.
This beach Pareo painted by hand is a reprint of an old engraving of several tens of years long gone, it reappears for your viewing pleasure.
The shades of green and blue pigments are mixed on the bottom of this bluish purple sarong.
The pareos handmade by Tahiti Art Maohi
The origins of sarong "pareu" in Tahitian
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In Polynesia before the arrival of Europeans, pareos were not produced on woven fabrics, but on square plant fibers, called tapa, made from Ecorse tree of "Burau" (also known as purau in Tahitian ) . |
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To become pareos, Tapa sheets were decorated in various ways, by burnishing with smoke of wood fire, immersion in baths of dyes made from natural pigments, painted freehand or by printing matrix made of leaves ferns and tree fruit or using bamboo engraved.
Today and for over thirty years, Tahiti Art uses these ancestral techniques, printed in its fabric by hand on large wooden carved planks.
The color palettes used on the fabrics makes of unique pieces in their shades, mixing tradition and modernity. |
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