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Posted on September 2, 2020August 23, 2022

Our Book on Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth

We are delighted to announce our book on ‘Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth’. Edited by Frances Lennard and Andy Mills, this book builds on our object-based approach to researching …

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Posted on April 29, 2020September 14, 2020

Making O‘a (brown dye) in American Samoa

Last week would have marked our final set of the Barkcloth Basics: Interpreting and Understanding Pacific Barkcloth workshops. While we are sad that we could not share these workshops …

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Posted on March 26, 2020September 1, 2020

American Samoan U‘a Patch & New Workshop Dates

Reggie Meredith, our wonderful tapa maker and practitioner in American Samoa, sent us this photo of her weeding and maintaining her u’a (paper mulberry) patch a couple of weeks …

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Posted on July 10, 2017September 1, 2020

New Barkcloth Research at the ESfO Conference 2017

At the start of July, Kew’s Mark Nesbitt and I attended the 2017 conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in the beautiful city of …

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