DRaW, Va.

I think the Va powerpoint was interesting, learning about the changes with, tapa cloth and the history on how the Tapa cloth was created. I was interested on how the Cook Island, made a tapa cloth using patchwork.  The patterns look square, but i wonder, when I look at this tapa cloth, how did they have a red image, with a cream color background.  No one quite knows when the patchwork started in the Cook Islands, it has been suggested that it was introduced soon after contact in 1823 by the wives of Tahitian missionaries who helped introduce Christianity to the Cook Islands.