To cap off Thursday's post, though, I'll share these images of Nashira (Craig and Teri's daughter-in-law) demonstrating how to make the traditional lei's used for the hula dancer's costume. These are made from Ti leaves.
Nashira told me that she freezes the leaves to make them more pliable.
The leaves are cut into trapezoidal sections, which are then worked into the lei.
The cut sections are squeazed in the middle and braided into the growing chain of leaf sections.
It looks pretty complicated to me, but Nashira said it was very easy, but time consuming.
Here's what the braiding looks like.
A detail of the braiding.
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This is so helpful, thanks for posting! Do you know what the girl is braiding the ti leafs with? (The dark green substance)
I thought everything was from the ti plant. The leaves are pretty long.
The dark green is ti leaf that has been frozen to make it soft and pliable.
can u do a video tutorial please of how to braid those ti leaves?
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