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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.
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Nashira told me that she freezes the leaves to make them more pliable.
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The leaves are cut into trapezoidal sections, which are then worked into the lei.
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The cut sections are squeazed in the middle and braided into the growing chain of leaf sections.
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It looks pretty complicated to me, but Nashira said it was very easy, but time consuming.
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Here's what the braiding looks like.
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A detail of the braiding.
4 comments:
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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