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| March 19, 2018
- Heather Carrigan is a flax and fibre artist
in Tanowahine near Dargaville in the Kaipara (1,
2).
She
learned
Māori weaving from Veranoa Hetet's online
courses (1,
2),
which
emphasize
both the techniques and skills and Māori
cultural values. |
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The first step in preparing the muka
(fibre) is to scrape the leaves with a mussel
shell.
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Carrigan has a
number of different varieties of New Zealand
flax growing.
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Carrigan sells
much of her work online; she also opened her
gallery and shop about nine months ago.
In addition to bags, she produces a lot of
hand-made flowers. Carrigan is also
songwriter, vocalist and mandolin player on
the all-girl bluegrass band Hot Diggity (+).
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A beautiful
kete whakairo (patterned bag).
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