Textile arts of Hawaii

loose-fitting short-sleeve shirts of brightly colored fabric in tropical prints

thumb|Alphonse Pellion, Îles Sandwich; Maisons de Kraïmokou, Premier Ministre du Roi; Fabrication des Étoffes (c. 1819), Depicting High Chiefess Likelike (wife of Kalanimoku)|Likelike, the wife of [[Kalanimoku beating kapa cloth.]] Kapa is a fabric made by native Hawaiians from the bast fibres of certain species of trees and shrubs in the orders Rosales and Malvales. The bark is beaten and felted to achieve a soft texture and dye stamped in geometric patterns.

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