{"id":54,"date":"2014-11-30T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-01-24T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T08:30:07","slug":"the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"The Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is where I like to harvest harakeke. \u00a0It is near here that\u00a0I have been able to find harakeke\u00a0that yields\u00a0\u00a0wonderful muka.\u00a0It is also near where I grew up.<\/p>\n

My\u00a0Great Great Grandfather\u00a0was involved in the flax milling industry in Foxton from\u00a0the 1890’s. \u00a0A quote from a story about him on ‘Kete Horowhenua<\/a>‘<\/strong> says:
\n“Abraham never tired of emphasising the fact that fibre production was the oldest industry in New Zealand, having been started by the Maori people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been interested in traditional weaving for a long\u00a0time. \u00a0I had bought\u00a0every book I could find on the subject and tried to teach myself from the books.
\nI had attended exhibitions, watched weavers at work and marveled at the beautiful taonga their weaving skills produced.
\nI sent hours watching at one\u00a0special demonstration at Te Papa. \u00a0I was fascinated by the beautiful hands and work of one of the weavers who was weaving a Kahu Kiwi. \u00a0She showed me how she prepared the kiwi feathers. \u00a0She explained that because the kiwi feathers were so fine that she used a little dab of soap to bind three feathers together and would make many hundreds of these little bundles before she began working on the cloak. I\u00a0remember her saying that feathers were usually woven in so that they sat neatly and flat against the body of the cloak but with kiwi she would weave them with\u00a0the natural curve of the feather outward so that you get a\u00a0wonderful sense of movement as the Kahu Kiwi is worn.
\nThe other lasting impression I have of this beautiful woman is one of gentleness, calm and patience. \u00a0I didn’t know her name until\u00a0several years down the track, after I began\u00a0to learn weaving with a real live tutor instead of out of a book.
\nI then discovered just how lucky I had been to have had that encounter and that her name was Erenora Puketapu Hetet<\/a>.
\nMy Teacher was her Daughter Veranoa Hetet.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have noted how much of an inspiration Veranoa\u00a0has been in a blog I started last year during November when I decided to do the challenge of posting a blog entry for each day of the month. \u00a0I surprised myself by keeping up with this endeavour and managed to post something everyday (well, almost everyday – I missed just one day).<\/p>\n

I called the blog ‘Whatu – Raranga’<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is where I like to harvest harakeke. \u00a0It is near here that\u00a0I have been able to find harakeke\u00a0that yields\u00a0\u00a0wonderful muka.\u00a0It is also near where I grew up. My\u00a0Great Great Grandfather\u00a0was involved in the flax milling industry in Foxton from\u00a0the 1890’s. \u00a0A quote from a story about him on ‘Kete …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}