Post #518928 by Polynesiac on Sun, Mar 21, 2010 4:34 PM

On 2010-03-20 19:56, 4WDtiki wrote:
There was a REALLY good thread somewhere here where someone made some great looking fake tapa with just butcher paper and watercolor paint.

Sure is! TIKIVILLE did a real nice job creating one. Here's the link:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=31694&forum=18&hilite=tapa

Also, Howland made some stamps and created his own tapa cloth as well (scroll down a bit on each link to see the tapa stamps):

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20343&forum=18&vpost=298281&hilite=tapa

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20343&forum=18&vpost=332005&hilite=tapa

I don't know what your budget is, but you can get 4x8 lauhala matting pretty cheap

http://www.franksupply.com/tropical_matting.htm#lauhala

Good luck!