Post #803384 by tikiskip on Wed, May 4, 2022 3:39 PM

Man, I bet I have the same one here wanting to do the same thing, but damn it would be a big light.

Even back then they did not use a lot of Tapa most times it was like small cut up squares or triangles.

I did go online Esty and buy a small piece of tapa to get ahead of the difficulty to find Tapa that may come and about fifty bucks to my door for a small piece was about as good as I could get.

And they do still make it I would bet as they make their money off it, the patterns are unique to each family and is there style alone.

Sometimes groups of people work on one large sheet at a time then cut it up for each person that worked on it.

They need to grow the trees and cut and trim them over time to make the bark be the way they need it to make Tapa, so it takes a long time and effort to make that stuff.

I take off sheets of the bark paper when I make a light out of Tapa so it will let the light shine through better.

That tip right there is worth the price of admission.