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Pacific Educational Conference
Pre-Conference
By Arvay Siafuna |
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Appreciation of traditional plants to sew an ula spurs a person to admire the beauties of nature, always with the eye of seeing an end product, garnering the eyes of the admirers. Tiger lily, whose broad root base rises up, holding its bundle of long yellowish-orange elongated leaves, surprises and delights the unaware. Though unusually covered with a sheath of dried stem coverlet, the light green layer enveloping its base - when cut, removed, shaped into rectangles, peeled, and separated - are individually sewn, usually reflecting the brilliance of white glistening snow.
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Like a tailor, the maker of the ula envisions how a warm yellowish-orange leaf would look, cut-sewn and contrasted against a glossy white rectangle, folded at the ends, pressed together and sewn, one after another, forming a tapestry of designs limited only by one’s desire or initiative.
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Beautiful, shimmery red petals of a Teuila blossom, adored by many for its red intense blushing color, are plucked and snipped into delightful single petals, daring to be strung with the contrasting white and warmness of the yellowish-orange hues, awaiting to compliment the wearer of the ula.
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