Siapo is the Samoan word for a fine cloth made from the bark of the Paper ... The inner-bark (known at this raw stage as tapa) is soaked and softened in water. When it's become slightly pulpy ...

There was a sign that read "Siapo Making", directing visitors to Taumuli's open-style Samoan fale (hut). Siapo (tapa cloth) is another key handicraft in Pacific culture, with distinctive brown ...

Samoa, Niue, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. In one of her earliest memories, Gillies remembers the tapa cloth made by her grandmother that covered the walls of her bedroom from floor to ...