My Kowhiawhia

This term we have been doing kowhiawhia patterns.These are some of the rules for making this type of art.The main colours are red,white and black, so it is prefered to not use bright colours such as pink and purple. It also has to be symmetrical which means the shape is the same on each side and thery all have to be the same side and an even space apart.to make sure our shapes where the same size we cut our design out on a bit of card and traced around them a few times depending on how big we wanted to make them. A kowhiawhia is normally made up of a koru repeated to make a cool strip of art. This curtain type of art connects to maths a little bit because you are translating, flipping, rotating and reflect.

I had heaps of fun doing this and I would recommend trying this sometime!