About Māori Tukutuku Panel
Tukutuku are the woven lattice wall panels set between the carvings inside a Māori wharenui (meeting house). Built from vertical kākaho reeds and horizontal kaho laths painted red or black, their patterns are laced in bright pīngao sedge and bleached kiekie into poutama stairsteps, diamonds, and crosses.
This system renders that strict red / white / black craft logic in digital form — a deep red-ochre lath ground, bleached-white kiekie crosswork, soot-black voids, and a single pīngao sand-yellow accent, all locked to a rigid orthogonal grid with flat, matte, woven-reed surfaces.
- Origin
- Aotearoa / New Zealand (Māori, Oceania)
- Era
- pre-1900 (continuing wharenui tradition)
- Key figures
- tukutuku weavers working in pairs · wharenui carving-and-lattice tradition
- Movements
- Māori wharenui art · tukutuku woven-lattice tradition · poutama stepped symbolism
Māori Tukutuku Panel design spec
Colors
Typography
The other 11 sections — buttons, cards, spacing, motion, techniques and more — open once you unlock. Download the DESIGN.md or send it to your AI in one click. Unlock once, yours forever.
Sign up nowStyles similar to Māori Tukutuku Panel
Also inspired by crafts & folk art, with a close feel.