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Māori Tukutuku Panel — Cover

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.

Learn more about the Māori Tukutuku Panel style

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

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

OswaldHeadings
Noto Sans DisplayBody
Bebas NeueMono
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