Te Kawa o Tūwaerea · studio four
The formal pattern arts: kōwhaiwhai, tukutuku, tāniko, whiriwhiri, raranga. Pull a plate from the whare's template library — koru, koiri, patiki, mangōpare, pitau-a-manaia, puhoro, rautawa, kaperua, ngutukākā, mangotipi — trace it, change it, recolour it, or lay your own over the grid. Then seamless out: tile it, export it print-sharp, and it is a product on your shelf.
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Touch any plate in the library — it slides under your board at tracing brightness, perfectly registered to the grid. Or start clean.
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Your lines are kept as living geometry — snap to grid for tukutuku truth, freehand for kōwhaiwhai flow. Three inks plus ground, changeable any time, everything re-sits.
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"Tile ×3" shows the seamless repeat — what leaves the left edge enters the right. That is the law of the band.
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The 4K export renders your geometry at product resolution — no jagged edges, ever. Wall print, fabric run, laser etch, tattoo flash — one file feeds them all.
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The export IS the product file: pattern packs, band designs, panel art. List it, sell it, no shipping, no stock. Nothing → something → shelf.
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Want it on a body? The sister studio takes the same inks — bands for arms and thighs live there. Two studios, one hand.