The human form in the round — not a block, a body. Turn it, tip it overhead or underfoot, zoom to a knuckle. Then isolate: the head bust alone for a face tāmoko, one arm alone for a sleeve, the hips and thighs alone for a pūhoro. Pull a template from the pool as your starting point and finish it your way. When it's right — project it true-scale onto the real skin of the mahi, or print it clean at any size.
Te Tinana · the form — full orbit, full zoom, zone isolation
skin eyes ink
nib flow
FULL BODY
drag · turn & tip (overhead / underfoot) — scroll · zoom — pen down on skin · lay the moko
the template pool — touch one to lay it on the zone
real width (cm) screen calibrate slide x slide y
Strokes are kept as living lines, not pixels. Every line you lay is remembered as geometry — change the skin colour and the moko re-sits itself, zoom to any depth and it re-draws crisp, flatten a zone for print and it renders at print sharpness. No jagged edges, ever. The save is real: it keeps on this device and waits for you.
Ngā Kāhua · the template pool — starting points, never cages
Touch templates · the pool. Ten kauae chin templates, mataora face templates, pūhoro sweeps, sleeve wraps — and the mixed designs that can land anywhere on the body: koru, mangōpare, pitau-a-manaia, ngutukākā, kaperua, rautawa. Every template takes your ink colour and nib weight, and every one is a beginning: once it lands, it's yours — draw over it, erase from it, turn it into the thing only you would make. For the formal pattern work — kōwhaiwhai, tukutuku, tāniko, whiriwhiri, raranga — that's the sister studio, Te Rārangi, linked from your kawa page.
Te Whitinga · the way out — project, print, product
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Moko the form
Full body or isolated zone. Spin it, tip it, zoom to the detail. The pen is live on the skin.
two
Flatten the zone
"Flatten zone · print file" unrolls the skin of the active zone into one clean sheet — the whole moko, edge to edge, print-ready at any size.
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Project true-scale
The sheet opens at real centimetres. Calibrate once with a ruler, set the real width, lay the device on wood, stone, plastic — or hold it beside the client — and trace the light.
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Export the view
"Export view PNG" captures the form as it stands — the hero shot for the portfolio, the socials, the shop listing.
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Save, come back
The whole moko — every zone — saves to this device. Close everything. It waits.
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To the shop
The flattened sheet and the hero shot are the product files — pattern pack, design listing, client spec. Nothing to something, on your shelf.
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TE AHO · the prompt line — your thread with the tohunga×
your thread lives on your machine only — it follows you through every space · open your seed ↗