This week, news came that a Fabulously Exuberant and Rather Wonderful building will open up on December 1st in Waikato Museum in Hamilton.
Wharenui Harikoa (House of Joy) is the idea of Lissy Robinson-Cole and husband Rudi Robinson. Together the pair hatched the idea of creating a crocheted meeting house – a wharenui – out of neon coloured yarns and polycarbonate with aluminium supports. Crediting their tipuna – ancestors – with the gift of the idea, the pair worked with a local company, Everlight, to create the structure and then covered it with crochet.
A marae – the name given to an entire complex of buildings including the wharenui – looks like this. Use your cursor and click through the entryway to see the wharenui in front, then click on the building to go inside it. You will see the panels, pillars and rafters, decorated with stories and motifs as well as portraits on the walls. Then head on over to this story where you can see the crocheted version. For those who have an iPad you can download an app too.
Joy doesn’t come much bigger than this, does it?!
Image supplied.
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