Whakarākai

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To adorn, decorate, enhance, embellish.

This applies to both the act of making and wearing jewellery. 

It talks about the getting ready person that puts on their favourite pants and selects the jewellery that feels right for the occasion before leaving the house, and who gets excited about new earrings, and also the maker that needs to add rows of little gold rivets to a perfectly respectable, grownup, formal taimana shaped pendant.

Frances Stachl

August 2022

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