Native leaves, flowers and other natural beauty inspire Hawaiian snowflake designs. You can see leaves of the Breadfruit, Papaya, Ti and Palm trees, blossoms of Official State and Island flowers, lilies, Plumeria, Orchids, and plant leaves such as Monstera (Split-Leaf philodendron) and Ferns in Hawaiian designs.
Sometimes the artist will use images of animals such as the dolphin and sea turtle, or renderings of ancient rock carvings which are called Petroglyphs.
Purpose of this site is to provide a brief introduction to Hawaiian Quilt art craft activities for children (young and old) in the hopes of piquing interest for further investigation into the fascinating history of Hawaiian Quilting.
Hawaiian Snowflakes art web site provides fairly accurate, black and white, artist renditions or illustrations of historic Hawaiian art designs as well as whimsical of my own creation for young children to print and color. Parents and teachers may use these images for creating lesson plans and other educational purposes.
The historic examples of traditional Hawaiian Quilt art images in this web site are based upon common public domain images and items currently on display in public museums and in historical reference material. These images are artist renditions however, and are definitely not identical copies, scientifically, historically accurate or drawn to scale representations.
Some images in this site are based upon existing, historical petroglyph sand drawings and other art works currently on display in national public parks, museums and in 'out of print' reference material, dating back at least 100 years or more to avoid infringement of any copyright or intellectual property rights. If you notice an error or an infringement of copyright please let me know and I will make the correction.
These pages contain printable Snowflake Patterns to help you get started making your own paper Hawaiian Snowflakes.
Use paper and scissors to design and create your own unique family Hawaiian Snowflake Patterns and Appliqués.
