Ulakalaka
• Tuesday, May 31st, 2011ulakalaka
- (adj.) patterned
- (v.) to be patterned
- (n.) patterning
- (n.) pattern
Leya ulaka le olomo.
“Patterned stones for walking.”
Notes: My English vocabulary is leaving me! I know what I mean by “patterning”, but I’m quite certain there’s got to be a better word for it. Patternwork? Dang, that’s not a word. Detail? Eh. I got nothing.
Anyway, this sentence comes from a picture I took at the Huntington. Here it is:
I thought this was pretty cool. Not only is it, essentially, a cobblestone floor, but the stones are used to create patterns that look like tile! How cool is that?! Check it out: All the lines in there and everything are just stones. Wild!