DK Travel : Honolulu & O’ahu : Top 10 Lei Styles

Honolulu & O’ahu : Top 10 Lei Styles

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1. Haku

Flowers, leaves, or fruit are braided onto three strands of ti or other natural fiber. Haku lei are most often worn around the head or on a hat.
2. Hili

Hili are braided lei made from a single plant material such as ti leaf or maile .
3. Humupapa

Flowers are sewn onto plant material such as dried banana leaves (lau hala ).
4. Kui

Today’s most familiar lei – flowers strung together with needle and thread.
5. Kīpu’u

Short lengths of vines or long-stemmed leaves are knotted together.
6. Wili

Plant materials are attached to a natural backing by winding fiber around them. Wili lei have no knots until the very end.
7. Lei Hulu (Feather Lei)

Traditionally made of feathers from now mostly extinct or endangered native birds, the art continues using feathers from common birds.
8. Lei Pūpū (Shell Lei)

These range from puka-shell lei , wildly popular in the 1970s, to museum-quality Ni’ihau-shell lei , worth many thousands of dollars.
9. Seed Lei

Simple, single-stranded Job’s Tears and intricately crafted wiliwili-seed lei are popular examples of this type.
10. Contemporary Lei

From silk and ribbon to yarn, currency, and even candy, contemporary lei are made for every occasion.