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 aremost often worn around the head or on a hat.
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2. Hili
Hili are braided lei made from a single plant material such as ti leaf or maile .
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3. Humupapa
Flowers are sewn onto plant material such as dried banana leaves, or lau hala .
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4. Kui
Today’s most familiar lei –flowers strung together with needle and thread.
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5. Kīpu’u
Short lengths of vines or long-stemmed leaves are knotted together.
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6. Wili
Plant materials are attached to a natural backing by winding fiber around them. Wili lei have no knots until the very end.
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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.
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8. Lei Pūpū (Shell Lei)
These range from pukashell lei , wildly popular in the 1970s, to museum-quality Ni’ihau-shelllei , worth many thousands of dollars.
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9. Seed Lei
Simple, single-stranded Job’s Tears and intricately crafted wiliwili-seed lei are popular examples of this type.
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10. Contemporary Lei
From silk and ribbon to yarn, currency, and even candy, contemporary lei are made for every occasion.
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