From Spirit to Spirit: Tui Tuia - Gathering Thread (Episode One)

Because we weave, we weave these bonds of weavers, firmly and securely as one complete whānau.

– Emily Schuster (Te Arawa), early in this documentary

The first piece you always have to give it away, so I gave it to my mother. She’s still got it on her wall.

– National Museum Assistant Curator Megan Tamati-Quennell (Te Atiawa/Ngai Tahu) on her first go at weaving

The sweetness in the spirit of things Māori come to me because of the work that I do in weaving.

– Gaylene Adams (Ngāti Maniapoto)

...I strongly feel, like my mum, that it’s something that should never die; that it should stay with our uri whakatipu mō ake tonu ake..

– Diggeress Te Kanawa (Ngāti Maniapoto), late in this documentary

My first contact with weaving was the smell of flax when I was a child.

– Erenora Puketapu-Hetet (Te Atiawa), at the start of this documentary

There are many lessons to be learnt through weaving…

– Cath Brown (Kati Mamoe, Ngāi Tahu)