The Flaxmere woman who can weave a wahakura in 45 minutes 30 Apr, 2021 05:30 AM 3 minutes to read Katarina May weaves harakeke wahakura from her Flaxmere garage turned studio. Photo / Paul Taylor About six years ago Katarina May took up a weaving class and found she loved it. Her family's doctor and friend David Tipene-Leach, now a Māori and indigenous research professor at EIT, encouraged her to learn how to weave wahakura and as soon as she learnt how to make them, she fell in love the tradition of it. Read More Weaving them moved from being a craft, to something she did full-time.