 Makers stripped and scraped flax to provide the muka (inner flax fibre), which was twisted into two strands to make the taura (cord) as well as the aho (ties).A large knot was tied at one end of the cord, around which the core was formed from the pithy middle of the raupō stem.Dampened strips of raupō stems were then wrapped around the ball and tied off around the cord, forming the covering .