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Maori flax weaving can only be learnt the old way, by sitting, by listening, by touching and by doing. Start with a full leaf and pull off the hard midrib. Split it into strips of an even width right across the leaf. Before weaving, you have to soften the strips by shell or the blunt edge of a butter knife. Scrape the flax in each direction, pulling to the end of the strip each way. Hold the shiny side of the leaf facing you with the stalk pointing downwards.
The hard part, however, will be undoing it once you have tied your own hands. Place the rope of string onto a table. Pull it straight and lay it perpendicular to you, so it is lying horizontally in front of you. Create a loop large enough for both your hands to fit into it. Do not knot it, but create the first tie of the string. Slip your nondominant hand into the loop. Leave your dominant hand outside of the loop momentarily. Use your dominant hand to create the second tie of the string, forming a knot if you were to pull it more tightly. Do not pull it yet. Place your dominant hand in the loop next to your nondominant hand.