Hāna Lauhala & Koa

Hāna Lauhala & Koa is a two-bench shop at the end of the Hāna highway, where ʻAnela Pā‘ahana weaves lauhala — the prepared leaf of the hala tree — and her partner Sam turns bowls and boards from fallen koa they mill themselves.

The lauhala is stripped, de-thorned, sun-cured, and rolled by hand before any weaving starts; a single lau hat is days of work. The koa is all salvage — storm-fall and county-cleared trees — never standing timber, and each piece is signed underneath with the date it was felled.

Nothing here is fast and nothing here is anonymous. ʻAnela will tell you which tree your bowl came from.