Little Crow Beading and Dreamcatchers

Éy swayél mewk'wat! Good day everyone. I just wanted to share some of the process of making this piece. This is all on top of my full-time job as a First Nations Support worker at an elementary school and taking a language class. But I love beading as I feel a direct connection to the Ancestors when I am creating a piece work. I'm always praying when I'm beading. After I received the vision to bead this story, it took me 2 days to graph and plan the layout. I don't use a comp...uter to graph any of my designs, it's all on paper. Then 11 weeks of beadwork with any spare time I have. Then, delicately sewing the four panels together to make them as seamless as possible. I then weave in all 432 warp ends and sew onto wool melton. Then to finish it off, I processed cedar bark I harvested last year and placed it around the border sewn on with abolone shell buttons. It's now at the framer! Xyolhemethetchap, you all take care See more

I'm finished! The name of this piece is, Sx_wox_wíyam X_á:ls qas te X_pá:y Thqá:t. (Stories from the Ancient people, The Transformer and the Cedar tree.) This i...s a Stó:Lo creation story that I was compelled to tell through my beadwork. The story from top to bottom, X_áls, The Transformer. Transformation of man to cedar tree. The four stages of transformation/ growth. Mother Earth, cedar trees are rooted in Mother earth. Water, cedar trees are always found near water features. This piece took me 11 weeks to bead and 1 more week to sew onto the melton, process the cedar and sew on the buttons. Beaded on my traditional loom with 10/0 Czech glass seed beads. It has 67,608 beads and measures 29 inches length by 15 inches in width. It has cedar bark around the border, which I harvested and processed, finished off with abolone shell buttons. I have sewn it onto wool melton. https://youtu.be/H_lVHL4eYqM See more

My page has reached 500 likes! Thank you to everyone who likes and supports my page! I will be doing a live draw, for this handmade dreamcatcher, on Sunday, February 7, at 11am PST of with all 500 people in the draw!! Good luck all

Happy new year all! All beaded on my traditional loom, it has 61, 776 beads. The piece has been sewn onto melton, has shell buttons sewn around the border and is on its way to the framer. The story from bottom to top. This piece was made specific to my family's traditional fishing area on the Stó:L ( Fraser river)... Stó:L Tselhxwélmexw Chth'óqwi sqwéqwel -Water feature Stó:L -Female spring salmon backbone -Male spring salmon backbone -Fishing net -Salmon -Double ended canoes -Paddle pattern -Mountains -Sky -Unfolding fern, represents the continuation of culture -Thunderbird, one for myself, husband and six children

The name of this piece is, Stó:L Tselhxwélmexw Chth'óqwi sqwéqwel. Stó:L family Fishing story. This is a Coast Salish style beaded wall hanging. It's a blend of my Anishinaabe culture and my husband's Stó:L culture. His, and our 6 children's, Ancestors have been fishing the Stó:L for thousands of years, and this is a tribute to it. ... I also love challenging myself. I knew I wanted to create a large piece and I knew it had to be a story. Before I started, I did an offering and prayers for the vision to come to me. I beaded this piece on my traditional loom with 10/0 preciosa Czech glass seed beads. It has a total of 61,776 beads and 450 yards of thread. It took me 8 weeks and 200 hours to bead and 8 hours to graph and plan the layout. I'm just working on weaving in all the warp ends, then I'll be sewing it to black melton and sewing shell buttons around the border.

*SOLD* $20 for the pair. These are Christmas tree 5 point, dreamcatchers. Each is 2 inches in diameter. The rings are wrapped in red satin ribbon and the web is made with sparkling green cord, with green feather embellishments

This is the exhibition that, myself, and 12 other Indigenous beadwork artists will be featured in! Métèque atelier d’art invites you to a virtual vernissage of the group exhibit of beading by thirteen Indigenous artists entitled Bead by Bead. This diverse show encompasses post modern expressions of Indigeneity, fashion jewellery and powwow regalia dedicated to MMIWG. Each artist in this exhibit has a unique voice as an Indigenous artist or artisan and this is reflected not o...nly in the quality of the work being presented, but in the diversity of who these First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists represent. The show reflects our ties to this land, our languages, our values about relationship building, our aesthetic traditions and our contemporary realities as Indigenous peoples living on colonized territories. The show features both established and emerging artists. The show runs at Métèque, in Montreal, from Nov. 18th to Dec. 6th and is open to the public. The virtual vernissage/ exhibit opening will feature introductions by both the gallery staff and the guest curators, Marg Boyle and Marlene Hale; as well as the initiator of this show, Phillip Deering of the Bead Man Emporium and Julia Ovando of Native Immigrant. We invite artists, their families and friends, and the general public to join us on zoom from 4 pm to 5pm on November 18th, to celebrate our artists in Bead by Bead! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76795051632 Meeting ID: 767 9505 1632 Passcode: 4B9n64