Using river cane, students will learn to make a traditional flute. Students will also have an option to embellish their flute with beads by taking a peyote stitch class following the flute workshop. This is an African design using 4 sizes of seed beads. The beads sit directly above, below, and beside each other, allowing for straight horizontal and vertical lines. The stitch works particularly well with cylinder seed beads.
Square stitch is extremely strong.
There are so many threads passing through each bead that there's virtually no chance of it falling apart. Learn how to make your own personal Dream Catcher the traditional way using artificial sinew and a grape vine wreath. The legend of the Dream Catcher is believed to have originated with the Oneida Indians. Hung over your bed, dream catchers allow good dreams to flow through the spirit hole in the center of its web. Bad dreams are trapped in the web and then disappear with the morning sun.