enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: native american beading patterns

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_arts_of_the...

    Textile arts and fiber arts include fabric that is flexible woven material, as well as felt, bark cloth, knitting, embroidery, [1] featherwork, skin-sewing, beadwork, and similar media. Textile arts are one of the earliest known industries. [1] Basketry is associated with textile arts. [2]

  3. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts_of_the...

    Examples of contemporary Native American beadwork. Beadwork is a quintessentially Native American art form, but ironically uses beads imported from Europe and Asia. Glass beads have been in use for almost five centuries in the Americas.

  4. Beadwork - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beadwork

    Native American beadwork, already established via the use of materials like shells, dendrite, claws, and bone, evolved to incorporate glass beads as Europeans brought them to the Americas beginning in the early 17th century. [20] [21] Native beadwork today heavily utilizes small glass beads, but artists also continue to use traditionally ...

  5. Brick stitch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_stitch

    Brick Stitch, also known as the Cheyenne Stitch or Comanche Stitch, is a bead weaving stitch in which individual beads are stacked horizontally in the same pattern as bricks are stacked in a wall. The technique has been used by Native Americans and in Africa, the Middle East and South America. Guatemalan examples use beads of size 22/0 and ...

  6. Wampum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampum

    Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.

  7. Peyote stitch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote_stitch

    Example of Native American peyote stitch from Oklahoma. The peyote stitch, also known as the gourd stitch, is an off-loom bead weaving technique. Peyote stitch may be worked with either an even or an odd number of beads per row.

  8. Bead embroidery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead_embroidery

    Bead embroidery is a type of beadwork that uses a needle and thread to stitch beads to a surface of fabric, suede, or leather. Bead embroidery is an embellishment that does not form an essential part of a textile's structure. In this respect, bead embroidery differs from bead weaving, bead crochet, and bead knitting. Woven, knitted, and ...

  9. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_weaving

    Evan M. Maurer, "Determining Quality in Native American Art" in The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution, ed. Paul Anbinder, New York: Philbrook Art Center, 1986. Marian E. Rodee, Old Navajo Rugs: Their Development from 1900 to 1940, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.

  1. Ads

    related to: native american beading patterns