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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. Both even and odd count peyote pieces can be woven as flat strips, in a flat round shape, or as a tube.
Chancay culture tapestry featuring deer, 1000-1450 CE, Lombards Museum Nivaclé textile pouch, collection of the AMNH. The textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are decorative, utilitarian, ceremonial, or conceptual artworks made from plant, animal, or synthetic fibers by Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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.
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Jackie Larson Bread is a Native American beadwork artist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana. [1] Her interest in bead work was sparked from looking at her late-grandmother's beaded pieces. [2] In awe of these objects, Bread self-taught herself how to bead when she was younger and now, she has been beading for more than 20 years.
A bandolier bag is a Native American shoulder pouch, often beaded. Early examples were made from pelts, twined fabrics, or hide, but beginning in the fur trade era , Native American women stitched bags of imported wool broadcloth, lined with cotton calico and often edged with silk ribbons.
Brick stitch is different from other stitches in bead weaving as the beads are attached to the thread in between the beads, not to the last bead added, as in other stitches, or to beads in the previous rows. [3] There are many variations of brick stitch in bead weaving. These include flat brick stitch, circular brick stitch or tubular brick ...
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