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Express Yourself With Beadwork

Beadwork is the art or craft of attachingexpressions of Native American traditional
beads to one another or to cloth using acultural  arts.
needle and thread. Beadwork is the most
traditional form of Indian art. Beadwork isJewelry
often found only on prestige items due to its
costly labor intensive demands. Beadwork isEach piece of jewellery, in its shape,
the form a woman will often choose when apatterns, and colors, speaks of the wearer's
most special gift is called for; the beadedculture. Those using beading as a hobby can
object is love made visible. Today's modernderive satisfaction from being able to make
beaders are using traditional beads andsimple beaded jewellery for grandchildren or
material to create their own jewelry,friends. Beading activities in therapy have
including necklaces, bracelets, and earbeen associated mostly with children, but
rings.with the surge in popularity of beaded
jewellery over the last several years,
Beadsbeadwork has become an acceptable adult craft
intervention.
Beads were carved and shaped of animal horn,
turtle shell, and deer hooves, and evenBeadwork is also used in purses, jewellery,
modern plastics. Beads have also been usedpicture frames and other whimsies. Most of
for religious purposes, as good luckthe finest beadwork is still done only for
talismans, and as curative agents. Beadsrelatives and gift giveaways. With a host of
range in size from under a millimeter to overdifferent styles, colors, materials and
a centimeter. Beads are truly universal, andcrafting techniques, Native American Beadwork
are among the oldest items manufactured byis known for its beauty, its craftsmanship,
humans.however it plays a crucial role in the
ceremonies and traditions of the Native
NativeAmerican people as well as helps preserve the
culture and traditions of the numerous tribes
Native women were inspired to invent beadworkwithin North America. It is sometimes
techniques unknown to Europeans, as well asdifficult to decide whether beadwork is a
beautiful and sometimes spiritually orcraft, an art, a communicational system
historically-inspired culturally uniquesimilar in principle to a written language or
designs. Native American beadwork can bepart of a symbolic code used for their own
carved from shells, coral, stones, animalpurposes by specialists in traditional magic.
bones and other materials, reflecting theWe here in America should acknowledge a debt
Native Americans deep relationship with theof gratitude to Native Americans (as the
earth and mother nature. Native Americanclosest people to us, with unique and
beadwork examples have been found foroutstanding beadwork traditions), while
centuries, dating back to their arrival inrespecting the facts that the new beadwork is
North America long before the first of whatnot of itself "Indian", nor necessarily
would be many settlers arrived in the late"Indian-based", and that beadwork everywhere
1400's from Europe and elsewhere. Nativeis admirable.
American Indian beadwork is one of the finest



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