Native American Beading

Register By: Tuesday before class
Project- Introduction to Native American Beading This class will be held every 1st Thursday through September
While each class will blend together depending on students’ completion of project.
Each class is $35 and kits will be available for purchase. (see Below)

Classes will be held every first Thursday of the Month and returning students will pay a $20 fee please call or email and let us know you will be attending. [email protected] or 509-229-3414

The barrette focuses on learning the technique and has been carefully designed to teach each element of the craft. You will have homework and will need at least 2-3 classes to complete project. Once you complete the barrette, other projects will be advertised, for example: wrap stitch, lazy stitch, the common stitch, looming without a loom. All which will teach you how to create your own pieces of art.

Deborah Clairmont (Medicine Prayer Woman) will introduce Native American beading, explaining the history of beads and how the Native American’s used them. Her first project will be to make a beaded barrette or pin. Each month, Medicine Prayer Woman will introduce different techniques and projects for the artist to create their own art.

Deborah a descendant of the Muskogee and French Canadian Cree Tribes has been beading for 59 years starting when she was 8 years old. Her talents include many beading techniques, leather working, and other art forms. Author of ‘Medicine Prayer Woman- My Spiritual Journey Revisited” (books available ‘At the Dahmen Barn’).

$25 barrette /kit comes: pattern, piece of brain tanned leather, 2 hanks (tubes) of beads, 4 beading needles, pelon or felt, bobbin of thread.