Workshops at the Bois Forte Heritage Center & Cultural Museum have been a blast! On Nov. 12, the Center hosted a Dreamcatcher Workshop with Theresa Morrison as the main instructor.
Before the class, Jess Anderson, the museum’s Language and Cultural Coordinator, had harvested red willow branches, which is what is commonly used to make the dreamcatcher frame.
Morrison shared step by step instructions on how to wrap the red willow around itself to make a circle while taking off excess stems from the main branch. Excess pieces can later be used to make smaller dreamcatchers. Next, each participant was given sinew, a thread made of animal tissue, to make the web inside the red willow circle. Participants were told to tie the sinew right to the frame, then to move it over to another part of the frame with a lock stitch knot until the whole circle was completed.
From there, they lock stitched the sinew around the first round that was made, all the way to the center.
On Nov. 21, participants gathered for a Beadwork Workshop where persons could bring projects they were already working on, or come in as beginning learners to start a new project with Morrison.
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