Today's artists pair quillwork with beadwork and caribou hair tufting, transforming a tradition into a living art and expanding its use to embellish modern day items such as cell phone cases and ...

The predecessor to beadwork is quillwork, which is using dyed porcupine quills, that's a pre-colonial artwork, which exists today as well. But beadwork, it's just always been something that we ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. At first blush, you might not think Native American beadwork and quillwork would have much in common with contemporary abstract painting. But Dyani ...

“Beadwork is definitely a very time-consuming ... Some designs are passed down from her family (her grandmother Joyce was a quillwork artist); others she creates, she said, using color palettes ...

“Keeping [the backside thread] as clean as the beadwork on the front is important ... (photo by Kealey Boyd/Hyperallergic) Kaiah learned quillwork from a volunteer Ute community member.

Before beadwork, there was quillwork, using cut and dyed porcupine quills to decorate such items as moccasins, bags, and dresses. “The East Coast Indians were some of the first to see beads come ...

"At that time, I saw it as a message to not work with beadwork, to go further back. To go to the roots. And that was quillwork." In her piece for the episode "Reserve," the quillwork is front and ...

The reservation there had a community center that held workshops on the weekends for powwow dancing, beading and quillwork. It was here that she picked up her passion for beadwork. “That was the ...

“I remember making a new [powwow] outfit, and I incorporated quillwork and beadwork into my set. I thought it was the coolest thing.” Though there are many different styles and techniques of ...

Dakota people in what is now Minnesota began using glass beads to decorate clothing, bags, and household items in the mid-nineteenth century. The practice both reinforced and transformed Dakota ...

The cape features 216 hand-quilled and beaded petals. Of the design ... Courtesy of Gucci, Joe Big Mountain of Ironhorse Quillwork, and Lily Gladstone. Image: Mike Coppola/Getty Images Entertainment ...

At special events, she sports regalia beaded with designs and colours inspired ... using designs, colours and quillwork that honor his ancestors. But he often makes more contemporary pieces ...