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Offline primitivepaulette

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Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« on: January 29, 2013, 10:52:08 am »
Well this isn't very good crafting.. lol.. but it's something! Guess one of these days I will start trying to craft again.. try working with the quills again! I certainly will never be able to do it ever if I don't ever try! So I started out with some quills.. some road killed porcupine I picked up one day!
Not so good at dyeing them, either!

Having decided that I was pretty bad at the usual quill working I then decided that I would try wrap some fringe with it.. lol.. not really great at that, either but I will think I had a little more success doing that so I will be sure to master the wrapping first.. I am sure that the skin you are wrapping matters a great deal too.. so.. perhaps the next fringe I wrap will be of 'different' size and weight buck skin!
Daughter was living out in AZ several years ago now but she brought back some very interesting skin and meat for me to try. http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/cool.gif Tastes like chicken!
So I used some of that to make an iPhone case. It definitely has a primitive look to it.. well the materials.. not necessarily the way I put it all together but I really liked that checkered part and wanted to use it somehow.

Well that bag kind of then led to me making this bag.. lol… or it could have been the other way around.. can't recall anymore! been a little while!

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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2013, 01:01:36 pm »
I like those, real nice. :)
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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 02:28:24 pm »
Those are BAD A**
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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2013, 04:42:35 pm »

     Excellent!!  :o  The cell phone case would be cool with the the snake head on the cover flap! 8) ;)

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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2013, 06:38:36 pm »
The quillwork takes lots of practice and patience.  I started out with small stuff when I started it.  Who am I kidding, i am still doing small stuff.  The pouches look great.

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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2013, 06:42:57 pm »
Looks good to Me Paulette ! Bob
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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2013, 05:27:36 am »
Very cool,almost make the cell look primitive. ;) :)
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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2013, 08:59:15 am »
Again Paulette, very nice.  Sure like your work.
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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2013, 01:58:22 pm »
Very nice,beautiful work.

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Re: Quillwork and Rattlesnake Pouches
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2013, 09:04:50 pm »
very nice work Paulette,
quill work is tedious and looks like you are getting a good feel for it
 i can't even imagine doing moosehair embroidery that my Wendat cousins did in Quebec. I guess it was flattened the same way,in the mouth.

those skin bags are reeelie reeeelie nice.  i always thought fried rattlesnake tasted a lot like frog legs.
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