Crafting with your own hands is always an amazing experience, but making dreamcatchers comes with a particular sense of mindful craftsmanship.
The act of tying each knot and loop requires patience and care, resulting in works of art from ordinary thread, hoops, and feathers. Hand-made dreamcatchers can be called a tribute to colors, textures, and craft.
The first one has an elegant frame made of periwinkle blue thread and complemented by a delicate black net. In the middle of the dreamcatcher is a bright bead that resembles a little sun with its warm colors.
At the end of the hoop there is a handmade wooden bead with geometric patterns along with several other similar beads going all the way down to the beautiful combination of teal and dark natural feathers.
The second one carries with it more dramatic elements through the use of a vertical arrangement of bright red hoops. The larger and top hoop creates a complicated spider-web like pattern leading to a glowing central bead, which is complemented by another hooped accent just below it.
Red and golden yellow feathers hang down the middle and both sides of the piece while wooden patterned beads and pearl spacers enhance its beauty.
The last dreamcatcher combines all aspects of the previous pieces in an elaborate 3-D chandelier style mobile that is hanging from above. Its purpose is to capture air currents and create a slow spinning effect in the air. It consists of various cascading levels and satellite hoops where hanging strands covered with pearls, carved beads, and multicolored feathers (teal, crimson, and gold feathers) hang below the primary red hoop.
Hand making such works of art is not only an art activity, but it is a means of infusing warmth, color and vitality into one’s home environment. The stories told through each loop of these works of art come alive whether they are mounted on plain walls or floating near windows.
