CELLAR MEMBER ART GALLERY

[wolf]

This is a more conventional piece ... It's a prayer feather. They are used in Native American ceremonials for a variety of purposes, but most often for directing the smoke from a smudge bowl.



Detail of the beadwork:

[wolf]

I'd mentioned in Doodad's that I make dreamcatchers. Some of them are large, some of them are tiny. This is a tiny one. The circle is a wooden hoop with an interior diameter of one inch. The wood is covered in beadwork, divided by lines representing the four directions. The Web is formed out of the same beading thread that the beads are attached to the circle with. It's about the same thickness as common sewing thread. The stones on the necklace are turquoise chips.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Whoa nellie, I like that one, Wolf. Beautiful, absolutely stunning.

[Griff]

Originally posted by warch
Griff, when you were designing did you have any engineering consultations at all? Or did you just go by the books? Were there builders around that you learned from? Also, from what precedents did you borrow? What structures were you looking at when thinking up yours? (you should post a new pick of that lovely hearth.)

(griff is completely tanked so cut him some slack.)
Zero zip nada. Just the books and a great deal of wandering around in old barns. I know some guys now who know a lot about the old ways but my house is how I made my introductions. Its kind of a cool club which my little brother drunkin greenie sob just spent the last four hours trying to convince me to embrace. The buildings around here were paid for by Connetimicallit speculators but obviously built by folks with a background in ship building. The barns were meant for threshing wheat etc... which accounts for their large central floor which happens to make a nice living area if you convert them. More when I'm sensible