The Wandering Bull, LLC are suppliers of Native American Craft Supplies, Vintage and Antique Native Art with a focus on the Northeast Woodlands. Family owned and operated for over 50 years, we are located in Washington, NH.
In addition to offering the best quality supplies essential to our customers, we also offer our own line of products ranging from bead looms to beautiful hand-crafted One of Kind items. At The Wandering Bull, we pride ourselves on our internet presence and customer service. We not only sell our products, we use and stand behind what we sell. Our website is updated weekly with new products, special sales and those one of a kind items that can’t be found anywhere else! We offer as many items that are Made in the USA as possible and indicate whether our products are made by Native American crafters.
If sailors want a knot to prevent a line from slipping through an eye, they will use a stopper knot or figure eight knot. It's like a double overhand knot.
When making infant mocs, is the front and the back measured the same with a two finger measurement for the front and one for the back or is there a different way to measure?
Hello, thanks for watching! We have not tried to dye real sinew. It may be possible with a natural walnut dye. But unsure, we will have to try some day.
I've learned so much from your videos. The eastern woodland moccs. (They turned out beautiful!) Lane stitch quillwork.(Need more practice). Regular moccasins using the two finger spacing method. (Success) The gustaweh is on my list. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
We use one gallon of water per one package of dry rit dye to 4 ounces of natural quills. Boil the water, add the dye mix it well, add the quills, try to keep them under the water, keep turning over the quills. Depends on the color on how long it take. The darker colors are about 20 minutes to simmer. Dry them real well before you use them.
Def not telling you how to do your thing but a wing fan lasts a lot longer if you skin out those bones and rebuild that structure with cedar or another wood. Pacc that area with salt.. it will prevent decay. I glue that wooden structure into that cavity to replicate the support of the bones provided. From there I sew on a handle much like you demonstrate though I do sew the top through the wing itself instead of gluing it. Be careful on that step tho because if not done properly the feathers can shift slightly though it does provide a much tighter fit than glue will provide. Some tips...
Most are from my personal collection - Native American Art, Spirits in the Art, Pleasing the Spirits, The Spirit Sings, The Blackfeet, Art of the American Indian Frontier, Objects of Myth & Memory and the last one we do have for sale on our website - Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes. We have a large selection of books you may find helpful as well.
Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing, brother! Hey everyone, show a brother some love with a 👍like, I see a ton of views and very few likes,😢jus' sayin', 💙✌️🤗 ya'll!
Thank you so much for these videos! My best friend is from a First Nations tribe and recently got back into beading, so I've been gifting her as much supplies as I can afford since I love her (and her husband) lots lol. I have no experience with native crafts and had no idea how any of this is done, so these videos gave me a really good idea of what I can gift her in the future. Even just bead colours, sizes, backing materials, etc. I've even bought a few small things for myself to try and am now even more impressed with how delicate and skillful you need to be to create such gorgeous pieces. Thanks so much again for sharing such wonderful resources, even for people outside of the beading art/craft space it's been so helpful!
I don't see the point in the construction method. What is wrong with making a pattern and sewing it on? It would be good if could show actual objects made my native people to compare
Hey, thanks for watching! There are many ways of making a fan, this is the method I use. Another popular method used today is with Bondo. Another way would be to use the whole tail of the bird and wrap leather around the bone covering about three inches of the feather quills and sewing it together.
