Prisoner collar - $350.00
Woven from hemp cordage. Design from an original at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Hand rolled brass cones, madder-dyed deerhair tassels and quillwrapped ends. Box braided ropes are about 10' feet long withe chain knots like on some original pieces. Collar is about 1 1/4" by 16". SOLD Click on image to enlarge

Tumpline - $450.00
This piece is a combination of design and technique from two different originals. Strap design is adapted from the "Guthman" moosehair embroidered hornstrap (apparently a cutdown tumpline). The tails are done with a diagonal warpface weave rather than an oblique weave. By using two colors of "warp" the spiral effect is created. This is taken from some tumplines in the Museé du Quai-Branly in France. Strap is approx. 2"x22" and the tails are 10'long with the last 3' split into two. Click on image to enlarge. SOLD

Strap - $450.00
Horn or bag strap. 1 1/2" x 48" The beads are woven into this strap to create the design. This type of weaving is good for all time periods going back as far as the 1740's. The brown color is achieved with madder root dye as are the more well known madder reds. The different color comes from how the dye bath is prepared and changes in heat. Braintan thongs for attaching to a horn included on request. Click on image to enlarge.

Strap - $350.00
Bag or hornstrap 1 1/2" x 48" Madder red with a narrow black selvedge and a simple slash pattern created from beads woven in. Includes thongs on request. Click image to enlarge. SOLD

Strap - $550.00
Bag or hornstrap Approx. 2" x 46" Stylized "ottertail" design. The otter was seen as a creature of both land and water and was a swift and cunning hunter. Madder-dyed small yarns with bead woven in. Thongs included on request. Click image to enlarge. SOLD

Sash - $950.00
Madder-dyed sash with beads woven in. Approx. 3 1/2" x 33" with 30" fringes. Long fringes for tying are the most common seen on original sashes, with the woven part short enough to go around the waist only once or even shorter on the 'earlier' style, oblique woven pieces. Even the later and longer (twice around) Assomption sashes had the long fringes. Click on image to enlarge.

Deerfield sash - $625.00
A version of a sash from the Memorial Hall Collection at Deerfield, MA. To keep the cost down this sash is 3 x 32 plus fringes, rather than the 72" w/o fringes like the original. The shorter length is in keeping with most surviving sashes from the 18th century. "Eunice Kanenstehawi Williams and her husband Arosen reportedly gave this sash to Eunice's brother, the Reverend Stephen Williams of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Eunice and Stephen had both been captives of the 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, but Eunice elected to remain with her Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) family at Kahnawake in Canada. Date: 1700 - 1750 Topic: Personal Materials: Wool, beads, hemp Dimensions: L: 72 in.(182.8 cm.), W: 3 in.(7.6 cm.) Accession #: IR.A.24" Madder dyed and beads woven in on hemp thread like the original.

RMSC Sash - $650.00
This sash is from one at the Rochester Museum & Science Center in Roch., NY It is believed to date from before 1750. Woven from small black yarn with the beads on heavy thread rather than strands of yarn. A very interesting piece because the zigzag at the edges goes to the outside strand. This is rarely if ever seen on other pieces. Sash body is 3" wide like the original and 36" long. It has 30" fringes. SOLD

Twined Bag - $Sold
Open twined bag done with hemp cordage. Approx. 9" wide by 8 1/2 " deep. Fabric and bags done by this method were very common. The weave techniques and patterns are known by the impressions left on pottery shards from as early as 1000 A.D. and continuing into the 20th century. Some bags were done with figures woven in and some were "plainer". Used for storage of all kinds and for washing and hulling corn the bags are tough and versatile coming in a range of sizes from 3 or 4 inches up to several feet. This bag was woven from bottom to top as the warps hang from a stick, essentially woven "upside down" as were all the bags I have seen in collections. SOLD

Twined Bag - $300.00
A simple twined bag of a type used for storage and for hulling corn. 11"W by 9.5"H with a braided opening edge. The edges on these bags were usually very substantial and often braided like this one or had the warp strands gathered in bunches and wrapped. Sometimes dyed strands were included to create stripes and often patterns or "texture" were created by manipulating the warps strands as in this bag.

"Panel Bag" - $1300.00
From an original in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, this bag is made using hemp cordage and wool yarn. Woven with a method called twining. Bag is Approx 17"W by 14"H. Used for storage and as medicine bags these "panel" bags begin to show up in collections around the end of the 1800's and disappear around 1930. The techniques and various warp arrangements show up in a very few remnants of fabric and as impressions on pottery sherds from the Mississipian culture (600AD to 1600AD). Other style bags using the same techniques but less use of figures for decoration begin to show up as collected in the second half of the 1700's. Like on fingerwoven bags, the designs are almost always different on each side of the bag.

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A twined panel bag from the Great Lakes. This bag is from the Chandler-Porht collection at the Detroit Institute of Art. Thunderbirds and underwater panthers are commonly seen on these bags along with stylized symbols representing them and other spirit beings. SOLD

Twined Bag - $600.00
This bag is from an Ottawa bag that is in the Detroit Institute of Art collection. It has been shown in several publications including David Penney's "Great Lakes Indian Art". This bag is woven using ehmp and wool yarn. It is somewhat unusual and that it as some painted elements also. Bag is 12" wide by 10.5" deep.

Garters - $275.00
Woven using fine yarns with beads woven in like was done on original items. 13" x 2" with 12" fringe for tyeing. When tied tight they pull down to about 1 1/2 inchs, still wide enough to not bother circulation.

Strap - $550.00
Horn or bag strap . Again dyed with madder root but with a different heat giving it a rich brown color. The pattern is adapted from a sash at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.