Crafts & How To Books

Put together by the staff of the Sioux Trading Post, the kit will help you get started with basic tools and beads. As you get better you'll evolve into using smaller beads and your imagination will help to create keepsake pieces. A $90.00 value if...

New 2nd Edition now in color! With over 200 illustrations and 60 photographs in full color, and 10 more in black and white, this is a fine addition to the field of arts and crafts and a must for the traditionally oriented craftsman. Originally...

This special edition of 'Pine Needle Basketry : A Complete Book of Instructions for Making Pine Needle Baskets' was written by Linna Loehr Millikin, and first published in 1920, making it just shy of a century old. The book features chapters on...

The Plains Indian Warbonnet has become the symbol most identified by the public with All Native Americans, regardless of their particular tribe or culture.This book addresses this misconception and other fascinating myths and realities pertaining to the...

The processing of hides and skins is one of the oldest known crafts and cultural techniques.  Today, tanning is done primarily with chemicals, but traditional tanning was done with fat, smoke, and plant extracts to make the hides durable and soft...

It's back! Good feather work skills are a must for producing top quality craftwork, and this comprehensive new book covers every facet in great detail. Beginning with a gallery of full-color photos of hundreds of real feathers, the author takes you...

The book features step-by-step descriptions of preparing and painting feathers to produce realistic substitute for "eagle" feathers.  The text is accompanied by a large number of explanatory photographs and all of the materials used are easy to...

These instructions will show you how to make a 60” star, and a finished 90” x 100” Wild Blueberries queen size star quilt top in the colors of your choice. There are charts and color diagrams to help you create rotary cut diamond...

These instructions will show you how to make a 60” star, and a finished 90” x 100” Wild Blueberries queen size star quilt top in the colors of your choice. There are charts and color diagrams to help you create rotary cut diamond...

These instructions will show you how to make a 24 ½” Mitakuye Oyasin baby star quilt top in the colors of your choice. Once the borders are sewn on, it will measure 40” square. There are chars and color diagrams to help you create...

These instructions will show you how to make a 90” x 100” Mitakuye Oyasin quilt top in the colors of your chart. There are charts and color diagrams to help you create diamond strips for the star, and directions on how to measure and cut the...

These instructions will show you how to make a 38” Turtle Island star quilt top in the colors of your choice. Once the border is sewn on, it will measure 40” square. There are charts and large color diagrams to help you create rotary cut...

These instructions will show you how to make a 60” star, and a finished 90” x 100” Turtle Island Queen size star quilt top in the colors of your choice. There are charts and color diagrams to help you create rotary cut diamond strips...

This particular pattern shows information on material requirements, suggested materials, and tools and notions on a ribbon shirt in child sizes.

This particular pattern includes information on the material requirements, suggested materials, and notions and tools on adult sizes of ribbon shirt.  

These instructions will show you how to make a 40" Native American baby size "Dawn" star quilt top.  Charts and color diagrams will help you create rotary-cut diamond strips for the star, and there are directions on how to measure and cut the...

These instructions will show you how to make a 40" Native American baby size "Good Road" star quilt top in colors of your choice.  The charts and color diagrams will help you create rotary-cut diamond strips fo the star and there are directions on...

From sizes 6 - 20This pattern will make a basic Comanche or Lakota/Sioux style dress and information is included to allow easy modification to any of the following styles: Blackfoot, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache or Plateau. Also included is...

Sizes from womens 5 - 10 and mens sizes from 7 - 12The Indians of the Plains and Plateau areas, men, women and children alike, wore this very basic, hardsole type moccasin which was developed out of necessity as protection from the hard and sometimes...

The Jingle Dress came into popularity during the 1920's among the Ojibwa Nation of the Great Lakes area, in both the U.S. and Canada. It's popularity continued until the 1950's when it fell out of use for approximately 30 years, although a few women...

Dress size from 6 - 20The classic apparel of the Plains Indian woman is the buckskin dress and with all its beadwork, fringe and other decorations, it is indeed a beautiful garment. This pattern is a basic, Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho style and includes...

Girl's size 6 - 16 This pattern will make a basic Comanche or Lakota/Sioux style dress and information is included to allow easy modification to any of the following styles: Blackfoot, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache or Plateau. Also included is...

The Jingle Dress came into popularity during the 1920's among the Ojibwa Nation of the Great Lakes area, in both the U.S. and Canada. It's popularity continued until the 1950's when it fell out of use for approximately 30 years, although a few women...

Ladies' outfits require a number of accessories in order to make them authentic and historically accurate. Because Indian dresses were very simple and usually contained no pockets, articles such as purses, knife sheaths, strike-a-light bags, awl cases,...