Craft & How to Books

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,...

Sizes: infants - all, toddler - 5,7,9,10 and childs - 4,5,6The Indians of the Plains and Plateau areas, men, women and children alike, wore this very basic, hard sole type moccasin which was developed out of necessity as protection from the hard and...

These instructions will show you how to make a 90" x 100" Native American queen size Dawn Star quilt top. You can add your own borders to make this quilt top however large you want.Charts and color diagrams will help you create rotary-cut diamond strips...

Since it was first published in 1969, George White's book on making American Indian moccasins has been the most comprehensive and diverse work on the subject and in this expanded edition, it remains so today.Detailed instructions on measuring, pattern...

Though there are other how-to books on basic beadwork, this work by Scott Sutton is in a class by itself.Scott covers not only the rudiments but reveals tricks he's learned from his extensive experience as a bead worker. He shares techniques not found...

Clark David Wissler (1870-1947) was one of America's foremost anthropologists of the early 1900's. Starting as an assistant at the American Museum of History in 1902, he worked under his famed mentor, Franz Boas, whose position he subsequently assumed...

This book is filled with photographs showing pow wows and dance costumes over the past 100 years, accompanied by written histories and first-hand accounts. North American tribes from coast to coast are celebrating their continuing native heritage with...

These instructions will show you how to make a 90" x 100" Native American queen size good Road star quilt top in the colors of your choice. You can add your won borders to make this quilt top however large you want.Charts and color diagrams will help you...

One of the best examples of Plains Indian craftsmanship is the beaded knife sheath, worn by men and women for both everyday and ceremonial use. Plains Indian Knife Sheaths is a comprehensive, well illustrated resource for anyone wishing to recreates or...

This step by step instructional workbook helps to clear up the mysteries surrounding the making of a star quilt. The book starts off with the language of the star quilt, goes onto the materials needed and even instructions on tools used. If you have ever...

Includes black & white, full color photographs, plus how to instructions This how to guide presents photographs of Fancy Dancers and provides basic instructions for creating your own regalia. Just keep in mind that this book is meant to help you...

This how to guide presents photographs and the history of Northern Traditional Dancers and provides basic instructions for creating your own regalia. Presented in a narrative and photos, we explore the contemporary Northern Traditional Outfit and...

It's history, construction and use. This book will show how to make, use and enjoy the best of all movable shelters, the Indian tipi or teepee.The American Indian was a strictly practical man. But he was also a born artist. As a result, his inventions...