What fun!
Re: Bead IT! -- redmountain Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Joyce Post Reply
07/07/2018, 18:52:10

And an easy souvenir to carry home in your luggage. This lovely beaded bowl is traditional Huichol Indian (Mexico) work. It's done one bead at a time, set into a mix of pine pitch and bee's wax. They used some kind of gourd for the base. This is one of the many kinds of amazing craft they do; some years ago a CAR was shown all over the web that two families covered with seed beads using this technique!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-the-vochol-163702332/

RMhuicholbowl.jpg (134.5 KB)  


Modified by Joyce at Sat, Jul 07, 2018, 19:00:55

© Copyright 2018
All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users
Followups