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If you are looking for hard to find colors and sizes, check out our new Vintage Italian Seed Beads. We offer over 100 new colors and sizes, plus a fresh selection of Pony Beads at your disposal. We offer parfleche painting cookies are now ready for painting rawhide bags and envelopes. These parfleche painting cookies are made the Old Way. These rawhide painting cookies have not been readily available for nearly a century or more!

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We have just added a 7th and 8th sample card to our original set of four sample cards. The fifth sample card contains vintage Italian micro seed beads. These beads are used for doll making, peyote fan making, fan making and other projects where very small Italian seed beads are required. These beads are now being used by the very best Native American Indian doll makers on the planet. Our blues are rare shades in much demand as well as th eyellows and some of the other colors.

One of our favorite art and craft forms is American Indian Parfleche. This is truly a beautiful form of Indian Craft. Many of the old American Indian parfleche bags or parfleche cases and other painted American Indian rawhide pieces in museum and private collections were painted with cookies. We have made every effort to revive the cookies as they were found on the Plains and the Plateau before 1900.
We offer also Ermine/Weasels skins/hides.

We are very proud to offer to you best in the market reproduction old save list cloth. Our cloth is 100% wool made in England to our strict specifications. We produced a variety of grades and styles to match our samples of old Save List Stroud cloth that we had. We dye our cloth by hand here in United States using the same technique to produce the desired Save list results. . We also offer styles of cloth dyed with natural indigo dye.

With over two decades of craft experience, we are pleased to bring to you the best materials for making Native American crafts. They are also great for restoration and reproduction work. Check our cotton threads, beading needles, bees wax, brass bells, etc.

We hand tan our own hides, using traditional brain tanning methods for deer, antelope and elk hides, smoked or white. The hides are soft and pliable and a needle will easily go through the brain tanned hide. They are great for making moccasins, leggings, shirts, pipe bags, etc.. We also make rawhide and no chemicals are used in any of the tanning process.

We will try to bring you a few titles that will be useful to those who either are interested in American Indian beadwork, those who actually make things with seed beads (Italian seed beads) , or those who do research into the broad area of American Indian Studies (Native American Studies). Some of the titles that will be added to this category are out of print meaning they are no longer available from the publisher, some are new books of interest that we deem appropriate for the site.

We have a limited supply of craft grade ermine a few times a year and when we have those they will be listed here. These were an instant sellout at the 2007 Material Culture of the Plains, Prairie, and Plateau Conference held at Lewiston, Idaho. We were able to obtain more. These are perfect for tube drops and ermine bonnets.

We presented an some images of a very colorful pair of moccasins, shirts, horse collar and tipi and pipe bags from the Plateau. On the Plateau most of the collected moccasins are of the side seam type. In this photo we are referring to the center pair, not the two singles at each side.