How do you make dreamcatcher?

Answer 1

Here is what you will need.

6 inch metal or wooden ring (willow is traditional)

9 feet of thin seude or colored wool

waxed nylon string ( dental floss works well)

12-16 feather in any colors you want

1 large feather to allow good spirits to escape web and enter room

Beads and shells

Glue (clothes pins to hold glued parts until dry)

glue one end of the suede or wool to the ring and affix the clothes pin to hold it in place until it dries. When it's dry take the pin off and wrap the suede or wool around the ring tightly until you reach the point where you started. Cut off any remaining material then glue it in place. Again place the pin over that to hold it until it dries.

Tie one end of the waxed nylon sting or dental floss to the ring, make 8-9 half hitch knots around the ring spacing them about 1 1/2 - 2 inches apart, keeping the thread pulled snug between the knots.

Begin the next row of the web in the middle of the string that you just weaved. You should begin to see a spider web forming. As your weaving you can add small buttons or beads to the string that will hang inside the spider web after it's done.

Cut 3 or 5 7" pieces of the suede or wool and tie two of them on either side of your ring a bit more than half way up, using a double knot, repeat this about equal distance to the bottom. Then tie the remaining one to the bottom in the very center.

Add beads and feathers using glue to secure.

Use the main large feather by hanging it from top left on an angle toward the bottom right with the tip of the feather over the ring and secure that with glue.

There you have a home made Dreamcatcher