Types Of Dream Catcher
The dream catcher is a handmade craft originated from the Native American culture. It is a woven net or web decorated with certain materials such as shells, leather, beads, gemstones, feathers, and so on. These materials are always found in nature. Nowadays, there are various types of dream catchers. And they become more and more colorful and beautiful. If you want to get rid of nightmares or simply freshen your room, try yourself make such charm and hang in bedrooms, above the beds, or on the doors. Dream catchers are so easy to make and absolutely pretty, creative, and fascinating.
A dream catcher is a type of mobile made by Native Americans of the Great Plains. It is a beautiful object and is associated with an interesting legend. Dream catchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of Native Americans. The traditional dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole inRead more ›. 'Dream catchers (webbed and beaded circles hung with feathers from the base of the circle) have long been a part of Native American religion, lore, and art. They have caught on within the New Age movement into popular culture. The purpose of a dream catcher is to supposedly catch dreams—that is, to trap bad. The dreamcatcher is a Native American Indian craft. The traditional dreamcatcher was made to protect an individual from bad dreams. The premise of the dreamcatcher is to catch the bad dreams in the center hole of the web while allowing the good dreams to pass through. The name 'dream catcher' was published in mainstream, non-Native media in the 1970s and became widely known as a 'Native crafts item' by the 1980s, by the early 1990s 'one of the most popular and marketable' ones.
In this post we’ve rounded up some beautiful dream catcher ideas and tutorials in today’s list to take you good dreams. There is so much fun making these easy projects. Once you start to follow these ideas or tutorials and create your own dream catchers, it may surprise you what you can accomplish on a low budget.
DIY Watercolor Dreamcatcher
via plaidonline
DIY Heart Dreamcatcher
via mollymoocrafts
DIY Lace Dream Catcher
via alldaychic
T-Shirt Dreamcatchers
via smallforbig
DIY Traditional Dream Catcher
Tutorial via artsandclassy
Native American Dream Catcher
Tutorial via nativetech
Beaded Web
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DIY White and Pink Dream Catcher
The dream catcher will protect you from bad dreams and make good dreams memorable. Get more inspiration from facebook
White Doily and Lace Dream Catcher
It was believed the dream catcher can filter out all bad dreams and spirits, let only the good dreams and positive thoughts enter our mind. Tutorial via hellomay
DIY Large Black and Blue Dream Catcher
The dream catcher is such a fun art design to add your own sense of creativity. Tutorial via xsaraphanelia
DIY Dream Catchers for Wedding Decoration
Create your dream wedding with such a beautiful dreamcatcher background for the wedding ceremony. See more pictures from hellomay
Cool Dream catcher Made from an Old CD
What a creative way to make a dream catcher for him! Via homesthetics
Pretty Homemade Dream Catcher
I love the color. Looks so beautiful and warm. Tutorial via februaryskydesigns
Yin Yang Black and White Dream Catcher
A Dream catcher is a circle of life. You are the One you have been waiting for. You are the One you’ve been searching for. Via tumblr
Doily and Feather Dream Catcher
If you don’t have time to wave a dream catcher, you can use a doily instead. Via savingmorethanme
DIY Dream Catcher Lamp
This colorful dream catcher style lamp would be great for the kids room. Tutorial via yesidim
Bohemian Bedroom Decorated with Dream Catcher
Simple and stylish bedroom with a DIY dream catcher hanging upon the headboard. Via primitiveandproper. Tutorial via primitiveandproper.
DIY Beautiful Peacock Dream Catcher
Speak your intentions into dreamcatchers and they will be done. Tutorial via savingmorethanme
Rainbow with Beads Dream Catcher Mobile
Via difundir
Beautiful Blush Pink Dream Catcher
So beautiful and romantic. Via etsy.
DIY Blue Feather and Bead Dream Catcher
Can you imagine the dream catchers are so simple and fun to make? Tutorial via homesthetics
Peach and Black Dream Catcher
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DIY Cute Dream Catcher
Lovely! Will make perfect decor in any room. Tutorial via madein-bk
Amazing Dream Catcher Lamp
Ward away dark spirits and dreams with this traditional Native American craft. See more from homesthetics
DIY Butterfly Dream Catcher Tutorial
Tutorial via homesthetics.
Colorful DIY Dream Catcher
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DIY Vintage Dream Catcher
Made with your own hands, it will surely bring more happy dreams. Video tutorial via g45papers
Beautiful Butterfly Dream Catcher
A dreamcatcher has no power in itself, but it has the power to make you believe. And believe itself is power! Via cuteelvinaaliciouzzz
Circle of Life Dream Catcher
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Seashell and Feather Decorated Dream Catcher
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In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher or dream catcher (Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider')[1] is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. The dreamcatcher may also include sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. Traditionally they are often hung over a cradle as protection.[2] It originates in Anishinaabe culture as the 'spider web charm' (Anishinaabe: asubakacin 'net-like', White Earth Band; bwaajige ngwaagan 'dream snare', Curve Lake Band[3]), a hoop with woven string or sinew meant to replicate a spider's web, used as a protective charm for infants.[2]
Dreamcatchers were adopted in the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and gained popularity as a widely marketed 'Native crafts items' in the 1980s. [4]
Ojibwe origin[edit]
Ethnographer Frances Densmore in 1929 recorded an Ojibwe legend according to which the 'spiderwebs' protective charms originate with Spider Woman, known as Asibikaashi; who takes care of the children and the people on the land. As the Ojibwe Nation spread to the corners of North America it became difficult for Asibikaashi to reach all the children.[2] So the mothers and grandmothers weave webs for the children, using willow hoops and sinew, or cordage made from plants. The purpose of these charms is apotropaic and not explicitly connected with dreams:
Even infants were provided with protective charms. Examples of these are the 'spiderwebs' hung on the hoop of a cradle board. In old times this netting was made of nettle fiber. Two spider webs were usually hung on the hoop, and it was said that they 'caught any harm that might be in the air as a spider's web catches and holds whatever comes in contact with it.'[2]
Basil Johnston, an elder from Neyaashiinigmiing, in his Ojibway Heritage (1976) gives the story of Spider (Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh, 'little net maker') as a trickster figure catching Snake in his web.[5][clarification needed]
Modern uses[edit]
While Dreamcatchers continue to be used in a traditional manner in their communities and cultures of origin, a derivative form of 'dreamcatchers' were also adopted into the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s as a symbol of unity among the various Native American cultures, or a general symbol of identification with Native American or First Nations cultures.[4]
The name 'dream catcher' was published in mainstream, non-Native media in the 1970s[6] and became widely known as a 'Native crafts item' by the 1980s,[7]by the early 1990s 'one of the most popular and marketable' ones.[8]
In the course of becoming popular outside the Ojibwe Nation during the Pan-Native movement in the '60s, various types of 'dreamcatchers', many of which bear little resemblance to traditional styles, and that incorporate materials that would not be traditionally used, are now made, exhibited, and sold by New age groups and individuals. Some Native Americans have come to see these 'dreamcatchers' as over-commercialized, like 'sort of the Indian equivalent of a tacky plastic Jesus hanging in your truck,' while others find it a loving tradition or symbol of native unity. [4]
A mounted and framed dreamcatcher is being used as a shared symbol of hope and healing by the Little Thunderbirds Drum and Dance Troupe from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. In recognition of the shared trauma and loss experienced, both at their school during the Red Lake shootings, and by other students who have survived similar school shootings, they have traveled to other schools to meet with students, share songs and stories, and gift them with the dreamcatcher. The dreamcatcher has now been passed from Red Lake to students at Columbine CO, to Sandy Hook CT, to Marysville WA, to Townville SC, to Parkland FL.[9][10][11]
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References[edit]
- ^'Free English-Ojibwe dictionary and translator - FREELANG'. www.freelang.net.
- ^ abcdDensmore, Frances (1929, 1979) Chippewa Customs. Minn. Hist. Soc. Press; pg. 113.
- ^Jim Great Elk Waters, View from the Medicine Lodge (2002), p. 111.
- ^ abc'During the pan-Indian movement in the 60's and 70's, Ojibway dreamcatchers started to get popular in other Native American tribes, even those in disparate places like the Cherokee, Lakota, and Navajo.' 'Native American Dream catchers', Native-Languages
- ^John Borrows, 'Foreword' to Françoise Dussart, Sylvie Poirier, Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in australia and Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- ^'a hoop laced to resemble a cobweb is one of Andrea Petersen's prize possessions. It is a 'dream catcher'—hung over a Chippewa Indian infant's cradle to keep bad dreams from passing through. 'I hope I can help my students become dream catchers,' she says of the 16 children in her class. In a two-room log cabin elementary school on a Chippewa reservation in Grand Portage' The Ladies' Home Journal 94 (1977), p. 14.
- ^'Audrey Speich will be showing Indian Beading, Birch Bark Work, and Quill Work. She will also demonstrate the making of Dream Catchers and Medicine Bags.' The Society Newsletter (1985), p. 31.
- ^Terry Lusty (2001). 'Where did the Ojibwe dream catcher come from? Windspeaker - AMMSA'. www.ammsa.com. Sweetgrass; volume 8, issue 4: The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society. p. 19.CS1 maint: location (link)
- ^Marysville School District receives dreamcatcher given to Columbine survivors By Brandi N. Montreuil, Tulalip News. Posted on November 7, 2014
- ^'Showing Newtown they're not alone - CNN Video' – via edition.cnn.com.
- ^Dreamcatcher for school shooting survivors (paywall)
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