The Fabulous Forager

Decorations weren’t–and still aren’t–just for fashion: they carried cultural and personal meanings. I probably should have included this in my last post about Native American dresses, but here’s a fascinating article (from NativeTech, natch) about beads. Native Americans in my bioregion made them out of bone, ceramic, metal, shell, and stone. Beads, of course, are far from the only method of decorating clothing: there’s also quill embroidery.In other news, I <3 NativeTech.