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For those of you that aren't familiar with quillwork here is a brief discription. Quillwork was a pre-columbian form of decoration used by many of the Native American tribes prior to the arrival or the Europeans. When the early explorers came over they brought with them glass beads and these were quickly adopted by the women that were in charge of decorating clothing, bags and utensils. The process of using porcipine quills for decorating is a very time consuming process, first the quills must be collected then cleaned, sorted by size, dyed and finally attached to leather by sewing or wrapped around strips of rawhide. Due to all the steps involved with using quills for decoration and the ease of using glass beads they quickly replaced the use of quills almost completely however during the reservation period many of the older women passed along the art of quillwork to many of the young women and there was a resurgence in the art of quillwork.

Here on this page and the following pages you'll see a few samples of my quillwork. The medicine wheel used in my logo is one sample of wrapping on rawhide and the image below is from a pair of armbands that I did by wrapping on rawhide.