Dreamcatcher tinker with natural materials – we show how it works

Make your dreamcatcher to sleep gently

The Dreamcatchers are the oddest thing to associate with the Native Americans. Native American legends tell us that at night, as we sleep, the air above us fills with good and bad dreams. The good dreams know the secret paths through the dreamcatcher web and creep quietly down to our heads while we have no idea about it. The evil dream, however, remains stuck in the dream catcher and disappears immediately after sunrise with the first rays of sunshine.

From natural materials you can make beautiful and very individual dream catcher

We know each other in our culture Dream catcher rather than decoration They are typical props of the esoteric scene, accompanied by incense sticks, aroma candles or the tinkling of wind chimes.

How to make a triangular dreamcatcher is shown in the first video tutorial

They are neither part of the first nor the second group of people, but have always found these mystical nets special and somehow even magical. Still, you have not seen a single dreamcatcher in your life that has addressed you in one way or another.

In today’s article, we offer you the unique opportunity to make your own, very personal dream catcher. And so that he agrees with his original models, we would like you on the Crafting with natural materials to draw attention.

The dream catcher lets only the good dreams through, say many Indian wisdom

You can leather, willow branches and feathers make a dream catcher and weave his own desires and dreams into the net. In the attached tutorials you will learn the basics about crafting and weaving from a round and a triangular dream catcher. You’ll also get a few inspiring impulses for designing on your way. From then on you can trust your imagination and create the most beautiful dreamcatchers exclusively from natural materials and completely free of charge.

Have fun and a good luck!

Pictures and ideas Source: www.puckermob.com

And now to practice:

You can find the materials while walking in the woods and gather your first triangular dream catcher

For a round dream catcher, willow branches are good, because they are very flexible and you can work wonderfully

Tire from pasture You can either bend it yourself or just order it from a gardener

You can take any feathers and possibly help with color as you like

About the Meaning of colors you can inquire in the net or in the library

Wrap the tire you have chosen for your project with leather, twine or jute and use a suitable adhesive

Once you have spread the fabric around the whole tire, cut off the rest and glue the end to the tire

Make a loop from the fabric and tie it tight – it will help you to hang it up

Now comes the difficult part, which is about weaving the net

Tie a knot on the tire with any thread, with one hand guide the thread and the tire and roll over

With this technique you weave once again around the tire

When you reach the end of the first circle, beat the thread over the first “stitch” and pull slightly in the opposite direction

And because images are more meaningful than any language, look at the same thing in more detail in the following video tutorial!

Still a relatively simple technique, with which you come to the similar result

After the most important part of web weaving is done, you can incorporate any feathers, gems, or whatever comes to your mind and feel the magical spell of the ancient Indians a little closer