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Tools That are Used for Making for Preparing the Skeletons $79.99 Tools That are Used for Making for Preparing the Skeletons - Premium Photographic Print

An Antique Kazak Rug $49.99 An Antique Kazak Rug - Giclee Print

An Antique Karatchopf Kazak Rug $49.99 An Antique Karatchopf Kazak Rug - Giclee Print

Charts, Books, and Various Tools Used in Map Making $39.99 Todd Gipstein Charts, Books, and Various Tools Used in Map Making - Photographic Print

Making Memories Tools Bone Folder $4.99 Making Memories Tools are just what ever crafter needs. Make yourself a special craft tool box. Have everything on hand so that when you start crafting you are prepared. Bone Folder- This 4" long bone folder makes crisp creases in anything you wish to fold. Equipped with both a pointed end and a rounded end, it also makes an excellent burnishing tool. Almond color.

Making Memories Details Tools Hammer $4.99 Making Memories Details Tools are just what ever crafter needs. Make yourself a special craft tool box. Have everything on hand so that when you start crafting you are prepared. Hammer- Ideal for travel or easy storage. This small hammer, 6", is made especially for scrapbookers. The long handle gives plenty of leverage for one-swing use.

Making Memories Tools Precision Scissors $4.09 Making Memories Tools are just what every crafter needs. Make yourself a special craft tool box. Have everything on hand so that when you start crafting you are prepared. Precision Scissors- Package contains 1 piece. Blade's cutting length approximately 1 1/2". Total length of scissors including handles is approximately 4 3/4". Great for small and intricate cutting.

Making Memories Details Tools Tweezers $5.49 Making Memories Details Tools are just what every crafter needs. Make yourself a special craft tool box. Have everything on hand so that when you start crafting you are prepared. Tweezers- Fashioned with reverse-action handles, these tweezers do the holding for you. Use with stickers, eyelets and all other exacting tasks for great results every time.

An Unusual Antique Chondzorek Kazak Rug $49.99 An Unusual Antique Chondzorek Kazak Rug - Giclee Print

Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries $63.64 This is a comprehensive study of needlework tools from the 17th century to the Edwardian era. The format of the book groups the tools into periods and relates them to the style of embroidery fashionable at that time. The heavy silver needlework tools of the 17th century are related to the raised and padded embroidery of that era now known as stumpwork. The more delicate embroidery tools of the Georgian era are grouped together with fine embroideries. Palais Royal sewing boxes and their superb mother-of-pearl contents are illustrated, as are the glorious carved ivory needlework tools that originated from the Dieppe region of France. The Victorian lady chose her sewing box, work table or sewing set from the tremendous range available of which illustrated examples include tortoiseshell, papier mache, Tunbridge ware and Mauchline ware. The Edwardian era was the era of sterling silver and needlework tools of sterling silver were produced in enormous varieties. Many were English in origin but American silversmiths produced a vast variety of distinctive designs.

Making Memories Details Tools Edge Scraper $3.39 Making Memories Details Tools are just what ever crafter needs. Make yourself a special craft tool box. Have everything on hand so that when you start crafting you are prepared. Edge Scraper- is a great way to create distressed paper. Simply insert the edge of the paper into "V" groove making contact with the blade. Run Scraper along entire length of piece as many times as needed to achieve your desired effect.

Making Memories Details Tools Ribbon Slot Punch $5.99 Making Memories Details Tools are just what every crafter needs. Make yourself a special craft tool box. Have everything on hand so that when you start crafting you are prepared. Ribbon Slot Punch- Designed for use with Making Memories Instant Setter . Create perfectly proportioned openings for weaving paper and ribbon, or use the crescent-shaped slot to make notches for corners, tuck in flaps and more.

Momeni AG092X3 Antique Green Agra Rug $104.2 Momeni Agra Small Rug AG092X3 Antique Green

Momeni AG093.9X5.9 Antique Green Agra Rug $381.69 Momeni Agra Small Rug AG093.9X5.9 Antique Green

Momeni AG095X8 Antique Green Agra Rug $693.65 Momeni Agra Medium Rug AG095X8 Antique Green

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Use A Wooden Dough Bowl For Beautiful Southwest Home Decor

The wooden dough bowl has always had a part in the lives of the Tarahumara Indian people. In the northern part of Mexico, high in the mountain regions, the Tarahumara people have rugged lifestyles and live in humble dwellings. They support themselves and buy needed items by selling their handcrafts.

I have always appreciated the beautiful baskets, weavings, jewelry and other hand-made items produced by this Tribe. It is fascinating that although the women are primarily in charge of making the handcrafts, the Tarahumara men like working with wood and make exquisite pieces of art using primitive style, simple tools.

Along with wooden dough bowls, they also make wooden spoons, figurines and traditional game balls used in traditional foot races. These wooden items have a simple, unpolished beauty, heightened by the natural characteristics of the wood.

You will also find it interesting how the traditional dough bowls are created. The making of the wooden bowl is started by hand carving a piece of pine wood taken from a fallen tree trunk. Native American log bowls are made by cutting the trunk in half and then roughly chopping it with an axe.

The wood is then chiseled into a bowl like shape with a machete or large knife, giving it that one of a kind, rugged and primitive design. This traditional style is the same way that antique dough bowls have been made throughout the Sierra Madre for generations.

As you learn about these fascinating Indigenous people, you will find that the wood dough bowl is a very useful item in the Tarahumara home. It is used in the process of hand-grinding corn and wheat to make hand-made tortillas, an important part of the Tarahumara diet. They then start by breaking the kernels between a smooth stone and a tapered bowl-like stone called a metate.

The dough bowl is then placed at one end of the metate to catch the corn or wheat flour as it is ground by hand. Water is then added to the flour in the bowl and hand-made tortillas are made from the mix. Although still used by the Tarahumara Tribe for kneading dough and cooking purposes, today dough bowls are made available to buyers for Native American style decorating accessories and as Indian art for collection.

You will find a way to use dough bowls for a number of things. They are great as collectibles, fruit bowls, and when combined with rustic decorating items. They are also great when used for art projects when a blank canvas is needed for western style paintings and other Native American style artwork.

Dough bowls, painted with southwestern, Native American and western designs and scenes, are very popular and are an exciting way to add western style in your home. A painted dough bowl creates a beautiful point of interest for any rustic style room, cabin, lodge or ranch style home by adding the rich warm colors characteristic of southwest artwork.

You can buy wood dough bowls online and in many stores that sell southwest and Native American style home decorating accessories. It is easy to give genuine Native style to your home, or to give your room an authentic rustic look by simply hanging a southwestern, painted dough bowl on the wall.

If you like the unique culture and American Indian way of life, you will enjoy having a piece of their beautiful artwork as part of your interior design. To bring Indian style design to your home and bring about a look that is truly unique, use a genuine native style wooden dough bowl to enhance great character in your home decor.

About the Author

Craig Chambers is the director of Mission Del Rey and offers free information online about choosing a wooden dough bowl for rustic decor. For more information visit http://www.missiondelrey.com

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