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Cherokee Cornhusk Dolls

Cherokee Cornhusk Dolls

$730.00

Available

Doll Making
Brasstown
Week (Sunday-Friday)
Ages
18yr+
Nov
15
Sun
-
Nov
20
Fri
PM
04:00
-
PM
12:00
Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week
Schedule Description: Daily
Sessions: 6
Session Hours: 6.00
Program Area: Dolls, Unique Offerings
Instructor: Laura Walkingstick
Studio/Location: Weaving Studio
Student Materials: Please bring the following: Instructor provides everything to make a doll. Items to personalize your own doll (optional), such as: -Specific fabrics you want to use - bring a 12x12” square fabric -Jewelry you want to repurpose -Sticks, feathers, acorns, moss, or props for your doll. Many students went gathering outside to find natural outdoor materials -Beads -Some students in the past have made brooms, Cornhusk fish, tomahawk, firewood bundles for a few ideas. Please call or email instructor for details or explanations. Think of a few ideas and feel free to share your ideas before class and we can try to make it work. ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL MATERIALS FEE: $40
School Fee & Materials: Basic fabric scraps are available Access to the Folk School’s quilting library. The studio has all the required equipment available for your use, including a sewing toolkit and machines. If you would like to bring your own supplies, please bring and label with your name: - Basic sewing and quilting supplies: fabric scissors, seam ripper, straight pins, safety pins, etc. - Rotary cutter with sharp blade and a cutting mat for your workstation, if you can pack & transport it so that it remains flat. (The school has mats for shared use, along with a Martelli cutting table.) - Water- or heat-soluble fabric marker or tailor’s chalk - Acrylic ruler, 6”-8” x 12”-24” or what instructor designates. - Personal sewing machine in good working order, plus bobbins, extra needles, feet, attachments, and owner’s manual (if you have it). The school has machines*, but you would be much more comfortable using your own, if you can transport it.
Instructor Materials: Cornhusk Doll materials used: - Cornhusk - Raffia natural color - Black wool acrylic yarn - Wool cloth - Calico fabrics or solid fabrics - Glue guns and glue sticks - Small tubs to soak Cornhusks. - Scissors - Needles and thread - 2-3 colors of yarn - Size 11 glass seed beads - Small colored ribbons - Leather scraps and artificial sinew - Materials will be provided to make miniature earrings - Rubber bands for doll hair - Doll stand
Equipment Needs: Sewing toolkits Machines as needed
Skill Level: All levels
Total Materials Fees: $50
Weaving Studio
1 FOLK SCHOOL RD
BRASSTOWN, NC 28902-8008

Description

Create a Cherokee cornhusk doll with a unique touch. Explore the history of doll making, from why the cornhusk doll has no face to histories from around the world. Materials kit will be provided, but students are encouraged to bring their favorite fabric, small charms, buttons, beads, yarn, or other materials that will personalize their doll. Expect to incorporate hand sewing and a very little bit of sewing machine.

Create a Cherokee cornhusk doll with a unique touch. Explore the history of doll making, from why the cornhusk doll has no face to histories from around the world. Materials kit will be provided, but students are encouraged to bring their favorite fabric, small charms, buttons, beads, yarn, or other materials that will personalize their doll. Expect to incorporate hand sewing and a very little bit of sewing machine.

$50

Laura Walkingstick is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. She comes from a family of artisans on both sides of her parents. She received her AFA in 2005 in Studio Arts with a concentration in metalsmithing, and a BFA in 2014 in Studio Arts with a concentration in ceramics at the Institute of American Indian Arts College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She graduated with her MA in Art Therapy & Counseling 2018 at the Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has three of her pieces in permanent museum collections.

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