the best in vintage Italian seed beads!

Materials: Ermine/Weasels, Parfleche Cookies for Painting Rawhide/Parfleche.

Here at BeadMatch we are constantly looking for quality products that will help with the creative processes in our clients work. We have a limited supply of craft grade ermine a few times a year and when we have those they will be listed here. At our pre grand opening event in Lewiston, Idaho at the yearly Material Culture of the Plains, Prairie, and Plateau Indian Conference we sold out our ermine supply almost immediately. http://www.mcppp.org/ I have a close Santee Soiux friend who calls them "ermits" instead of ermine. It has a nice ring to it. Everyone I mention this to begins calling them ermits, maybe you will start calling them that too! We are also working on an exclusive pre waxed thread that is very strong and is a very good emulation of the thread common to American Indian beadwork before and shortly after 1900.

Ermine / Weasels

Craft Grade Ermine / Weasels Sizing and Pricing

with tails: with out tails: (great for "wormy" ermine bonnets and shirt fringe)

10" to 12" $6.00                                12" to 13" $5
12" to 13" $6.50                                13" to 14" $6
13" to 14" $7.50                                14" to 15" $6.50
14" to 15" $8.00                                15" to 16" $7
15" to 16" $8.50                                16" to 17" $8
16" to 17" $9.00
17" to 18" $9.50

Huge Premium Garment Grade Ermine / Weasels With Tails "the very best!"
17" to 18" $19
16" to 17" $18

Old Recipe Parfleche Painting Cookies, Not Yet Available

Parfleche Painting Cookies in Old Natural Mineral Pigments and Trade Pigment Colors

Pigment cookies made the old way with natural, trade pigments, and natural hide glue. These cookies have high concentrations of pigments and have taken us years to develop and perfect. We prefer to use them on a freshly fleshed hide that is strung in a frame and is still wet/damp. The cookies are 1 1/2 inch to 2 inches in diameter and one cookie will paint a phenomenal amount of parfleche. One of the top 5 restoration/artists in the U.S. complimented us on parfleche that we had completed with the cookies and said the parfleche were the closest thing to an old painted piece they had seen.

Not yet available for the market but perfected, in the oven cookin', and coming soon for your parfleche painting activities.

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