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Story behind the Dreamcatcher

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What is a Dreamcatcher? I thought dreamcatcher is an object that will catch our bad dreams or nightmares like that, but actually it is not related to our dreams. Instead in olden days they used it to catch harm coming from insects or evil eye kind of thing that might be in air these catcher will holds whatever comes. DREAMCATCHER is a handmade willow hoop, in which a net or web is woven to it and it also includes sacred items such as feathers and beads. Where it was originated? It originated in ANISHINAABE (refers to "the good humans") are group of  culturally related indigenous people resident in North America. They speak in a language called ANISHINAABEMOWIN  or ANISHINAABE LANGUAGES.  In this OJIBWE tradition is also included which was originating long ago in the Great Lakes region. In their culture Dreamcatcher is a "Spider web charm", in their language  ASUBAKACIN means net like, white earth band, BWAAJIGE NGWAAGAN  means dream snare and ASABIKESHIINH me...

Simple Dreamcatcher

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 If you like dreamcatcher, You can try this dreamcatcher idea with following simple steps  1. All you need is a paper and pencil ready and you need to start it with circle. If u have circle ruler then its awesome, if you don't have then you can try with any other circular objects around you. Here I started with a round shaped bowl to form one circle and the other I drew with hand and  then I started drawing flowers from one corner. After this go with the strings and the feathers with the beads. First I did this with pencil once completed I went with micron to avoid mistakes. (so to avoid mistakes give a trial with pencil and then go for pen or sketch whichever you like). 2. Once I completed the outline I started the next step from flowers, here I used Blue, Magenta, Green, Orange, Purple and Brown. I just gave colored lines to the flowers, you can also fill it completely with colors or just you can do it with Micron based on how you like. I like seeing colors in those Mic...