{"id":72223,"date":"2021-06-30T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sharing-techniques-with-the-next-generation\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T18:58:26","slug":"sharing-techniques-with-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sharing-techniques-with-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing techniques with the next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Jill Kaasteen Meserve’s name.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

It takes a steady hand and plenty of know-how to successfully complete a beading project inspired by Ravenstail robes and baskets.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

On Saturday, about 15 children learned more about the process and started work on a tattoo-design beading project at the Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Instructors Jill Kaasteen Meserve and Davina Cole Drones led the class and encouraged students along the way with step-by-step instructions and hands-on support.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“We are in a cool time right now that we can expand what beadwork is and what is a piece of indigenous art,” Kaasteen Meserve said as she showed her students examples of traditional and non-traditional pieces.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Drones said that she had started beading when she was young, and her interest has grown over the years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Naisha Bathija, 9, and her mother Neelam work on a Ravenstail pattern beading project at the Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum on June 26, 2021. (Dana Zigmund\/Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

“I really love this medium,” she told the class.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Students learned flat-stitch beading, which Drones explained must adhere to felt, leather or denim.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Students sketched a formline style design on felt with a marker before threading needles and starting to bead.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Kaasteen Meserve said this was the second time she had conducted a beading workshop at the museum.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“It’s so fun that we get to pass this on to the next generation,” Kaasteen Meserve said. “They approach things in a new way and can do a lot more than we expect.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

• Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4890.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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