Third annual Beading Night teaches students how to create traditional Native American designs
The third annual Beading Night was held Nov. 17 in the University Center Lake Room.
The event, free to the public, was for Native American Heritage Month.
About 15 students attended the event, which featured crafting stations and directions.
“I have never worked at this event before, it is my first year,” Hannahville senior Olivia Manitowabi said. “We have done an event like this with our Registered Student Organization, but we have never one with the public.”
There were multiple colored beads on the tables, each with three example pictures of different design patterns options.
Everyone was instructed to draw any design they would like on the small fabric they were given.
“I like everything that has to do with Native American History and thought this sounds cool,” senior Kaileigh Brammer said.
The students who were in charge of the event displayed examples of what they had beaded before. They had earrings, headbands and key chains that they had passed around as examples.
Strings were then passed around with needles to start the beading. Each table went up to the front of the room to pick the different colors for their designs.
“I heard about this through the Honors Program,” said freshman Veronica Gregory. “I was really happy that we got to make our own design and personalize it.”
Pens were passed out to draw their own design on the fabric.
While everyone was beading, the instructors explained how some people have used porcupine quills to bead instead of needles.
“The best part was how interactive people were with one another,” said Manitowabi.
