Granted this is 7 years ago, im hoping someone sees my comment and can help me with this. So my sister and I have been begging our Mom to help us make us a tear dress but our Mom is not very supportive in our Cherokee heritage and said this dress isnt a simple dress to sew and would be out of her area and would take too long to do, basically she said no, she wont do it. She never identified as Cherokee and has always embraced our French Grandfather. After my siblings and I's many years of research on our family tree, we've come to the conclusion that our Mom was just raised like our great grandmother had learned in ways that i think kept her alive in a time much different than today. Guessing is all we can do, our Grandmother has passed but shed seldomly spoke of our Cherokee heritage and if anything it was always shoved away and ignored if we brought it up asking questions...She and our great grandmother were registered and was why we were able to find the history officially. Since that finding, weve always been intrigued and have tried reversing that oppression amongst ourselves and our own children. Anyways thats not my focus here, thats a whole different issue we have. But an issue we feel we can figure out a bit easier is learning how to make this dress. We were raised watching our Mom sew on her sewing machine our whole lifes, but never was allowed to use the machine cus she made all our clothes with it and if we broke it she wouldnt be able to afford to fix it. So lots of experience watching, but no hands on experience. I do hand sewing almost everyday myself, my sister has experience in knitting and crocheting but not much sewing experience either. So my question here is, do you think two sisters with little to no sewing experience but have great determination and stubbornness to do this,lol, do you know of maybe where we could find a pattern, or more detailed tutorial of making this dress? Where do we find a good tutorial, is there one? We'll probably end up recording us doing this project and undoubtedly all our mistakes, but i feel at least we'll be able to provide other women like ourselves a video to try learning to make this traditional Cherokee tear dress.
I know Missouri River brand has a pattern for Cherokee Tear dresses. Crazy crow sells them for about $10 a pattern. Those patterns usually have lots of good cultural info in them as well. Sending good medicine your way on your sewing journey!
Walmart is selling a Cherokee Tear Dress pattern. The sleeves and length are very long. Do you know if this pattern has the sleeve arms done correctly? I'd rather get the sleeves done right. I'm trying to follow the video instructions.
The diamond. There are Herkimer NY quartz crystal diamonds. The tribes traded. Is it possible that this is the origin of the diamond shape? What does the clear quartz stone represent or mean to Native people?
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Granted this is 7 years ago, im hoping someone sees my comment and can help me with this. So my sister and I have been begging our Mom to help us make us a tear dress but our Mom is not very supportive in our Cherokee heritage and said this dress isnt a simple dress to sew and would be out of her area and would take too long to do, basically she said no, she wont do it. She never identified as Cherokee and has always embraced our French Grandfather. After my siblings and I's many years of research on our family tree, we've come to the conclusion that our Mom was just raised like our great grandmother had learned in ways that i think kept her alive in a time much different than today. Guessing is all we can do, our Grandmother has passed but shed seldomly spoke of our Cherokee heritage and if anything it was always shoved away and ignored if we brought it up asking questions...She and our great grandmother were registered and was why we were able to find the history officially. Since that finding, weve always been intrigued and have tried reversing that oppression amongst ourselves and our own children. Anyways thats not my focus here, thats a whole different issue we have. But an issue we feel we can figure out a bit easier is learning how to make this dress. We were raised watching our Mom sew on her sewing machine our whole lifes, but never was allowed to use the machine cus she made all our clothes with it and if we broke it she wouldnt be able to afford to fix it. So lots of experience watching, but no hands on experience. I do hand sewing almost everyday myself, my sister has experience in knitting and crocheting but not much sewing experience either. So my question here is, do you think two sisters with little to no sewing experience but have great determination and stubbornness to do this,lol, do you know of maybe where we could find a pattern, or more detailed tutorial of making this dress? Where do we find a good tutorial, is there one? We'll probably end up recording us doing this project and undoubtedly all our mistakes, but i feel at least we'll be able to provide other women like ourselves a video to try learning to make this traditional Cherokee tear dress.
I know Missouri River brand has a pattern for Cherokee Tear dresses. Crazy crow sells them for about $10 a pattern. Those patterns usually have lots of good cultural info in them as well. Sending good medicine your way on your sewing journey!
Wonderful information! Thank you. I'd love to find a pattern for a child's dress.
Nice I like the style of the dress.👗👗👗 here in 2020. ☺☺☺
Thank you for sharing! :D
Walmart is selling a Cherokee Tear Dress pattern. The sleeves and length are very long. Do you know if this pattern has the sleeve arms done correctly? I'd rather get the sleeves done right. I'm trying to follow the video instructions.
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Is there a link to the measurement guide shown during the presentation?
How can I get in touch with this dress maker ?
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how may I get in touch with this dress maker please? Would she replicate the original tear dress for me?
The diamond. There are Herkimer NY quartz crystal diamonds. The tribes traded. Is it possible that this is the origin of the diamond shape? What does the clear quartz stone represent or mean to Native people?
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