All Dreamcatcher Styles

Muscadine Vine Dreamcatchers - Rustic Natural Beauty

The vine or wood hoop dreamcatcher is a closer representation of the original Ojibwe Dream Catcher than is its leather-wrapped counterpart. Native American legends tell of how the first dreamcatchers were made from willow branches or thick vines which were fashioned into hoops and weaved with sinew in the likeness of a spider's web as in the story of Iktomi. web.

Some tribal tales describe dreamcatchers that were personalized with artifacts from a person's everyday life for instance, certain stones or clay beads, bones and feathers.

Other stories speak of unadorned dreamcatchers made of only a wooden hoop with internal webbing. There are various accounts of masculine and feminine versions and tales that say dreamcatchers were presented to mark the passage of one entering a new stage of life such as birth, adulthood or marriage.