tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924375799798481262024-02-19T04:15:22.784-08:00Purchase a Journey DrumAcross all time and in every culture, persons of power have traveled to alternate realities on the vibrations of a journey drum.Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-49394199448424316012017-09-09T12:50:00.001-07:002017-09-09T12:50:55.645-07:00Drums for strength and calm mind<br />
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These two new drums from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle</a> are spirit companions and family. Both drums came from the same deer hide, which is very rare in my experience as a drum maker.<br />
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And so is their numerology and symbolism related like a sister and brother. Sometimes I think I make these choices with my conscious intention, and sometimes it just happens.<br />
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The interlacement patterns are a "knotless" design to prevent negative forces from attaching to the drum or the drummer when being played.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;">This 14" drum brings energy and inner strength. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;">It helps the drummer have courage, strength, and self-control by bringing the power of 11 to being and staying in one's own center. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">The handhold features a 5-pointed star for clarity and illumination. While drumming, the drummer experiences a harmony and closeness to spirit. </span><br />
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This 12" drum brings clarity to thought, calms the mind and is a guide for inner peace. It helps the drummer find new inspiration by bringing the strength of 9 to help one recognize one's talents. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p>T</o:p>he handhold features a 9-pointed star for the power of faith and kindness toward oneself. The cedar withe is wrapped with traditionally prepared smoke-tanned leather. While drumming, the drummer experiences meditation as sound.<br />
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These drums will be a big or little sister or brother to the drummer in every realm. Listen to the 14" drum of inner strength being played with a felted beater by clicking on this link: <a href="https://youtu.be/sAAwxJWCvn8"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://youtu.be/sAAwxJWCvn8</span></a>. Listen to the 12" drum of calm mind being played with a felted beater by clicking on this link: <a href="https://youtu.be/v-JCuOGBuMA" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://youtu.be/v-JCuOGBuMA</span></a>. You can hear the unique voices of each drum, and also the family resemblance.<br />
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It's good to go on a journey with your sister or brother. <br />
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These drums are available for purchase in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">my webstore</a>, or contact Kristen at journeyoracle@gmail.com for more information. </div>
Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-79239561855421682392017-05-02T16:30:00.000-07:002017-05-02T16:30:11.802-07:00Mystical cloud drum for shamanic journeying<div style="text-align: center;">
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This new drum from the Journey Oracle has its head in the clouds! I am never too sure how a drum will dry and what kind of surface pattern of lights and dark will result.<br />
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I have been thinking about cloud forms as a kind of oracle card or divination technique. I notice an <a href="http://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/The-Mystical-Side-of-Clouds">image in the clouds</a>, and try to remember the thought that just occupied my mind at the same moment. The image and the thought together will bring a message, a confirmation, a revelation. I believe this kind of conversation is not an accident but the other-than-human realms using all of nature to communicate with us.<br />
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Usually I expect to paint a drum, but sometimes the drum face itself is more varied and interesting than anything I can imagine. <a href="http://www.treatiseonpainting.org/intro.html"> Leonardo da Vinci</a> spoke of a method of "quickening the spirit of invention" by advising, "You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or a stones of uneven colour....In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine."<br />
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This drum is a mystical oracle that combines both vision and sound. And takes you to the stars.<br />
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It was not until after this frame drum dried that I realized the connection between its cloud surface and the pentacle design on the reverse.<br />
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Playing this cloud drum will take you into sacred sound while holding onto a star. How is that for a journey to the alternate realities!<br />
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You can hear <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/527323641/cloud-drum-for-shamanic-journeying?ref=shop_home_active_3">this shamanic journey drum</a> being played with <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/509972058/felted-drumstick-with-smoke-tanned?ref=shop_home_active_5">a felted drumstick</a> by clicking on this youtube link: <span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://youtu.be/dPH0X4R1Gq4. </span>Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-73073774313512156552017-04-10T09:35:00.000-07:002017-04-10T09:35:05.663-07:00Tom Tom drum on fire-hardened cedar wood<div style="text-align: center;">
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This drum has a voice and inspires a rhythm that can join heaven and earth. It is not only <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">oracle cards</a> that call old wisdom. The <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">art of divination</a> may allow us to glimpse the will of the gods, but this drum allows us to dance with them.<br />
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The design of this tom tom or kettle drum is thought to be Native American or Asian in origin.<br />
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The two drum heads are goat skin. A hide which is remarkable for its strength and thinness, giving a percussive, "bright" sound.<br />
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The shoulder strap and braided thongs are made of elk skin. Elk is one of the keepers of old wisdom in my family. My father was a skilled and respectful hunter of elk in the forests around my childhood home on the Oregon coast. When he died, his grave was located along the edge of woods where he often hunted. For years the elk would come out of the dense stands of trees along the border of the cemetery, and paw the grass off the top of his grave.<br />
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Perhaps the most remarkable part of this drum to call old wisdom is the cedar wood shell. Like oracle cards whose history travels back into the mists of time, the process for making fire-hardened wood is ancient.<br />
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The bark is tied onto the outside of the log to prevent the shell from being scratched. Then the inside is hollowed out with a long handled chisel until the thickness of the rim is twice what the finished drum base will be. And then the really exciting part of the process happens. The inner wood chips and strips are put back inside the log and set on fire. The drum shell is rolled continuously for several hours to keep the fire constantly moving so the inner rim is evenly burned. The outside of the bark-covered log is regularly sprayed with water to prevent "hot spots" from burning too far into the wooden rim.<br />
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When the drum shell is cooled and the charcoal is chiseled away from the inside of the rim, a spirit hole is burned into the wood so there is a doorway between this world and that one. This becomes the threshold where the drummer and the gods may connect without connecting, as the drum's voice is the translator that is always in between.<br />
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You can hear this tom tom drum being played by the talented hands of Immanuel McKenty of the <a href="http://www.merrymckentys.com/">Merry McKentys</a> family band, by clicking on this youtube link: <a href="https://youtu.be/xoQanPe0Gg4">https://youtu.be/xoQanPe0Gg4</a>. This drum is available for purchase in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">Etsy webstore</a>, or you can contact Kristen at journeyoracle@gmail.com.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A new drum all about the love of cats. This Cat Goddess has
appeared with one eye looking into the possibility of kitty comfort and one eye
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bast, the Cat Goddess of ancient Egypt, also has this
multi-dimensional nature. She is both a Sun and a Moon Goddess because of
her sacred and all-seeing eye. She is the Goddess of <span style="background: white;">sensual pleasure, protector of the household, bringer of health, and the
guardian saint of firefighters.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white;">Sometimes she is
shown holding a sistrum, a rattle used as a musical instrument in ancient times
and associated with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hathor. Agile and lithe, Bast was recognized as the
goddess of music and dance</span><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white;">The Priestesses of
Bast dressed in the color red, because Bast was the daughter of the Sun God,
Ra.</span> <span style="background: white;">She would ride
through the sky with her father, protecting him from his enemies. And
here our Cat Goddess sits atop a Priestess's red robe. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white;">The interlacement
pattern tied into the back of this cat drum represents the Ninefold Goddess.
Nine is sacred in Arabic numbers because the digits of every multiple of
nine add up to nine again. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And how perfect for the love of cats, who are
said to have nine lives. This myth may have begun in ancient Egypt.
Atum-Ra, was a sun god who gave life to the gods of air, moisture, earth
and sky, who, in turn, produced Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. These
gods are collectively known as the Ennead, or the Nine.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can listen to
this drum being played with a felted drumstick by clicking on this
link: <a href="https://youtu.be/dWx-yakAXfs">https://youtu.be/dWx-yakAXfs</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This drum is available for purchase in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">Etsy webstore</a>, or contact Kristen at journeyoracle@gmail.com. </span></div>
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Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-749091941919101852016-12-29T20:18:00.002-08:002016-12-29T20:18:47.655-08:00 A new drum that turns weakness into strength<div style="text-align: center;">
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Ever wonder how to turn a weakness into a strength? This story of turning weakness into strength is about the making of a new frame drum from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">Journey Oracle</a>.<br />
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The blacktail deer hide came from a old hunter here on <a href="http://www.cortesisland.com/">Cortes Island</a>, whose eyesight and steady hands are failing. The skin had a number of fleshing cuts but as these did not go through the hide, I took a chance calculated on experience that the finished drum would be alright.<br />
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The drum made up beautifully--the skin laying just right on the frame, which did not warp . Yet after the drum dried these two stretch marks appeared in the drum rim.<br />
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I had tied an interlacement pattern in the back of this drum that represents the 8-fold path of the Buddha's teaching: a way to gain enlightenment through right effort, mindfulness and concentration.<br />
So here was the drum's first teaching about strength and weakness. The weakness in the drum rim has its balancing strength built right in: strengthen weakness with mindful attention. The person who will <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/501944743/elder-wisdom-frame-drum">own this drum</a> will have to pay attention to keeping the drum away from extremes in temperature so the stretch marks do not become tears. And in spiritual practice and life--sustained attention is strength.<br />
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I decided to paint this shamanic drum and began looking for who was looking back at me. Soon I saw this remarkable bird. At first I thought it was an eagle but it became what <a href="http://www.floweringmountain.com/">Martin Prechtel</a> would call "a never before seen thing." The shaman bird.<br />
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When I paint a drum I look for a story. Only rarely does a single creature or person appear without being in relationship. And so I kept looking.<br />
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I saw a figure of an old woman. This is the drum's second teaching about strength and weakness. Most of us think that being old is being susceptible to weakness. But she is holding a smoking bowl in her hand. Making an offering. Offering the wisdom of experience is a strength, yet stories from elders, how they make or do something, can seem sometimes as wispy as smoke.<br />
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But look who is coming to listen. See what the offering of wisdom through the experience of mindful attention can bring.<br />
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14" BC spruce wood frame</div>
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Blacktail deer hide</div>
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cedar withe, smoke-tanned doeskin</div>
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raw earth pigments</div>
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View this drum in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">Etsy webstore. </a></div>
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For more information or to contact Kristen email</div>
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<br />Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-45486579118622520112016-09-25T16:07:00.001-07:002016-09-25T16:07:23.285-07:00A life journey frame drum<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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This is a frame drum for the development of wisdom on the life journey. </div>
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The 14” Spruce wood frame is covered with a blacktail deer hide from <a href="http://www.cortesisland.com/">Cortes Island</a>. This drum has the clear strong voice of youth. The skin was from a young deer with few scars and blemishes. A creature that gives the strength of its life journey to your sacred drumming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cedar withie ring is filled with an 8-fold path interlacement pattern.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since ancient times an interlacement pattern has been considered a magical charm because the endless line drew the eye around and around the figure without any breaks or “gates” through which negative forces might enter. Thus such a pattern could become a yantra for meditation or used to induce a trance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The magical properties of this pattern includes the twelve small triangles (the zodiacal twelve), and the central diamond around which the apexes of four larger triangles interlock. Thus the design not only references the 8 steps of the Buddhist Noble Path which are right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration. It also contains the mystic threes and fours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>Learn more about my drums and how I became a drum-maker by visiting my <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">Journey Oracle website</a>. This drum is available for purchase in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">my Etsy webstore</a>. If you are interested in a conversation with me about a painting for this drum, or if you are interested in ordering a custom-made frame drum, email me at journeyoracle@gmail.com. </o:p></div>
Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-62781510372682435972016-09-13T20:34:00.001-07:002016-09-13T20:35:24.201-07:00A new shamanic drum from an old wisdom<div class="MsoNormal">
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This is the drum made from the hide that I was going to throw away.<br />
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In another post <a href="http://journey-oracle.blogspot.ca/2016/08/talking-to-creatures-in-nature.html">I told the story </a>of talking to nature, and how I thought this skin was too thick and old until I listened to a Pileated Woodpecker who said "This is a good drum."<br />
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You can hear the beautiful deep voice that has come from this old Shaman deer by clicking on this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8q9OrpptBw">youtube link</a>.<br />
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How many times do we all think to discard something because it isn't quite to our specifications? The rolled aluminum hoop that that I use as a mold for this 17" hoop of British Columbia Spruce wood is cracked and so <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">this shamanic frame drum</a> is not quite round.<br />
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Yet the cedar withie that holds the drum head around the frame, and secures the voice of the drum, is from the strongest part of the tree.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The interlacement pattern on the reverse is a double 7 pointed star wrapped with doeskin. This unusual design is made of a continuous length of thong. This pattern is considered magical protection because there are no "gates" or breaks in the continuous line through which difficult energies can enter.<br />
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So the next time you are wondering what to keep and what to throw away...go outside, pause to clear your mind of its tumbling conversation, and ask nature what is good. A bird just might fly by with the answer.<br />
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This drum of ancient wisdom in available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">Etsy webstore</a>. Or for more information contact Kristen at jouneyoracle@gmail.com.Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-31494748548739075332016-07-08T13:58:00.002-07:002016-07-08T13:58:41.574-07:00How to buy the best drum for shamanic drumming<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have been building <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">frame drums for shamanic drumming</a> since 1989 and I have learned a few tips for how to buy the best frame drum. There are three things to look at when buying a frame or hoop drum: <i>tension, balance</i> and <i>whole attention</i>. Here are examples of each from my newest drum.<br />
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A visibly even <i>tension</i> is perhaps the most important factor to consider. Deer hide is like fabric--it has a bias. The skin from the sides of the animal is thinner and more stretchy than the skin along the backbone. This means that if the hide is stretched the same amount over the hoop, the hoop will bow or warp when the skin dries because the different amounts of tension in the skin were not taken into account.<br />
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The first thing I want to do when a new drum is dry is this--to look across the drum's face and see a flat playing surface. In an odd way that is good advice for much of life, to obtain an even result sometimes one must at first be intentionally uneven.<br />
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<i>Balance</i> is the second critical factor. When the back of the drum is uneven in its construction, it is likely that the voice of the drum will also be uneven. By this I mean the drum's playing surface will have dead spots and areas of reduced harmonics.<br />
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This tying technique, which results in a flower-like pattern, is a Passamaquoddy design I learned when <a href="http://journeyoracle.com/how-i-became-a-drum-maker/">I made my first drums while living in Nova Scotia</a>. It is easy to see that the entire drum is balanced if the flower petals are equal in size and shape.<br />
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The third factor I call <i>whole attention</i>. Every part of the drum, and every part between the part, is whole. Every part deserves the same level of attention.<br />
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When the knot work the wraps the hand hold in the back of the drum is even in tension and well balanced in the thickness of the doeskin thong used, then the finished result will be firm and durable.<br />
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Of course the best indicator of a good frame drum for shamanic drumming is the sound of the drum. The voice should be layered with a good range of overtones and bass tones. The drone of the drum voice is the tone that continues after each strike with the beater. This tone is called "the good horse" and its continuous sound is used to propel the drummer into the spirit world on a shamanic journey. The "finish" of the voice should be long and even so that a drone continues from one strike of the drumstick to the next. If the voice "falls off" between strikes, creating a brief pause between beats, then the skin is too thick or the stretch is too tight. </div>
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<a href="http://journeyoracle.com/journey-oracle/youtube-movies-with-journey-oracle/">You can listen to my drums being played </a>with a felt beater on my <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">Journey Oracle website</a>, and hear the subtle blending of tension, balance, size and stretch in the drum's voices. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdccCqMCeA">youtube movie </a>of a new drum demonstrates one of the finest drones I have ever stretched in a frame drum. <br />
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The drum being played was made as a celebration of Death. You can purchase this drum in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/463275347/frame-drum-to-celebrate-death?ref=shop_home_active_2">Etsy webstore. </a><br />
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Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-16187789090144415902016-06-29T20:59:00.000-07:002016-07-08T14:02:02.321-07:00A Frame drum to celebrate Death<div class="MsoNormal">
This is a drum to die for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What an idea for our time. To celebrate death as an opening to new beginnings. And yet we each do this every day, every moment. Nothing can be born without a dying. Every death is a cause of something new to appear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This new drum from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle </a>is a celebration of death as a doorway. Death is the doorway.</div>
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This beautiful blacktail deer on Cortes Island died and so this drum could be born. So our spiritual practice could have a voice. This is not bad. This is normal. We all die. We all have a voice that will become another voice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like fractals in Nature—a nonlinear pattern that repeats itself—the handhold of this drum repeats the pattern of the opening in the deer’s hide. This polished circle of <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=australian+moonstone&espv=2&rlz=1C1TSCD_enCA458CA460&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi91IP2p8zNAhWE7YMKHZQzCYAQsAQIKg&biw=1060&bih=585">Australian moonstone</a> is a celebration of the space inside the stone. </div>
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It is not the material that surrounds a hole that is so much important. It is the space inside that is being outlined for us to see. This opening. Held in a spider’s web of possibility. So fragile and yet strong enough to hold a new beginning that is worth the dying for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This drum is available through my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/463275347/frame-drum-to-celebrate-death">Etsy webstore</a>. <a href="http://journeyoracle.com/how-i-became-a-drum-maker/">Click on this link </a>to enjoy more stories about how I became a drum maker, You can hear this drum being played with a felted drumstick by clicking on this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdccCqMCeA">youtube link</a>. This is one of the finest shamanic journey drones I have ever stretched in a frame drum. </div>
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Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-2656790873267859992016-05-10T20:46:00.000-07:002016-05-10T20:46:01.697-07:00A drum for the Wise Child<div style="text-align: center;">
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This new drum from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle</a> comes with quite a story. As I worked on the hide it became known to me as the "wise child" because the hide is very thin and small with only one deep scratch on the otherwise unblemished surface.<br />
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A young deer without physical scars or a thick skin from a long life. Yet the skin is deeply patterned and marked with shapes and shadows--like <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/209912580/oracle-messages-from-magic-cards?ref=related-0">oracle cards of stories waiting to be told</a>.<br />
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I tied the back with the interlacement pattern of the magic hexagram.<br />
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The hexagram was popular with medieval magicians. However, its usual form consisted of two triangles that were interlaced but entirely separate from each other.<br />
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This version of the six-sided hexagram is tied in such a way that the thong makes an unbroken line, which means that no negative energies can stick because there are no knots, or "gates," through which spiritual dangers can enter.<br />
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Some drums do not ask to be painted because the surface of the skin is already so marked with flickering images.<br />
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To choose one would be to diminish all the others that are also speaking. Like only letting one voice be heard in a story-telling circle of wise children.<br />
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To purchase this drum, go to <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">my Etsy webstore</a>.<br />
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Who doesn't like winter comfort? Keeping warm in the embrace of what loves us, while the snow feathers down and stars sparkle like ice chips in the winter sky. This new drum from the<a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/"> Journey Oracle</a> is painted with just a few strokes of black iron oxide, cobalt blue and titanium zircon silicate raw earth pigments.<br />
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The mother bear's head was always in my view, even as the drum was drying. Her eye seemed to watch me from the first stiffening of the <a href="http://www.cortesisland.com/">Cortes Island</a> blacktail deer hide.<br />
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I thought I was going to paint a strong male bear striding across the frame drum surface. As soon as I made out the bear's head I spent some time researching Ursa Major, the Great Beat constellation that contains the Big Dipper, one of the most recognized patterns in the night sky.<br />
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It was in honor of the great bear that I tied a double Pentacle into the back of the drum, thinking this was a drum for the stars. This complicated pattern of over and under weaving became even more intricate when the hitching was added with smoke tanned leather.<br />
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Imagine my surprise when the little cub appeared.<br />
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The bear is the Oracle of winter in our Canadian north. Heralding its onset by withdrawing into warm darkness to bring forth new life. Appearing in the first spring thaw with new energy to nurture and protect.<br />
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As we approach the heart of Winter on February 2nd, may we all be warm and safe as we nurture new energy and projects for the coming spring.<br />
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You can listen to this 17" frame drum being played with a felted drumstick by clicking on this youtube link: <span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/642ywYgyIWI">https://youtu.be/642ywYgyIWI</a>. </span><br />
<span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><br /></span>If this is your drum please go to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">my webstore</a> for purchase and shipping information.Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-19353161741573081502015-12-03T18:18:00.000-08:002015-12-03T18:18:05.918-08:00Painted drum with animal spirits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And for many months as I worked with my <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">Journey Oracle cards</a> and went on hiking holidays, the drum stayed clear and smooth without my effort but for the stabilizing of the bullet hole in the rim,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the wrapping of the eight pointed interlacement pattern of transformation woven into the back cedar ring of the drum. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The drum transformed, as all beings do, and this was the first creature to be seen floating above the bowl.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the bird was not the last but only the next, as it in turn leans against a cat.<span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Kristen%20Scholfield-Sweet" datetime="2015-12-02T10:03"><o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Each of these animals holds a place in the heart of my spiritual growth. The fox of my personality is held by my bear and bird teachers. The cat and the snake are the closest to the good work that comes through the stem of intention and out from the bowl into action. So I guess you could say this is a family portrait. What creatures are part of your family portrait?<o:p></o:p><br />
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Listen to the voices in this drum by clicking on this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1u0JM9OuYs">youtube link.</a> This 14" frame drum of Cortes Island blacktail deer hide and BC spruce wood is available in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle?ref=hdr_shop_menu">my webstore</a>.</div>
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This new drum from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle</a> is called “dreampipe” and how it got its name is a good story.<br />
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A friend called to tell me that a beautiful sailboat was in her bay that looked like our <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=bristol+29.9+sailboat&rlz=1C1TSCD_enCA458CA460&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CDAQsARqFQoTCOaNpuyJy8gCFQEPPgod7DsG1w&biw=1242&bih=615">Bristol 29.9</a>. She thought the make was a dream pipe. While I was talking to her, I was also putting the final leather thongs on the reverse of this drum.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I turned it over and was surprised to see a pipe in the patterning of the blacktail deer skin.<br />
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I went on line and discovered the sailboat is a <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=pipe+dream+36+sailboat&rlz=1C1TSCD_enCA458CA460&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CDUQsARqFQoTCPbFy6nqysgCFUVsPgod4bIE-A&biw=1366&bih=643">Pipe Dream 36’</a> which does indeed look like a bigger version of our <i>Pearl</i>. But by now the drum was showing me images in the white streaks of smoke rising from the bowl of dreams.<o:p></o:p><br />
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This 14” frame of British Columbia Spruce wood also has a special task: stabilizing the drum skin around the bullet hole that is positioned on the rim. When a thin, clear skin has the bullet hole as part of the drum, I consider this a doorway. For this drum a path to the dreamtime.<o:p></o:p><br />
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This drum for dreaming also has a beautiful teaching in the Octagram tied into the cedar withy ring for the hand-hold of the drum. This is the sign of regeneration. The two squares that make the central motif can be seen as a square and a diamond. That which is hard and clear from the past combined with that which is solid and grounded in the present. <o:p></o:p><br />
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I will paint this drum, but first I like to offer a drum with its own face, just in case you want to see your own dreams in the patterns of light and shadow.<br />
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14" Spruce wood hoop</div>
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Cortes Island Blacktail deer hide</div>
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visit <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/journeyoracle?ref=hdr_shop_menu">my webstore</a> for price and shipping details</div>
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I’ve just finished painting this <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">new native style frame drum</a> with a spruce wood hoop and blacktail deer hide. The hoop is 12" in diameter but the voice is deep and strong. A perfect drum to play outside because the smaller drum head size will not easily slacken in humidity or warp in heat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This drum was first called "rain" because spirits always come in the rain, and our drought here in British Columbia was ended (briefly) with two days of rain just before I painted this great cat touching a pool of rainwater. It has been so dry and the fire danger extreme, and I kept wondering, "What do the animals do? How do they find water to survive?" </div>
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The painting itself was inspired in the brief moment I drew a faint black line across the light area in the drum head which at first I thought was entirely the cat’s paw. Suddenly the lower half of the shape became a reflection, and the faint squiggles in the deer skin’s surface resolved themselves into lines in rock and edges formed by water. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The star design is repeated twice, with the outer pattern wrapped in a decorative hitching of sailor’s knotwork made of doeskin. In the Tarot, 14 is the number of Temperance—the quality of being moderate; to restrain from extremes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps the life-saving rain came in that world as well as this world, and the spirit of cougar is showing me that for this moment, the extreme has been moderated and all is well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>For more information about this drum please visit <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/journeyoracle?ref=ss_profile">my web store</a>. </o:p></div>
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This native style frame drum is hand made with a spruce wood hoop and blacktail deer hide.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Numerous mystic sevens include the seven planetary spirits, seven deadly sins, seven churches of Asia, seven sacraments, seven days of creation, seven ages of man, seven pillars of wisdom, seven liberal arts, seven virtues, seven wonders of the world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The star design is repeated twice, with the outer pattern wrapped in decorative sailor’s knotwork of doeskin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This drum is called “Little Brother” because it was taken from a deerskin that provided a second larger drum head. It is very unusual for such a thin skin from a young deer to contain two drums. To read more about my <a href="http://journeyoracle.com/journey-drums/">shamanic drums</a> go to <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">www.journeyoracle.com</a>. To purchase Little Brother go to <a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/journeyoracle">my web store</a>. The larger drum that I call “Big Sister” is being finished and will also be available for purchase soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This drum has had the larger splits stabilized using small headed furniture tacks, and holes burned into the leading edge of smaller tears to stop their progress.<br />
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I assemble a needle nose pliers, a small hammer and nickel plated furniture tacks.</div>
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And also a wire cutter and small pair of vice grips. I shorten the shank of each tack by almost 1/2 so I am not trying to pound its full length into the drum rim. </div>
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The tack is then re-sharpened using a small taper file, again by holding it with the vice grips </div>
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The needle nosed pliers make it possible to grip the tack and keep it steadily positioned on the drum rim to one side of the tear.</div>
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Both sides of each larger split are anchored with tacks driven straight down into the center of the drum rim. Takes a bit of courage to begin!</div>
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For smaller splits that have a clear leading edge, I use a large bodkin, or yarn needle, to burn a hole just where the tear ends. I am sure to mark the precise location with a pencil before heating the needle with a propane torch, because when the tip is red hot is not the time to go searching for the target. </div>
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While not every split is capable of being stabilized using these two techniques, hopefully the overall effect will give the drum more years of being a voice for spirit. </div>
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It is interesting to notice that most tears cluster on one side of a drum, as shown here by the position of the tacks. This hoop is very strong, so when the uneven tension in the skin had to find release, it did so cracking itself, rather than by deforming the hoop. </div>
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The paintings on my drums come from gazing into the newly dried hide and seeing forms appear in the mottled surface. When I make a shamanic rattle, it is as if the drum images come alive in the three dimensional forms of dried skin.<br />
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The basic form is made by sewing wet rawhide into a shape, and then packing the interior with wet, clean, coarse-grained sand. The rawhide shape is allowed to dry for several days until the sand can be knocked out, leaving a hard hollow form.<br />
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This Fancy Dancer is made of such complex twists and turns that its not really possible to understand its overall form, which seems to match my experience of watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYr70YN9dAs">fancy dancers at tribal pow wows</a>. In the rattle all the color and detail is on the inside, made of the seeds, stones and other sacred objects filling the rawhide shells.<br />
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Sometimes the shaman rattle takes a shape that was not planned or intended. It just happens in the curls of leftover hide scraps from making a drum, and suddenly, an Octopus spirit is born.<br />
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This rattle of Eagle spirit had a powerful beginning story. We live on a northern island, known for its wild places and eagles. Many years ago, when I first moved to <a href="http://www.cortesisland.com/">Cortes</a>, I asked at the beginning of a canoe trip, "May I please be honored to find an eagle feather." Someone had given me the breast bone of a large bird and I understood that if I received an eagle feather this would confirm that the bone was from an eagle. The 28 feathers that I found on that weekend became this shamanic rattle, used for eating from the body energy that is out of phase.<br />
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Sometimes a drum fails--the wood warps or the hide develops cracks. When this happens the image comes alive as neither a drum nor a rattle. This drum face was cut away from a twisted frame and became a dimensional painting of birth: the beaded blood lines becoming black headed sperm seeds swimming through turkey feathers to contact the egg that will be the mother and child. </div>
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Now that I am returned from holiday, and the 2nd edition of the <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">Journey Oracle divination deck </a>is ready to pick up from the printer--I will be focusing on creating an online oracle reading. </div>
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And I knew this was an Oracle. Her expression is too mysterious for me to decipher. Just as in the making of this drum, the understanding of who is speaking shifts and flows like the fire.<br />
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Blacktail deer hide, Spruce and Cedar wood</div>
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I cut 10 feet of thong to cover 5 inches of drumstick. I learned these calculations from my favorite book of ropework projects: <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/des-pawsons-knot-craft-9781408119495/">Des Pawson's Knot Craft</a>. I am going to use St. Mary's hitching to cover the center section of this drumstick, so I also cut a second thong of 5 feet. </div>
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I'll conclude this photo album another time with a description of how I finish the handle of the drumstick. You can see these and other drumstick styles by going to <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle</a> website or my webstore on <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/journeyoracle?ref=shop_sugg">Etsy</a>. </div>
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This photo album will show how I make a felted drumstick for my <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">shamanic frame drums</a>. Unwashed wool that has lots of lanolin works best. This wool is from the Falkland Islands and some of the best I have used. Maybe it is because the sheep protect themselves from the cold with lots of oil.<br />
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First I card the wool and peel off each section, setting these aside until I have 6-7 lengths with which to form the head.<br />
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Next the wool sections are laid over a hardwood dowel that has its ends rounded and is sanded along its length, At this stage everything looks quite fragile.<br />
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As more and more pieces of wool are added and the wool is pressed with my hands, the shape begins to resemble a drumstick, but of something I would like for a special dinner.<br />
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Once the wool is shaped, and I can feel that the thickness on the tip and sides is about the same density, I gather a boiling kettle of water, a stone, dish soap, and the drumstick on a old broiler pan.<br />
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This is the scary part!. It seems that all my hard work to shape the wool has disappeared into soap and water. In fact, this is the scary part. If the wool wraps around itself and folds over, it will felt to itself instead of into the shape I want--making creases and lines in the finished felt.<br />
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As soon as I can tolerate the heat, I use my fingers instead of the stone to push the wool into the stick. The hot water causes the wool to shrink, and the liquid soap causes the fibres to slip past each other.<br />
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At some point I cut off the bottom length of wool that stretches down the stick as I squeeze.<br />
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This new painted shamanic drum from the <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">Journey Oracle</a> has always been called Old Sister, even before I saw who Old Sister was. A wolf. So why is a wolf the Old Sister? What is the symbolic meaning of wolves?<br />
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I understand that wolves are our oldest companions and teachers. They symbolize the essence of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Totem">wild un-tamed spirit</a>. Wolves are highly intelligent, will avoid aggression if possible, and take care of each other with devoted loyalty. They are a symbol of an intact wholesome relationship with the wild.<br />
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So this is our old sister, singing us back to the mystery of our earliest memories, when humans and creatures sang together.<br />
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The interlacement pattern on the back of the drum is also an "old sister." The <a href="http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usma&c=basics&id=2875">Pentacle</a> is the most revered of all esoteric symbols, and in ancient times meant "life" or "health." The Earth Mother herself gives us the sign of the pentacle in a transversely cut apple core.<br />
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This pattern of sailor's whipping combines French hitching with a sinnet design to create a practical and artful way of holding the interwoven stars. The smoke-tanned leather brings back ancient memories of campfires in the deep woods.<br />
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In the voice of this drum Shamanism and the Old Religion are combined to help us find the way back to our wild and spiritual family.<br />
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If this is your Old Sister, visit my Web Store at <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">www.journeyoracle.com</a> or contact Kristen at journeyoracle@gmail.com<br />
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Listen to this drum being played with a felted drumstick by clicking on this link:<br />
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I have been building drumsticks for my <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/journey-drums.html">shamanic frame drums</a> for many years, and just like the interlacement patterns on the backs of my shaman drums, my drumsticks keep becoming more elaborate.<br />
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Adding the felted beater head changed the range of and quality of drum sounds. Now my drumsticks have two heads--one of wool and the other of padded smoke-tanned leather.<br />
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Next I added different styles of sailor's hitching on the stick shaft, which is both decorative and also carries the memory of those who were willing to journey away from land into the unknown.<br />
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Now I am experimenting with adding rattles to the drumstick. This set of 5 deer toe bones is on a removable collar that can be used, re-positioned or removed, depending on the drummer's intention. Five represents to me the five layers of time as taught by <a href="http://www.floweringmountain.com/">Martin Prechtel</a>.<br />
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This means the sound, which is a quiet clicking accompaniment to the harmonics of the drum, is traveling through all time. As if a snake companion was sounding its warning of approaching healing and transformation.<br />
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If you would like me to design a custom drumstick for you, contact Kristen at journeyoracle@gmail.com. See more of my drums and the Journey Oracle cards at <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">www.journeyoracle.com</a>.</div>
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This new 14" drum from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle</a>--of blacktail doe hide on a spruce wood frame is special for lots of reasons. I very rarely receive a doe skin from the <a href="http://www.cortesisland.com/">Cortes Island</a> hunters who bring me hides. Doe hide is much thinner and so the overlay of harmonics is quite amazing.<br />
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This wonderful horse has been present to my gaze since the drum first dried, but I could not figure out how she was standing. This is because she is not standing at all, but walking right out of the Mystery toward the drummer. Yes, I know horses' eyes do not look forward, but spirit horses can look in any direction they want.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-25847592729013968282014-10-15T21:10:00.001-07:002014-10-15T21:10:36.560-07:00New drums from Journey Oracle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are two new frame drums from <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/">the Journey Oracle</a>. Before I paint a frame drum I pay attention to the story in the deerskin, and also to the choices I make while assembling the drum. In this case, the story of two drums in one deer skin. This is very rare since the deer must be big, long bodied and young--not a usual combination for our small <a href="http://www.cortesisland.com/">Cortes Island</a> blacktail deer. The deerskin also had quite a few scratches on the hide, the result of the animal rubbing against trees. This was an interesting connection to the image I saw when I first gazed at the inner side of the raw hide, before I began to remove the hair and flesh, and saw the image of a tree trunk with deer teeth marks on its bark. So the deer "playing" the tree is a strong message for me.<br />
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The last time I made two drums from one skin was to create a pair of drums called <i>water</i> <i>sister</i> and l<i>ightening brother</i>, who in their images told part of the story of the Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, written by <a href="http://www.floweringmountain.com/">Martin Prechtel</a>. In their deeply patterned surfaces these drums are also joining together to tell a story and I find myself calling them <i>old sister</i> and <i>young brother.</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>The image of a <a href="http://www.native-languages.org/legends-rattlesnake.htm">rattlesnake</a> is quite clear to me in <i>young brother</i>. Find the three rattles in the lower center and you too will see the snake coiling upon itself in a tight ball of energy. What a powerful symbol of healing and transformation.<br />
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<i>Old sister </i>is more of a puzzle. I see the face of an old woman with a sweet grandmotherly smile in the left center, but what is she holding? I think this is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixchel">Ixchel</a>, the Mayan Jaguar Goddess of Midwifery, so then she is likely holding a rabbit. And if this is so, and the rabbit is food for the rattlesnake, then the two drums together tell a story of regeneration--of death and rebirth--in both heaven and earth.<br />
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The interlacement patterns on the back of these two drums echo this message. The <i>old sister </i>drum has a pentacle flower, which represents heaven and earth, while the <i>young brother </i>drum has a handfast of the magic hexagram, which represents protection from spiritual danger.<br />
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I think, sometimes, that the most fun of painting a drum is before I paint a frame drum.<br />
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14" frame drum of blacktail deer and Spruce wood</div>
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Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492437579979848126.post-49743049857413414832014-09-07T18:39:00.000-07:002014-09-07T18:39:01.104-07:00How I make a frame drumI just finished a 19 image photo album on my Journey Oracle page on facebook showing how I make a frame drum. Here are some of the highlights.<br />
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A frame drum has humble and yet powerful beginnings in a bath of "hot lime" and cold water.<br />
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I include pictures of me using a break knife and an ulu for preparing the hide, and show how I cut out the drum head.<br />
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I even share a secret for finishing the drum hoop to keep the dried drum skin from buzzing when played for <a href="http://www.journeyoracle.com/journey-drums.html">the shamanic journey</a>.<br />
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I demonstrate the most important first cut that fits the skin to the hoop and "sets the drum voice."<br />
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There are lots of images of constructing the back of the drum: punching holes and lacing thongs to anchor the back of the drum to the cedar withie that keeps the drum skin stable and balanced on the hoop.<br />
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Even when completely dry, the drum is not complete without the interlacement pattern I weave inside the cedar ring that becomes the hand hold for the drummer.<br />
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See the full story of how the Cloud Drum was made on facebook.Kristen Scholfield-Sweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00728506078666565401noreply@blogger.com