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Alison Carpenter resides in Michigan, USA. She specialises in dreamcatchers and other accessories made from chainmaille.
She has been interested in little amounts of metal since high school and she enjoys creating amazing dreamcatchers and jewelry from chainmaille. She was encouraged by a chainmaille member to add beads into her chainmaille pieces and was inspired by several people. All the designs used in her dreamcatchers and jewelry, are uniquely hers. Alison has also been doing beadwork since the 1990's and employs Swarovski crystal beads and other findings in most of her designs.
Alison has three children, she emigrated to Michigan, USA, in May of last year where she now lives permanently and living a happy life with her husband who is also a chainmaille artisan. Besides weaving, she enjoys other crafts like knitting, sewing, writing calligraphy and spending time with her husband and children.
Native Americans believe that the night air is filled with dreams both good and bad. The dream catcher when hung over or near your bed swinging freely in the air, catches the dreams as they flow by. The good dreams know how to pass through the dream catcher, slipping through the outer holes and slide down the soft feathers so gently that many times the sleeper does not know that he/she is dreaming. The bad dreams not knowing the way get tangled in the dream catcher and perish with the first light of the new day.
Using a hoop of willow, and decorating it with findings, bits and pieces of everyday life, (feathers, arrow heads, beads, etc) the dream catcher is believed to have the power to catch all of a person's dreams, trapping the bad ones, and letting only the good dreams pass through the dream catcher.
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