Ivory and Fine Silver Tatting Shuttle

Collect and enjoy the elegance of ivory and fine silver! Dave carved this 3 inch drop tatting shuttle from 10,000 year old mammoth ivory, like the chunk pictured in the photo (the large chunk is not for sale).

This piece of ancient ivory is cream colored on one side and darker brown color on the reverse. Dave inlayed it with a filigree disk of fine silver. JoAnna makes these fine silver filigree inlay discs using Precious Metal Clay. She molds the metal clay and then kiln fires it to 1650 degrees. The organic clay binder burns away melting the fine silver particles into 99.9% pure silver. Dave then carved a round recess into the shuttle and inset the silver disc to a near flush level. This shuttle has been initialed and dated by Dave.

This beautiful one-of-a-kind tatting shuttle is currently up for auction on Ebay. Please click here if you would like to view this auction and more photos of this shuttle.

Ancient Mammoth Ivory Nalbinding Needles

Dave hand carved this set of nalbinding needles out of ancient woolly mammoth ivory from Siberia Russia. The ivory is at least 10,000 years old. The longer rounded needle is 3 7/8 inches long and the flat needle is 3 ½ inches long and they come with a velour pouch. Each is initialed by Dave. Perfect for SCA Ren-Faire! This set comes with a copy of the Affidavit of Ivory Origin.

These nalbinding needles are currently up for auction on Ebay. Please click here if you would like to view this auction.

Handmade Pyro-Art Tatting Shuttle

Dave handmade this 3 inch shuttle from Maple wood and freehand burn etched the floral design using a razor tip pyro tool. Each of Dave's shuttles are one-of-a-kind and have been initialed and dated.

This tatting shuttle is currently up for auction on Ebay.

Ancient Ivory Medieval Norse Nalbinding Needles

Dave was recently contacted by a fiber artist who asked if he had ever made any medieval Norse nalbinding needles. He hadn't, but immediately began researching this tool as he loves adding new fiber art tools to his repertoire. All of our nalbinding needles are hand carved from ancient ivory and can be viewed in the Fiber Art Tools section of our online Etsy shop.

If you are like us and have never heard of "Nalbinding", which can be spelled several different ways, the excerpt below is from Wikipedia and gives an explanation of this ancient art form:

"Nålebinding (Danish: literally "binding with a needle" or "needle-binding", also naalbinding or naalebinding) is a fabric creation technique predating both knitting and crochet. Also known in English as "knotless netting," "knotless knitting," [1]or "single needle knitting," the technique is distinct from crochet in that it involves passing the full length of the working thread through each loop, unlike crochet where the work is formed only of loops, never involving the free end.

More information on this medieval art can be found here.

Crafts on the Coast Annual Spring Arts and Crafts Fair - Yachats

It's that time of year again! Time to go to Yachats! This quaint seaside village is one of our most favorite places in Oregon. If you happen to be going to the coast for Memorial Day weekend, be sure and stop by and say "Hi!".

We will be taking most of our items in our Grizzly Mountain Arts Etsy shop to this show. If you have a favorite item in our shop, you may want to buy it soon or it may get sold at the show.
Saturday 10 a.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. -3 p.m.

Crafts on the Coast Annual Spring Arts and Crafts Fair - Yachats
Information: (541)547-4664, (541)547-4738. Held inside the Yachats Commons, Hwy. 101 and W 4th St.

Rosewood and Fine Silver Tatting Shuttle

Dave hand carved this 3 inch shuttle from Honduras Rosewood. JoAnna makes the fine silver filigree inlay discs using Precious Metal Clay. She molds the metal clay and then kiln fires it to 1650 degrees. The organic clay binder burns away melting the fine silver particles into 99.9% pure silver. Dave then carved a round recess into the shuttle and inset the silver disc to a near flush level. It is initialed and dated by Dave. This tatting shuttle is currently up for auction on Ebay, with a starting bid of 99 cents!

Oregon Cascades Myrtlewood Tatting Shuttle Number 10

Made with love on Grizzly Mountain!

Number 10 of our signature Oregon Myrtlewood tatting shuttles is completed! This 2 5/8 inch post style tatting shuttle was handcrafted from Oregon Myrtlewood and has been burn etched with our Oregon Cascade Logo. This shuttle has been signed and numbered by Dave, and is for sale in our Etsy.com shop.

You may notice that new items are not showing up regularly in both of our Etsy.com shops and on Ebay. Both of us are currently fighting the flu and spending more couch time than creative time. We hope to be back up to speed soon, so please keep checking in to see if we've added new items!

Back in Oregon!

After a whirlwind of a trip to visit family in southwestern and northern Oklahoma, we are back in Oregon safe and sound. We had really hoped to see some exciting weather while we were there, but it waited and chased us out of Oklahoma City this morning. It was in the 90's in Oklahoma, but as you can see in the above photo taken at our local airport, it's still a little chilly here.

As much as we love visiting our family, to quote Dorthy Gale of Kansas, "There's no place like home" :)

Oklahoma Here We Come!

Technically, our plane doesn't leave until Wednesday morning, but as of today, Grizzly Mountain Arts/Grizzly Mountain Cache is on vacation!

Both of us are from "tornado alley", so living in the high desert makes us miss the excitement that spring brings to Oklahoma. We decided to make our annual trek to visit family during the peak tornado season, so keep your fingers crossed that we don't get to visit OZ while we're there :) Update--For the record, Jo is from Texas--that should have been mentioned when this was originally posted. If you are from Texas, you understand what a faux paux it was on my part to omit this fact :)

Being the geeks that we are, we will have our laptop and will be able to answer email and convos (that's an Etsy thing), but we will not be able to mail any items that are purchased through either of our Etsy.com shops until we return. Our replies may not be a quick as usual, but we will answer them ASAP. We will be back home on May 7, so any items purchased while we are away will not be mailed until at least May 8th.

Before we leave, Dave will be listing a few things on Ebay that will be up for auction for 10 days.

Tornado photo courtesy of the NOAA Photo Library

Oregon Cascades Myrtlewood Tatting Shuttle Number 9

Made with love on Grizzly Mountain!

Number 9 of our line of signature tatting shuttles is here! Dave designed this line EXCLUSIVELY for our Etsy shop! Dave doesn't know how many of these sequentially numbered tatting shuttles he will make, but this line will end at some point.

This 2 3/4 inch post style tatting shuttle was handcrafted from Oregon myrtlewood and has been burn etched with our Oregon Cascades Logo. This shuttle has been signed and numbered by Dave.