Making dreamcatchers from wine barrels

Just as the pandemic was starting, Craig Condron and his wife were in Walla Walla sampling wine, when they went by a hardware store selling wine barrel bands (rings). Condron decided he could make dream catchers out of the rings.

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UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 29, 2021

At left: Craig Condron attaches turkey feathers and small pieces of cut wood for the beads to the dream catchers he constructs. Traditionally hung over one’s bed, the dream catcher lets good dreams slide down the beads and feathers to the dreamer, and traps bad dreams in its web.

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Craig Condron makes dream catchers out of wine barrel bands. He got the idea while in Walla Walla for a wine tour and wandered past a hardware store selling bands.

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Craig Condron makes dream catchers using jute, string and leather strands.

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Craig Condron holds a wine barrel band in his dreamcatcher workshop.

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