Industrialized Dream Catcher

Last week I started constructing my five foot circumference metal dream catcher.  After some thought, a lot of trial and error and help from my peers I was able to construct a frame for my dream catcher.   Along the way I was photographing each step and as I went back to look through them I found it interesting to see the progression of the whole thing.  Here are some of those photos!

This first step was to construct the shape of a hoop.  As you can see I have used a grey plastic tubing (courtesy of Elizabeth Babyn) and secured it to a sheet of wood.  Once that was finished I measured how far apart my weaving would be and secured the butterfly clips accordingly. 

I needed a lot of tape!  To fit around the butterfly clips I needed to cut the duct tape in half.

Detail of the butterfly clips used.  I think this will make an interesting 'hoop' for my dream catcher.

Here you can see how I have arranged everything.  In total there are 47 butterfly clips taped to the plastic tubing.

Of course friends make tedious work way more fun! Thanks Josh Wade for helping me secure the tubing.   While constructing this I noticed that the tube would roll inwards if you gave the butterfly clips a tug (which isn't good when you need to pull the string of a dream catcher taught!).  So that meant securing every part of the hoop to ensure nothing moved.  

So much tape!!  I ended up using three different types of tape because the rolls kept running out!  Surprisingly the white tape held on way better to the wood than the duct tape.  

The next step in this whole process with be to start weaving the metal wire into the clips and attaching the metal washers aka 'beads', as the dream catcher becomes more and more complete I will continue to post more progress pictures!