Beautiful bags are a wonderful traditional way to keep your sacred objects safe. Made from buckskin and decorated in beadwork, the bags Nicholas makes are based on Native American and Siberian originals. 

PERSONAL MEDICINE BAGS

These are buckskin drawstring bags designed to hold small personal items and are often work around the neck or tied onto clothes. They have a strip of lazy stitch beadwork which runs around them and a plied buckskin cord which closes the bag and acts as a strap.

Bag width approx. 4 cm. Height approx. 8 cm. £35.50

RATTLE BAGS

A buckskin bag designed to hold a rawhide rattle or other medicine item. They are based on Native American Paint bags and have an area of beadwork at the bottom of of the bag and beadwork strip up one side (covering the seam in the buckskin). These bags have a simple buckskin drawstring to close them.

Bag width approx 12 cm. Height approx 22 cm (not including tassels).

Available as a bag with minimal beading (left) (£115) or regular (centre and right) beaded one side (£175) or both sides (£225).

TOBACCO BAGS

A larger, squarer, buckskin bag with a flap to close it. They are ideal for keeping small bags of herbs or other items in. They are available with minimal beadwork (£225) or fully beaded on the front only (£375) or beaded on the front and the back (£695).

Bag width approx 14 cm. Height approx 20cm (not including tassels).

POSSIBLE BAGS

A large buckskin bag suitable for holding several medicine items with a flap to close them.

Available beaded in strips (above) (£345 front only - £595 both sides) or fully beaded (below) (£1300 front only or £2,400 both sides)

This pair of fully bags above were not made by Nicholas, they are pictured as an example only).

Bag width approx 28 cm. Height approx 20 cm

PIPE BAGS

Very beautiful, beaded buckskin bags designed to hold the sacred pipe safe within their depths. With long tassels that hang below and a beaded panel at the bottom of the bag and strip of beadwork up one side (covering the seam in the buckskin). Available with minimal beadwork (£295 front only) or fully beaded £695 front only or £1200 front and back).

Bag width approx 17 cm. Height approx 45 cm (not including tassels) or by negotiation to fit your pipe.