Logo
  • About
    • Our Authors
    • About Spoonflower
    • Design Challenges
    • Spoonflower Gives Back
    • Spoonflower Ambassadors
    • Business ResourcesWhether you’re an artist selling designs on Spoonflower—or you’re a handmade small business owner—this digital series delivers professional advice to help you promote yourself and stand out.
  • Projects & Tutorials
        • FOR MAKERS

        • DIY Projects
        • Sewing
        • No-Sew
        • Free Sewing Patterns
        • FOR ARTISTS

        • Design Tutorials
        • Spoonflower 101
        • Artist SpotlightBehind every design is an independent artist from around the world. In this series, we introduce you to Spoonflower’s talented artist community.
  • Get Inspired
    • Wallpaper
    • Home Decor
    • Handmade Apparel
    • Sustainability
  • Our Community
    • Meet The MakersInterviews and spotlights of makers who use Spoonflower for their handmade business
    • Ambassadors
    • Design Challenges
    • Small Business HandbookThe Small Business Handbook welcomes creative entrepreneurs to share how they’ve grown their business through meaningful mission statements, successful partnerships and so much more.
    • Spoonflower Seller HandbookDo you sell your designs in the Spoonflower Marketplace or are thinking about joining our growing community of independent artists? In this series, learn how you can promote your work and stand out in a marketplace that’s growing by the minute.
Search
Custom-printed fabric, wallpaper and home decor Shop Spoonflower →
Logo

Browse popular categories

  • Adaptive Fashion
  • Artist Spotlight
  • Business Resources
  • Community
  • Creative Community Spotlight

Most recently posted

An iPhone sits on a dark red surface. Green leaves from a plant are to the bottom right. A black pen and a tray of watercolors are to the left. On the iPhone screen is the first screen of an Instagram video by Spoonflower artist Danika Herrick. In black text at the top, in a white box, it says “#1 Cypress Cotton.” In black text at the bottom, also in a white box, it says “most versatile, it’s heavy weight works for draperies, Roman shades and upholstery- has a nubby canvas texture, colors print up bright and crisp. It’s the heaviest in the group...” the rest of the text isn’t fully shown as information about the video, including the poster’s name, who has liked the post, the name of the music in the video is over the black text in white text.
  • Spoonflower Seller Handbook
How to Create Artist Video Content to Grow Your Business

By Jessie Katz Greenberg on January 17, 2023

A woman is installing wallpaper with a pink-and-white gingham design on a beige wall.
  • Wallpaper
10 Wallpaper Installation Tips from a Professional 

By Kate Schanz on January 24, 2023

  • Community
Announcing February 2023 Design Challenge Themes

By Anna Fletcher on January 6, 2023

  • Inspiration
What is Your Big Craft Goal for 2023?

By Alexa Terry Wilde on January 13, 2023

  • About
    • Our Authors
    • About Spoonflower
    • Design Challenges
    • Spoonflower Gives Back
    • Spoonflower Ambassadors
    • Business ResourcesWhether you’re an artist selling designs on Spoonflower—or you’re a handmade small business owner—this digital series delivers professional advice to help you promote yourself and stand out.
  • Projects & Tutorials
        • FOR MAKERS

        • DIY Projects
        • Sewing
        • No-Sew
        • Free Sewing Patterns
        • FOR ARTISTS

        • Design Tutorials
        • Spoonflower 101
        • Artist SpotlightBehind every design is an independent artist from around the world. In this series, we introduce you to Spoonflower’s talented artist community.
  • Get Inspired
    • Wallpaper
    • Home Decor
    • Handmade Apparel
    • Sustainability
  • Our Community
    • Meet The MakersInterviews and spotlights of makers who use Spoonflower for their handmade business
    • Ambassadors
    • Design Challenges
    • Small Business HandbookThe Small Business Handbook welcomes creative entrepreneurs to share how they’ve grown their business through meaningful mission statements, successful partnerships and so much more.
    • Spoonflower Seller HandbookDo you sell your designs in the Spoonflower Marketplace or are thinking about joining our growing community of independent artists? In this series, learn how you can promote your work and stand out in a marketplace that’s growing by the minute.

Artist Spotlight: 19 Indigenous Creatives You Should Know

  • Artist Spotlight
  • Community
  • Meet The Maker
Edited: Dec 12, 2022
2 Comments
Share
A smiling adult holds a small child while both wear beaded headpieces and enjoy each other’s company at the Alutiiq Museum in Alaska. The Alutiiq Museum or Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository is a non-profit museum and cultural center dedicated to preserving and sharing the cultural traditions of the Koniag Alutiiq branch of Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq of the Alaska Native people.
Photograph of Osamuskwasis Roan standing outside during autumn and wearing their handmade clothing: A white hat featuring a band of bright florals and a feather accessory. Osamuskwasis is also wearing oversized earrings from their online shop with the same floral patterns of the har. Finally, a silk dress in soft blue with smaller elements of pink and purple throughout.

A few months ago, Lorna “Emmy” Her Many Horses shared her Indigenous Designed Fabrics List with us on social media. The list was made with the help of Indigenous peoples all over the U.S. and Canada for all to access and includes a number of Spoonflower artists. 

Emmy uses Indigenous patterned fabrics designed by Indigenous peoples in her work and explains further, “within this curated list, are Indigenous designers whose ancestral knowledge and artistic practices influence their designs, with an understanding of what these designs mean to them and their respective tribal nations and histories. These patterns often tell the stories of nations, the lands they hail from and the artists themselves. 

When seeking out “Native American” designs, it is important for all to seek authentic Indigenous voices and designs created by Indigenous creators today and into the future, and to step away from the often appropriated designs created by those not in our communities. 

Centered here you will find Indigenous designers who not only are citizens and members of Indigenous communities, but also give back to and uplift their communities in many ways.”

Below are some of the Spoonflower artists from Emmy’s list, starting with Emmy herself.

Emmy Her Many Horses portrait

Lorna "Emmy" Her Many Horses

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thesicangusewist
Instagram: @ehermanyhorses

Read artist bio

Emmy Her Many Horses, a citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is an educator, musician, sewist and creator. Raised in a large family on the Rosebud Reservation, she watched and learned from her parents who uplifted Indigenous creatives and tirelessly served the community.

This led to her following a career in service as an educator, while utilizing her artistic creativity through her small business, The Sicangu Sewist. Growing up, Emmy saw so many Indigenous-inspired patterns created by non-Indigenous people.

These were sold without uplifting the communities that brought them to the world, by people who often didn’t understand the significance of the designs within Indigenous communities.

As a rule, Emmy’s creations utilize Indigenous patterned fabrics designed by Indigenous peoples that give back to Indigenous peoples, communities, and businesses, bringing forward what she always wants the chance to purchase from other creators.

A group of handmade book sleeves created by Lorna "Emmy" Her Many Horses in a range of colors featuring some designs by the Indigenous artists featured in this blog post. Select styles are available on Emmy’s Etsy shop, The Sičángu Sewist.

A group of handmade book sleeves created by Emmy in a range of colors featuring some designs by the Indigenous artists featured in this blog post. Select styles are available on Emmy’s Etsy shop, The Sičángu Sewist.

Alt text: A medium-sized handmade book sleeve created by Lorna "Emmy" Her Many Horses out of a fabric that features playful grey seals (or sea lions) and small plant-like shapes in an aqua color. Available on Emmy’s Etsy shop, The Sičángu Sewist for USD$22.

A medium-sized handmade book sleeve created by Emmy available on Emmy’s Etsy shop, The Sičángu Sewist.

Greg Biskakone Johnson portrait

Greg Biskakone Johnson

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/biskakone
Instagram: @biskakonej
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/biskakone

Read artist bio

Greg Johnson is a cultural practitioner and art educator in the Anishinaabe tradition. He works with youth and others to teach the skills and knowledge of his culture.

He has been making traditional baskets for 15 years and also creates detailed beadwork and moccasin sewing as well as fabric designing.

He is an Ojibwe language teacher and stays busy hunting, fishing and raising four kids.

An Ojibwe floral design with three small red birds on a black background designed to print at two yards for a skirt and moccasin set. The bottom third of the design is a solid black background with a U-shaped floral design with red, yellow and blue flowers growing out of green stems to be made into a skirt. There are two small birds on the flowers on the left and one small bird on the flowers on the right. At the top of the fabric for the moccasins are two small bands, also with a black background. They each have a small red bird and a strip of blue, orange and red flowers. Two smaller rounded triangles of fabric are underneath the strips, they have a black background and small red and orange flowers on them.

KweSkirtSet*

*To make the full Kwe Skirt set, Greg recommends ordering 2 yards.

Four Ojibwe winter moccasin sets laid out on fabric. They all have a black background. The pair on the left has orange flowers, the pair in the center has blue flowers and the pair on the right has bright purple flowers. Across the bottom, the pair has green flowers.

LdF_Mocs

An Ojibwe clothing set laid out on fabric that includes a vest, tobacco bag, moccasins, Breach cloth and armbands. The floral design has a black background with red, orange and blue flowers growing from green stems with green leaves. There are also small red birds with blue wings and small blue birds with red wings.

OjibweClothing*

*To make the full Ojibwe Clothing set, Greg recommends ordering 2 yards.

Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich portrait

Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/10buffalosart
Website: https://www.10buffalos.com
Instagram: @10buffalosartwrk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/10BuffalosArt

Read artist bio

Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich is an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho in Wyoming and has produced art in various mediums since the 90s.

Her contemporary style reflects her plains heritage, her mother’s Chippewa/Metis ancestry, along with a Pacific Northwest Coastal influence from the Puget Sound area of Washington where she grew up.

Shana is a registered member of the Department of the Interior Source Directory for Native American Artists. As a community service, 10buffalos.com continues to provide free masks for adults and children throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

A repeating illustration of a square that is turquoise on the top right half, fading into green halfway to the bottom right corner. The square features a woman dancing with her arms perpendicular to her shoulders holding a dark brown shawl with cream-and-green fringe. Her left leg is bent, with her left foot pointing toward her right knee. Design is based on an original art piece painted by Shana and modeled after Shana’s granddaughter who does Fancy Shawl and Ballet.

Fancy Is Our Ballet

A small-scale repeating pattern by Shana Yellow Calf Lukinich of 10buffalosart in vibrant purple, blue, green and yellow colors that depicts a figure whose outstretched arms are facing towards the sun in a natural area filled with trees, earth and water. Design is based on Shana's original acrylic painting and is modeled after the artist’s mother who is Meti.

Pray for Us Mother Earth

Design features a ballet dancing figure on a pink background which is based on an original acrylic painting by the artist (modeled after Shana’s granddaughter who does ballet). The piece is called All Nations Dance and shows Pacific Northwest Coastal on the skirt, the body part is based off Metis and the fan with feather is based off Plains as well as the jingles on the arms.

All Nations Final

Don D Basina portrait

Don D Basina

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/dd_baz
Instagram: @DDBaz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Don.Basina

Read artist bio

Don D Basina is an enrolled member of the Red Cliff Ojibwe Tribe located in Northern Wisconsin.

DDBaz Designs reflect Health & Wellness, Indigenous, Native gaming and the Creator’s Game of Lacrosse.

Photograph portrait of Don D Basina smiling and crouched down in the grass on a sunny day in front of a pair of lacrosse sticks that inspired some dd_baz designs.

Don D Basina in front of a pair of lacrosse sticks that inspired some dd_baz designs.

Don’s design entitled ‘Crossed Lacrosse Sticks’ is presented on bed sheets in this photo, but can be purchased on any fabric, wallpaper or other home decor item. Design features lacrosse equipment line drawing in black, grey and yellow on a white background in a simple repeating pattern.

Don D Basina’s design entitled Crossed Lacrosse Sticks.

Hillary Kempenich portrait

Hillary Kempenich

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/hillarykempenich
Website: http://www.hillarykempenich.com
Instagram: @zazegaadesigns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HillaryKempenich

Read artist bio

Multidisciplinary artist Hillary Kempenich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and currently resides in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Kempenich is an established studio artist and advocate for the arts, education, social justice, and Indigenous issues.

Hillary Kempenich is fluent in many mediums with a collaborative style influenced by her independent spirit as a creative woman and her deep connection to her cultural heritage.

“In Anishinaabemowin, there is no word for art; our daily lives are part of the creative process. I am a storyteller; my creations tell stories from personal experiences, identity, historical knowledge, and observations. As we work to decolonize the spaces that we are part of, it is imperative that we self-actualize.

My work intertwines my traditional customs into modern sensibilities. My work is inspired also by the teachings given to me by foraging, gardening, and self-sustainability—I believe one of the most radical ideas of bringing balance is through the act of connecting with Aki, the earth.”

– Hillary Kempenich

A star quilt fabric design that Hillary Kempenich says was inspired by reflecting upon first elders who brought youth in to pass traditions on. Kempenich's late aunt would take the artist to sewing circles in Turtle Mountain, which was the artist's first experience of working with textiles. During the sewing circles, the artist would watch her Great Aunt Theresa make elaborate and beautiful star quilts. Due to limited access to fabrics, the artist would often use markers and fabric crayons to make designs. Eventually she would try her hand at needle point, beadwork and quillwork.

Theresa’s Morning Star Purples – Large Star

Ode'imin is the Anishinaabe word for strawberry, which translates to good-hearted. Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe artist Hillary Kempenich is especially fond of strawberries and she continues to cultivate berries as part of gardening which she shares with friends, family and her community. This design also features dragonflies which are thought of to be protectors and messengers; and are often found in gardens amongst the berries.

Ode’imin and Dragonflies – Golden Yellow

This design featured dresses encased in star-shapes on a red background and was created, artist Hillary Kempenich says, to honor our Stolen Sisters, also known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous womxn. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, as well as all Indigenous Relatives, is a huge epidemic that has plagued our communities and homes not for just decades, but centuries. It is through conversation and empowerment, we are doing what is needed to not only address the failed systems, but working to actively make changes. This fabric is intended to be used to continue to honor our lost loved ones.

Into the Stars (Horizontal)

Alutiiq Museum Archeological Repository logo

April G.L. Counceller, Alutiiq Museum

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/alutiiqmuseum
Instagram: @alutiiqmuseum
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlutiiqMuseum

Read artist bio

The designs in our Spoonflower shop are designed by an Alutiiq tribal member and fund educational programs of our non-profit Native-run and governed culture center.

All designs have a basis in Alutiiq material culture, such as petroglyphs, pictographs and cultural objects from the Alutiiq region.

A smiling adult holds a small child while both wear beaded headpieces and enjoy each other’s company at the Alutiiq Museum in Alaska. The Alutiiq Museum or Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository is a non-profit museum and cultural center dedicated to preserving and sharing the cultural traditions of the Koniag Alutiiq branch of Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq of the Alaska Native people.

An adult and child wear beaded headpieces at the Alutiiq Museum.

A repeating image on a teal background with two layers of seal mothers with young pups. The top layer has a black seal mother and a light gray pup. The mothers are facing to the right and the pups are facing left and right in alternating columns.In the second layer both seal mother and pup are dark gray. The mothers are facing left and the seal pups are facing left and right in alternating columns.

Sea Lion Mamas (Teal) – Large

Jessica Moore Harjo portrait

Jessica Moore Harjo, Ph.D.

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/weomepedesigns
Website: https://www.weomepedesigns.com
Instagram: @weomepe
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeOmePe

Read artist bio

Jessica Moore Harjo, Ph.D., weomepe, is an artist, designer and educator based in Oklahoma. Jessica’s approach to art and design is unique, post-traditional and grounded in cultural symbolism. Her pieces display intersections of traditional ribbon work, florals, appliqué, elements of nature and other harmonious and symmetrical forms with atmospheric color palettes.

Jessica has current displays of art at Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Oklahoma City’s Automobile Door Tour Alley, Tulsa Art Alley, the Osage Nation Museum and Osage Nation Casino. She is a contributing artist for the Oklahoma City’s First Americans Museum Origins Theatre with digital design contributions to the Otoe-Missouria origins story.

Upcoming work includes a public art installation at the Oklahoma State Capitol, a public art mural with Iowa Department of Transportation and she is one of the four selected artists for the Sites of Conscience Public Art project in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A close up of a ribbon skirt with Jessica's Floral Sunset Gold/Royal design and royal blue ribbons in alternating horizontal stripes. This design has an orange base with small-scale graphic icons in royal blue. The pattern creates vertical lines across the width of the fabric by the way the elements of design are positioned.

Ribbon skirt with Jessica Moore Harjo’s Floral Sunset Gold/Royal pattern.

A model wears a jumpsuit with Jessica’s Floral Sunset Gold/Royal design and a white black belt. This design has an orange base with small-scale graphic icons in royal blue. The pattern creates vertical lines across the width of the fabric by the way the elements of design are positioned.

The design on the jumpsuit is Jessica Moore Harjo’s Floral Sunset Gold/Royal pattern.

Holly Young portrait

Holly Young

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/inyansmomma
Website: https://hyoung.artspan.com/carousel.php
Instagram: @holly_young_artist
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Holly-Young

Read artist bio

I was raised by my grandmother in a rural area of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. We lived in a small house, seven miles from town on a few acres of land. Today, I understand how being so close to the land in my childhood has influenced my art; the memories of plants and flowers, our relationship with the land and the healing properties that come from those.

Just like the natural world is intertwined with life cycles and relationships dependent on survival, so is my art. I lean on my community and our traditions to inspire me. I am unable to flourish as an artist without them. The natural world has the power to regenerate itself, just like our communities. And as artists, we have the power to regenerate our traditions.

I have a passion for traditional Dakota floral styles and designs and have been committed to preserving and sharing these art forms and lifeways. Through art, I affirm myself as a Dakota woman and mother by practicing Winyan Omniciye, the circle of sharing knowledge—what you learn, you give back.

As a Dakota artist, my work embodies the love, patience, resiliency and beauty of my ancestors’ legacies and the land that has provided since time immemorial. I use the traditional styles of Dakota beadwork, quillwork and ledger art to be a seed from which my vision grows.

Photograph of a pair of beaded gauntlets handmade by Holly Young. The beaded pattern features an intricate composition of yellow and blue birds standing on an abstract vine of vegetation. The fingers of the gloves hold diamond shaped beadwork. These white gauntlets also feature a fringe.

A pair of beaded gauntlets handmade by Holly Young.

Detailed photograph showing intricacies of Holly Young’s beadwork. This pattern showcases fine details on bees, lady bugs, a spider, birds and florals—all in a traditional symmetrical layout.

Intricate beadwork by Holly Young.

Jessica Hernandez portrait

Jessica Hernandez

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/niciasaccessories
Instagram: @niciasaccessories
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NiciasJewelryAndAccessories

Read artist bio

My name is Jessica Hernandez. I am Kanienkeha and a member of the bear clan. I live in Kahnawake, QC, where I have a small shop that sells bead and craft supplies, as well as offer classes, bead challenges and a safe and healthy space to create.

A few years ago I started to dabble in creating different indigenous designs, using Iroquois-style beadwork and shapes. I think it’s important for indigenous people to have healthy outlets and creative activities that will connect them back to who they are.

I also think it’s important for indigenous designs to be created by indigenous artists and designers.

This design features alternating white ferns and blue and green bears hand drawn in a geometric style repeating over a black background. Each row of ferns and bears alternate direction horizontally.

Cedar and Bear

A scattered collage print of various beadwork pieces: florals, birds and circles. Each of these elements is made of gold, red, burgundy, greens and beige beads on a flat black background.

Raised Beadwork – Birds and Earrings

An earth-toned mauve background with black bears and decorative patterns in a horizontal orientation. This small-scale print would work well for clothing, scarves or smaller applications.

Bear Skydome

William Brien portrait

Bill Brien

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/star_gifts_llc
Website: https://bountifulreis.com
Instagram: @bountifulreis
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bountifulreis2017

Read artist bio

Bill Brien is a Lakota, Dakota, Chippewa, Metis artist. Brien is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota. Brien is also from the Spirit Lake Nation also in North Dakota. A self-taught artist, Brien calls himself a “digital cell phone artist.” His chosen medium is digital art, using his cell phone as his canvas to create all his work.

Brien’s art has been displayed around various North Dakota art galleries: Bismarck Art & Galleries Association (Bismarck), Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative (Bismarck), Gallery 4 (Fargo) and the Red Door Art Gallery (Wahpeton).

Brien participated in the 2020 Online Heard Museum Indian Art Market.

In 2016, Brien found his love and passion for art because of his wife, Geri, Lakota from Cheyenne River. Geri was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. In early 2015 Geri was cancer free but by the end of 2015 the cancer had returned and spread.

The highlight of Brien’s art career is being recognized by the Bismarck Cancer Center at its annual Hope Giver’s Extraordinaire Banquet. Brien was recognized for donations made to the Bismarck Cancer Center from art sales in honor of his late wife, Geri. Geri made her Heavenly journey May 1, 2018, after a four year battle with breast cancer.

Yearly, Brien donates a portion of his art proceeds to the Bismarck Cancer Center in honor of his wife, Geri.

A photograph of Bill Brien wearing a ball cap and smiling while holding one of his paintings based off his Berries, Bee’s and Beauty design. The painting depicts a colorful canvas of yellow, blue and purple flowers, small strawberries and other natural elements in a symmetrical layout over a black background.

Bill Brien holding one of his paintings based off of his Berries, Bee’s, & Beauty design.

A photograph of Bill Brien’s first place winning canvas art that depicts an indigenous couple standing together while embracing their small baby who is wrapped snuggly in their arms. The illustration’s colors are bright pastels and feature large florals against a beige background found often in ledger art drawings.

Bill Brien’s first place winning canvas art.

Rachel Dennis portrait small

Rachel Mae Dennis-Butzin

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/mylittlenative
Instagram: @mylittlenative
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RachelMaeDennisButzin

Read artist bio

Rachel Mae Dennis-Butzin is an indigenous artist whose work is a reflection of her diverse heritage as well as her love of the environment, comic books and pop culture. Rachel is a graduate of Michigan State University and currently resides in South Dakota with her family where she is an art teacher at a Native American School.

Rachel’s illustrations can be seen in children’s books and on clothing. She has collaborated with several musicians on animations for music videos and created logo designs for several companies.

This woodlands floral loomwork design features a bold pattern in red and gold on white background. The main pattern of the loomwork is positioned vertically and would work well for clothing and home decor.

Woodlands Loomwork

Design by My Little Native featuring two cute beavers holding sticks in the shape of a heart in their mouths. The beavers are outlined in black and have dark and brown fur. The background depicts an abstract water environment.

Beaver Love

Ojibwe floral with elk teeth design by My Little Native. The blue and pink flowers are arranged in circular patterns in between vertical strips of the elk teeth. This small-scale design is on a mauve background color.

Floral and Elk Teeth

Osamuskwasis Roan portrait

Osamuskwasis Roan

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/osamuskwasis
Website: https://osamuskwasis.com
Instagram: @osamuskwasis
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/osamuskwasis

Read artist bio

Tansi my name is Osamuskwasis Roan. I am Nehiyaw and Tsuu T’ina and am from Pigeon Lake Alberta, Canada.

I am an indigenous language student at Yellow Head Tribal College and am also a designer/beadwork artist. I have been sewing since the age of 9 and beading since the age of 12.

Custom-made skirt, shirt and scarf by Osamuskwasis. Fabric features elements of the artist’s Nehiyaw and Tsuu T’ina background. Brilliantly colored florals, buffalo and leaves decorate the silk clothing.

Custom-made skirt, shirt and scarf by Osamuskwasis Roan. Fabric features elements of the artist’s Nehiyaw and Tsuu T’ina background.

Photograph of Osamuskwasis Roan standing outside during autumn and wearing their handmade clothing: A white hat featuring a band of bright florals and a feather accessory. Osamuskwasis is also wearing oversized earrings from their online shop with the same floral patterns of the har. Finally, a silk dress in soft blue with smaller elements of pink and purple throughout.

Osamuskwasis Roan wearing items from the artist’s fall 2021 collection.

Rebecca Wilbur portrait

Rebecca Wilbur

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/tundraflowerdesigns
Instagram: @tundra.flower.designs.llc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tundra-Flower-Designs-102755042087812

Read artist bio

The inspiration behind my art is the strong relationship that we, the Yup’ik Eskimo people, have with the tundra. The flowers, the berries, the tools, symbols and clothing that identify our culture—these designs are created for representation.

I wanted other artists to feel a connection with the materials they use while creating, and to invoke emotion in those who wear the pieces.

A repeating design with blueberries and salmonberries coming out of a pair of white fur boots on a dark blue background. There are small white flowers and clusters of blueberries surrounding the berries and boots. 

Berries with Grandma

A repeating design of black uluaqs on a white background. The uluaqs have a small flower design on both the handle and the knife.

Tundra Flower Uluaq/Ulu

A repeating design of rows of large orange salmonberries with green leaves. There are rows of smaller salmonberries in between the rows of larger ones.

Salmonberries

Cole Redhorse Jacobson portrait

Cole Redhorse Jacobson

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coleredhorsejacobson
Instagram: @coleredhorsejacobson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coleredhorsejacobsonart

Read artist bio

I am Mdewakanton Dakota and enrolled with the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota, the homelands of my people. I am a multi-disciplinary artist, focusing more on the traditional arts associated with the Dakota people.

In the midst of the pandemic, I made the transition to work towards designing fabric with the idea that other native people could adorn themselves using fabric designed by a native artist using traditional Dakota floral design elements.

A portrait of Cole Redhorse Jacobson in traditional Dakota clothing and jewelry. Cole stands against a red backdrop looking into the camera, proud to share their heritage with their community.

Cole Redhorse Jacobson in traditional Dakota clothing and jewelry.

Cole Redhorse Johnson's Dakota Calico design is displayed in four colors, lemon, lavender, maroon and forest green. This repeating design features dragonflies with white wings and green bodies. Small clusters of lavender, blue and maroon flowers growing on green stems with green leaves surround the dragonflies.

Cole Redhorse Jacobson’s Dakota Calico print in lemon, lavender, maroon and forest green.

Tessa Sayers portrait

Tessa Sayers

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/soul_curiosity
Instagram: @soulcuriosity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mysoulcuriosity

Read artist bio

Tessa Sayers grew up in Washington State on a small llama farm. She is a certified Native artist with her tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota. Her indigenous family encompasses three tribal communities, Metis (Manitoba), Chippewa and Cree.

In 2017, she started a holistic brand, Soul Curiosity, translating her personal healing journey through art, using a variety of mediums to tell stories, empowering others to cultivate self-love, embrace vulnerability, heal inner wounds and live courageously through the teachings of the Native American medicine wheel.

Thick horizontal bands stripe through a gray background. The bands have a dark brown center, light brown on either side of the dark brown center and black outer edges. Dark brown, light brown, dark gray, light gray and black stars, of varying sizes repeat through the horizontal bands.

AirFabricBlackRepeat

A repeating design in black on a cream background. Large flowers center the design, with four strawberries encircling them on vines. Smaller flowers are dotted between the strawberries.

Wedding Collection Light

Woodland/Coastal floral Ojibwe, Cree, Metis print design with rows and columns of repeating flowers in white outline on a black background. The flowers are delicate, almost scroll like, extending both up and across the design.

My Calling is Culture (Black)

George Curtis Levi portrait

George Curtis Levi

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/southern_cheyenne_art
Website: https://glevi.artspan.com/carousel.php
Instagram: @georgecurtislevi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/george.c.levi

Read artist bio

George Curtis Levi is a member of the Southern Cheyenne Tribe and is also part Arapaho and Oglala. Influenced by the art and history of the Cheyenne People, George centers his artistic specialty around the Cheyenne Ledger Art, though he engages in other styles as well.

He is happily married with children.

Original artwork by George Curtis Levi entitled ‘Old Friends’. The drawing shows 4 indigenous figures facing one another and is based on traditional Cheyenne Ledger Art.

Original artwork by George Curtis Levi entitled “Old Friends.” The drawing is based on traditional Cheyenne Ledger Art.

Original artwork by George Curtis Levi entitled ‘Knowledge Keeper’. The drawing depicts a figure addressing a group of people in their community. Everyone is wearing bright clothing in yellow, blue, red, green and pink.

Original artwork by George Curtis Levi entitled “Knowledge Keeper.”

Marlena Myles portrait

Marlena Myles

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/mylesdesigns
Instagram: @mylesdesigns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mylesdesigns

Read artist bio

Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota) is a self-taught artist located in St Paul, Minnesota.

Her multifaceted portfolio includes fabric patterns, animations, children’s books, public art, augmented reality and illustrations to bring modernity to Indigenous history, languages and oral traditions.

A design that combines Dakota traditional art with argyle designs. Rows of large white diamonds go throughout the width and height of the design on a white background. A row of small dark blue and light blue diamonds and a row of small white diamonds go through the larger white diamons alternately. Small red flowers go down the middle of each large white diamond. The small red flowers also branch out a bit at the tops and bottoms of the large white diamonds.

Dakota Argyle – Pattern 2

An Art Deco-inspired design with Dakota motifs. Circles and half moons repeat in this design with pink flowers and cream, orange and burgundy accents and smaller flowers, all connected by delicate black lines.

Dakota Nouveau 1c

Small yellow and purple horses run through a light turquoise background with large delicate flowers emerging from dark purple starks growing through the design. The flowers are a mix of green and yellow and pink and red and lavender.

Dakota Prairies: Wild Horses 1b

Malerie Gundersen portrait

Malerie Gundersen

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/malberrymade
Instagram: @malberrymade

Read artist bio

Hi! I’m Malerie, an Alaska Native Unangax mother and artist. I was born and raised on the island of Sand Point, on the Aleutian Chain. I live for our summers!

I love being on the ocean, walking our beaches, eating all the berries and getting my hands full of scales! Creating art (in all forms) is my passion!

Malorie’s Alaska Treasures design is shown on a Spoonflower wall hanging. This teal and mint colored design features glass balls, sand dollars, mossberries and salmonberries from her native Alaskan environment.

Malerie Gundersen’s Alaska Treasures design shown on a Spoonflower wall hanging.

Malerie standing on a boat in Alaska with her family member. They are both smiling despite the cloudy and rainy day. Beautiful mountains can be seen behind them.

Malerie Gundersen on a boat in Alaska with a family member.

Kimberly Lollis-McCauley portrait

Kimberly Lollis-McCauley

Spoonflower shop: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/galonedi_designs
Instagram: @kimberly.lollis.mccauley
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KDGalonedi

Read artist bio

Kimberly (Cherokee) was raised deep in rural Oklahoma. She is an eclectic multi-media artist, mother, veteran and advocate for sustainability. She holds degrees in Business, Electronic Systems and Leadership.

Her diversity of life experiences has a dynamic and encompassing impact on her work.

A drawing of the heads of bison in black and in varying sizes. One bison head is quite large and is outlined in yellow and orange too.

Bison Head B&W

Playing cards are scattered around a black background. The designs on the cards are inspired by tintype portraits from the 1920s around Osage County, Oklahoma. Some cards have people on them, some cards have red pointed triangles, some cards have a hand drawn in black held to the viewer palm up, some cards have black triangles with blunted tops.

Wahzhazhe Playing Cards  – Black

A cross section of a white lotus root repeats across a red, peach and lavender background. The root repeats in several different sizes in a square shape giving the design a kaleidoscopic feel.

American Lotus Root – Red

Want to see more designs from artists on this list?

Take me to the collection
Emmy Her Many Horses portrait

Lorna "Emmy" Her Many Horses

Emmy Her Many Horses, a citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is an educator, musician, sewist and creator.

Related Posts

Spoonflower Artist Judy Quintero stands at her long workspace while painting with watercolors. Books with inspiration of algae and flowers are open in the foreground. Behind her is shelving with decor, watercolor and art supplies and a printer scanner
  • Community
  • Inspiration
How New Artists Can Succeed on Spoonflower
By Judy Quintero on November 24, 2021
A woman is installing wallpaper with a pink-and-white gingham design on a beige wall.
  • Community
  • Inspiration
  • Wallpaper
10 Wallpaper Installation Tips from a Professional 
By Kate Schanz on November 24, 2021

2 comments

An iPhone sits on a dark red surface. Green leaves from a plant are to the bottom right. A black pen and a tray of watercolors are to the left. On the iPhone screen is the first screen of an Instagram video by Spoonflower artist Danika Herrick. In black text at the top, in a white box, it says “#1 Cypress Cotton.” In black text at the bottom, also in a white box, it says “most versatile, it’s heavy weight works for draperies, Roman shades and upholstery- has a nubby canvas texture, colors print up bright and crisp. It’s the heaviest in the group...” the rest of the text isn’t fully shown as information about the video, including the poster’s name, who has liked the post, the name of the music in the video is over the black text in white text.
  • Community
  • Spoonflower Seller Handbook
How to Create Artist Video Content to Grow Your Business
By Jessie Katz Greenberg on November 24, 2021
2 comments

Cancel Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Just beautiful fabric designs by Indian people. It is wonderful that Spoonflower can showcase these works of art for individuals to purchase and create.

    Amy Tiger | January 31, 2022 at 9:23 pm
    Reply
  • I loved reading the artists’ bios and seeing some of their inspirations and other work. The beadwork is especially amazing!

    Francesca Werenko | November 25, 2021 at 9:40 am
    Reply
Shop Spoonflower
  • Shop Fabric
  • Shop Wallpaper
  • Shop Living & Decor
  • Shop Dining
  • Shop Bedding
Design & Sell
  • Upload Your design
  • Design Tools
  • Designing FAQs
  • Selling & Comissions
  • Seller FAQs
More
  • Help Center
  • About Us
  • Press
  • Jobs
  • Privacy
Stay Updated
© 2022 Spoonflower Inc | Site by Reaction.

We use cookies to enable and enhance your site experience. By continuing to use this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Accept Learn More