Dance Shawl Navy with Silver Fringe

Mini Dance Shawl in Navy Blue Fabric with Silver Fringe

This mini Dance Shawl Navy with Silver Fringe is ready for your next event!  The seamstress made it with Navy Blue gabardine fabric.  She added Silver chainette fringe to three sides of it.  It is a smaller shawl, measuring 55″ long x 27″ wide.  Perfect to drape over your arm or to wrap around yourself.  One of a Kind!

Most women wear Dance Shawls into the Powwow Circle. Dance Shawls can be simple fabric blanks with chainette or ribbon fringe.  Some women create elaborately decorated shawls for Fancy Dancing.  They embellish their shawls with ribbonwork, embroidery or beadwork.

The Shawl Dance was created for women.  Unlike the historical dances for women, the Shawl Dance gave women a chance to wear more colorful, elaborate clothing.  Over the following decades, Fancy Shawls became more elaborate and the Dance became more energetic and athletic.  Today Fancy Shawl Dancers resemble butterflies with their bright outstretched ‘wings’ as they twirl and leap around the dance circle.  The Fancy Shawl Dance originated during the modern Pan-Indian time.   Powwow participants consider it an Inter-Tribal Dance, not associated with any individual Native American tradition.

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