FRAME DRUMS and RATTLES
4 drums made from a single elk hide, 2021
I’ve been making frame drums and rattles for 5 years now. All of my handmade drums and rattles are lovingly built from local recourses in Washington state. I put healing intensions into all of them because my vision for them is that they will be used as drums have been used for thousands of years: as healing tools for shamanic journeying and to aid in story telling and dance.
Each drum is unique in look and feel as it was made with "living" materials which respond to the changing environment around it. Every drum has a soft suede handle and comes with a handmade beater.
The rattles are hand-stitched rawhide with natural wood handles found in the woods around my home.
I only make them in small batches of three or four and they tend to sell quickly. Please message me if you would like to reserve one. Custom orders are also possible. Choose from 16 or 18 inch sizes. Elk or buffalo hide.
More about the Drum:
The sound that any of us heard for the first nine months of our lives was a beat in steady rhythm: the sound of our mother's heart. It is this rhythm that drove the beat of our own heart as we emerged into the world, and if we can walk through our lives with love we will be in time with the heartbeat of the Universe. The drum is a tool and a reminder that helps us find and stay connected to this rhythm.
The drum is believed to have existed in some form at least 30 thousand years ago, if not longer. Eventually it was used in every culture as a tool of healing, journeying, theatrical story telling and music. This ancient instrument of healing is needed now more than ever to be shared and used by people of all cultures and religions. Regardless of a persons heritage, the drum wants to be used to help the human spirit reconnect to the heartbeat of the Earth.
PAINTED DRUMS GALLERY
Below are a few of the drums I have painted and sold in the past few years. These aren’t available anymore but you can commission a drum of your own, or ask me to paint something like what you see below. You can also have a look at my drum store to see what is currently available. I’m making new ones all the time.
