Renae Al-Fdeilat, Penobscot

Penawapskewi Designs
Handmade Jewelry and Adornment

Old Town, Maine 04468

penawapskewidesigns@gmail.com

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Renae Al-Fdeilat is a Penobscot beadwork artist based in Old Town, Maine. Her work draws on Indigenous material traditions with a contemporary design, emphasizing sustainability, cultural knowledge, and lived presence through beadwork as art.

Renae creates handmade beadwork jewelry and adornment, including earrings, cuffs, and wearable art utilizing traditional materials like glass beads, braintanned smoked hide, birchbark, sweetgrass, fur, and porcupine quills.  

  • Beaded earrings with a floral motif. The words "Penawapskewi Designs" are overlaid on the image.
  • Earrings laying on fur. Each is made of two circular ornaments, stacked. The bottom ornament is shell, the top is leather with small portraits painted in profile, one male and one female in traditional dress.
  • Earrings laying on fur. Each is made with a circle of birchbark behind a small, golden embellishment.
  • A leather bag with a long fringe alone the bottom edge and beadwork along the edge of the cover flap with a set of matching beaded earrings.
  • Moccasins with fur lining, made of black leather and beaded with a floral motif in white beads on the uppers.
  • Beaded earrings with a strawberry motif.
  • A set of beaded jewelry with skull and rose motifs.
  • A beaded leather cuff with matching star-shaped beaded leather earrings in a floral motif.
  • Earrings, beaded bisons on leather with long leather tassels below.
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