Choose A Wooden Dough Bowl For Rustic Home Decorating

The wooden dough bowl is a true representation of items used in a typical Native American home. In the mountain region of Northern Mexico, the Tarahumara people have rugged lifestyles and live in humble dwellings. They make handcrafts, like wooden dough bowls, in order to earn a living. I have always appreciated the beautiful baskets, weavings, jewelry and other hand-crafted items created by this Tribe. It is fascinating that although the women are the primary crafters in the family, the Tarahumara men enjoy working with wood and create beautiful pieces of art using simple and unsophisticated tools. Like the wooden dough bowls, they also make wooden spoons, figurines and traditional game balls used in traditional foot races. These wooden handcrafts have a rustic beauty, heightened by the natural characteristics of the wood.

You will also find it intriguing how the wood dough bowls are created. The fashioning of the wooden bowl is started by hand chiseling a piece of native yellow pine taken from a fallen tree trunk. Native log bowls are made by splitting the trunk in half and then roughly chopping it with an axe. The wood is then chiseled into a bowl like shape with a machete or large knife, giving it that unique, rugged and primitive look. This classic style is the same way that all dough bowls have been fashioned throughout the mountain region for generations.

As you read about these interesting Indian people, you will learn that the wood dough bowl has an important part in the Tarahumara household. It is used in the process of hand-grinding corn and wheat to make hand-made tortillas, an essential part to the Tarahumara diet. They then start by breaking the kernels between a smooth stone and a tapered bowl-like stone called a metate. The dough bowl is used to catch the flour at one end of the metate as it is ground. Water is then mixed with the flour in the bowl and tortillas are made by hand from the mix. Although still used by the Tarahumara people for kneading dough and cooking, today dough bowls are sold to buyers for Native style home decorating and as Indian art collection pieces.

You will find a way to use dough bowls for a number of things. They are great as collectibles, fruit bowls, and when used with Native style decorating accessories. They are also great when used for art projects when a blank canvas is needed for beautiful paintings and other Native American style artwork. Dough bowls, painted with southwestern, Native American and western designs and scenes, are very unique and are a wonderful way to add western style in your home decorating. A painted dough bowl is a unique main feature for any rustic style room, cabin, lodge or ranch style home by using the natural warm colors unique to southwestern artwork.

You can buy wooden dough bowls online and in many stores that sell rustic and American Indian style home decorating items. It is easy to give genuine Native style to your home, or to give your room a makeover by including a rustic, painted dough bowl along with your decor. If you like the age-old culture and American Indian way of life, you will appreciate owning a piece of their hand-crafted artwork as part of your home decorating. To add true Native culture to your home and develop a look that is truly authentic, use a genuine native style wooden dough bowl to bring great character to your home decor.

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