About MississippiRiverAdventures.com's Member Riverwood Studio

A unique fiber arts shop and studio; supplies, gifts and classes in weaving and spinning, ethnic arts and crafts, knitting, embellishing and more.

Pictures tell the Story!

The Above picture is of button from the Civil War  (GAR).  Before plastic was invented the Mississippi River was large in clamming.  Button factories would use the clam shells to stamp out buttons. See example in lower right.  The owner is Karen Alexander, moved to Lansing in 1993, right after the Great Flood of 1993.  Karen has been doing theses crafts since the early 70"s.  She also sent her daughter to the Waldorf School of Art's & Crafts.