Berries Ribbon Skirt by Nichole Forbes

Light blue berry ribbon skirt with 4 stacked 1" and 1.5" satin ribbons, sewn with a zig zag stitch. Sized XL-3X (36"- 52" waistband) with pockets. Inner seams are finished with pinking shears and a straight stitch, with one Métis sash tab detail on one side of the hem. This skirt uses Tree of Life fabric by Donna The Strange (Saulteaux Ojibway, Fishing lake First Nation).

This skirt measures 34" in length. Hand wash in cold water and let air dry.

Nichole Forbes is a Red River Métis woman born and raised in Winnipeg, surrounded by her large extended family. Her people are the Gladus from St. Francois Xavier, the Morissettes from St. Eustache and the Kirtons from Baie St. Paul. Nichole is a beader and sewist and often works alongside her daughter, Meg, to teach traditional Métis beading and fingerweaving in community.

Nichole grew up sewing alongside her grandmother and learned Métis beadwork later in life. She sews, beads and creates as a practice of prayer and meditation. The pieces she creates are made as an expression of gratitude to those who have mentored her and as an act of reclamation of culture, voice and presence of Indigenous women in this place and time in history.