Trailblazing Beads

Trailblazing Beads is the only store in Baawaating/ Sault Ste. Marie dedicated to offering Indigenous arts and crafts supplies along with genuine, Indigenous-made products at competitive pricing. We offer monthly and weekly sales and have a wide selection of beads, pony beads, needles, threads and hair pipe bone beads. We also take specialty orders for bead work.

Healing Through Beading

Trailblazing Beads was founded by Eva Dabutch and was inspired by her mother who owned a business called Trailblazing Women with four other friends from Mississauga First Nation in Ontario. As a young girl, Eva would travel with them around the North Shore helping at powwows and festivals selling arts, crafts and beadworks for regalias. Eva has been immersed in her Indigenous culture from a young age and it has influenced her way of life today.

Eva, through Trailblazing Beads, is committed to encouraging people to participate in the Indigenous culture through arts and crafts and traditional beadwork. Arts and crafts can provide healing and wellness opportunities for those wishing to reconnect (decolonize) with or get exposure to Indigenous culture. Trailblazing Beads has entered the market as a business with a social mission to empower and encourage participation in traditional Indigenous culture through beading, arts and crafts.