Beaded vest

[Noz]

The Osage used to take strips of neck sinew, chew it to seperate the fibers and then use the individual fibers to sew. If you pounded or in some way seperated the strands first your method would work. 
Are you aware that the arrows with the sinew wrap on the bradhead are also considered to be a poisoned arrow. The foreign protein left in the wound caused fatal infections.
Some friends and I got into the sinew work while attempting to make backed bows. We decided that you really had to want one bad. High level of labor intensity.

[Grizzle Bear]

High level of labor intensity.

True of most primative crafts.

Grizzle Bear

[Guage Rod]

Ben a while since I posted, seems summers find me busy with keeping the old homestead from falling down around our ears.  Couple of comments on tanning hides and bead work.

This may be better posted else where, but hear are a couple of ideas on bead work:

First, Turn off the Idiot Box and your winter evenings which are mostly spent daydreaming about the summers are available to you to do the hours it takes to do the work.  I made a double breasted tunic last winter (5 hides needed) I have about 120 hours in it since I tanned, broke and sewed the hides in to the garment my self.

Second: go with applide bead work sewn on to small pieces of leather or other PC fabric that will match your hides.  It saves a lot of extra holes in the garment and allows practice and mistakes to be made.  The beads are cheep.

Third, brain tanning may be PC but there are a lot of better forms of tanning that look  and work just as well.  Brain tanning is realy a form of preserving leather, it does not truely tan, if you get the brain tanned hides wet and they are not smoked they will become brittle and will need to be streched and broken again.  If you want to smoke the hides after brain tanning them you will need to get some realy punky old rotten wood and make a frame like a small TP to lay the hides around your fire (Smoke pot)  It does not take long to get a wonderful golden tan hide that will be somewhat water resistant. 

If money is no object by all means have it made.  I can not make a pistol or rifle, but I can sure do the leather work, even if I want to shorten the process and buy the hides.  If you want to do some research and learn something and have the pride of accomplishment