Category: Artists

  • Some more blog links

    I’ve found and added some more to this blogroll (inroads are being made into Spanish beading blogs!): Quimeras de Náyades Unicorniopasión Galeandra Poupounesperle Quienlodira

  • Lovely right angle weave

    I was reading the current newsletter from My Lovely Beads, a bead store in Alexandria, Virginia. Check out the Geometric Bracelets gallery towards the bottom of the page. There’s some great right angle weave, nice sculptural shapes by Galina Kolmogorova. See how she’s used memory wire to give at least some of them shape? I’m…

  • Brilliante Weblog award

    Kat gave me this award, thank you!! Her blog, Oranges and Peaches, is a play on the library reference question where someone comes in and asks for Darwin’s Oranges and Peaches — what can happen when you lack a piece of so-called common knowledge that makes the answer nearly impossible to find. I hereby award…

  • Beadwork on commercial products

    The most recent product I know of which employed a beader to make the packaging art is Celestial Seasonings. Heidi Kummli did the beadwork for Tropical Grapefruit Tea. I also have read that Jo Wood was commissioned by Kimberly-Clark to do artwork for a Kleenex box in 2000. I have yet to find any image…

  • Carol Wilcox Wells – Masters: Beadweaving

    Lark Books is releasing Masters: Beadweaving this month, and they have an interview online with Carol Wilcox Wells, the curator of the book. Included with the interview is a slide show of about 10 pieces. I live in the same area as Laura Leonard, and she shows at local fine craft shows — I always…