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Bead-around-the-world start
I’m participating in a project, hosted by Angelica, a beader in Germany, called “Bead-around-the-world.” Its blog is here, and the basic premise is this: each person makes a starting beaded bead, and then the rest of the participants make a bead to complement it. Each beader gives her size and color preferences, and at the…
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Ancient beads
I just listened to a 10 minute podcast from NPR’s All Things Considered entitled “When Did We Become Mentally Modern?” The argument is that it’s not when we began walking upright, but when we began to think in symbols. And beads have a starring role as an example. Click below to listen, or read the…
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False starts in green
Sounds like the name of a piece of art, doesn’t it? Nope, it is what it is. I had an idea which entailed draping layers of right angle weave (which is why there are three rectangles of right angle weave). The rope is twisted herringbone. I’m trying again, this time with brick stitch and square…
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Haute couture beading contest
Good Quill Hunting is running a beading contest where haute couture fashion is the inspiration for a piece of beadwork, which is to be mainly seed beads. There is a growing list of prizes, and the deadline for entering the photograph of your piece is November 20th. Pick any one of 36 images of wild…
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Brent Graber heart bead
He takes much better pictures (this really should be on a background), but isn’t this bead beautiful? Brent Graber recently made many hearts as a fund-raiser for some surgery he needed, as an uninsured artist. Maybe after the Muse project, I will look at my supplies for stringing ideas. Or go shopping for some cords…