Category: Education

  • Want a beautiful bead book?

    I still haven’t managed to see the video documentary, World on a String, produced by Diana Friedberg. Friedberg has made an accompanying book, and her photography is beautiful. World on a String: Companion for Bead Lovers available to purchase on Blurb, and the entire book is available for preview online; too small to read, but…

  • More on tambour work

    The latest issue of Piecework, an Interweave Press publication, caught my eye yesterday. Tambour embroidery is on the cover! And the article is by Bob Haven, who has commented on tambour beading posts on this blog. He writes of its history and basic technique, tambour hook and stitches, fabrics and frames. A project article follows,…

  • The Beaded Molecules Bih-Yaw Jin is teaching a class

    If I were a chemistry student at Okayama University in Japan, or National Taiwan University, I would so be at this workshop! Bih-Yaw Jin is going to have a three-hour workshop, Molecular Modeling of Fullerenes with Mathematical Beading: a Hands-on Approach, next month in Taiwan. Students will make molecular models of fullerenes with beads and…

  • Beautiful Jean Campbell, in beautiful Tennessee

    Or should I say glamorous? Jean is teaching Glam Beadwork Design Workshop at Arrowmont in April. “Students will start by using a selection of studio photos from Hollywood’s Golden Age … as inspiration.” Jean will assist in the process of developing a jewelry idea from conception to creation. I’m sure this will be great fun.…

  • Joyce Scott is teaching at Haystack!

    Joyce Scott is teaching at Haystack in Maine from August 26 to September 1st. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss, if you’re at all interested. Joyce doesn’t teach that often, and she is a wonderful teacher (I took her week-long beaded figure class) – amongst and around being invigorated with her teaching,…