Dulcey Heller

Category: Jewelry

  • Occasional beadwork project: crocheted beads

    Not what you expected from the title, right? I’m beading a long chain of 4-around peyote, and then using chain stitch to make a chain. I think. It takes 18″ of rope to make these 3″ of chain stitch.

  • Occasional beadwork project: fossil coral cab

    Taken in the sunshine, which isn’t the best for showing the beads or for accurate color – but shows the cab well – is an occasional beading project sitting on my work table. It’s fossilized coral, and the large beads are carnelian. I don’t think I’m going to do much more around the cab, but…

  • Mixed metal earrings

    Brick stitch with metal-look size 15 beads around a “hammered” base metal oval, on sterling ear wires.

  • Antique African Djenne trade beads

    Meet the oldest beads I own. I have strung these Djenne beads into a 27″ triple strand necklace with Italian seed beads as spacers. Lois Scherr Dubin, in The History of Beads, writes that “all the glass beads excavated from Djenne in Mali date to the later phases of the Islamic period, c. A.D. 1000-1400.” They are…

  • Knit glass from Carol Milne

    I’ve been aware for a couple of years that the Glass Art Society has a fashion show at their conferences, and have seen pictures of some really fun creations. Before their last conference, I read in a Northwest Designer Craftsmen newsletter about a project that Carol Milne was doing for the fashion show, and immediately, I…