Bead International, a biennial bead exhibit well-regarded by the bead community, will not be held in 2010.  The Dairy Barn website says that if funding and increased support are received, that it may be held in the future. It’s hard to see the effect of the economy on the arts communities.  One bead museum gone,…

In Corning, NY, at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, is a 200 year retrospective of Haudenosaunee beadworkers, who created pieces of beadwork for the tourist trade.  There is only one picture of a pincushion (I’ve seen several pieces at a local museum, one piece here in an earlier blog entry), but there are more…

And something else I really want to see!  In Singapore, a 1.6 meter x 1.6 meter Peranaken beadwork tablecloth was recently restored.  It’s an early twentieth century beaded artifact — ornate bead-embroidered Victorian flowers and birds likely commissioned by a wealthy family for special occasions.  I read that Peranaken are descendants of Chinese immigrants.  I…