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SAORI Six
A gift for a friend – it has been opened and I can share. This is mostly cotton, some rayon, a little superwash wool. It could be a shawl, or it could be cut up and made into something. I’ve got some single strands of heavier weight yarn inlays, a little bit of clasped weft…
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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…
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Julie Powell in Ornament Magazine
Ornament is a lovely magazine. Subtitled the “Art and Craft of Personal Adornment,” it really is. The current issue has a feature article on Julie Powell and her beadwork, and is fully available online. Powell’s work was the inspiration for my recent multi-strand herringbone necklace. Enjoy!
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SAORI Five
I realized I forgot to blog this, a gift I made in July. It’s a mixture of mostly mohair and mohair blends, wool, and cotton. This was my first foray into mohair, and it was a bit of a challenge. I thought I was being smart by bracketing each mohair warp with a slick cotton…
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Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence
Now at the Dayton Institute of Art are grand, elaborate, beaded tapestries made by Xhosa (and one Zulu) women from rural South Africa, “Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence.” Ubuhle means “beauty” in the Xhosa and Zulu languages. In the article on Dayton Local, Amy Dallis writes that the beadwork is contemporary in style, and…