BFAC 2010, step 3
The front is assembled! The rose montees aren’t glued on, but this is where I’m going to place them. The beads left to use, as at least one of each bead in the kit must be used, are the 3mm jonquil Swarovski, the black hex beads, and the lampwork. All will incorporated into the back…
Sewing the Seeds: 200 Years of Iroquois Glass Beadwork
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…
Peranaken beadwork tablecloth
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…
Molly Murphy’s work on display
I’ve written before about Murphy; she won best of show and second place at the last Heard Museum Fair and Market. She’s an Oglala bead artist from Montana, and I have seen one of her pieces in person at a museum here in Minnesota. I just learned that she is part of an exhibit named…
BFAC 2010, step 2
I’ve made a couple more fans, and did some temporary stringing. This is the general idea, with fans of beads and these stained glass components. I’ll likely reverse the fans so that the wide side is nearest the pendant. The fans incorporate different colors of size 11 seed beads, and I’ll try various layouts to…