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The Weather Diaries at the American Swedish Institute
The Weather Diaries just closed at the American Swedish Institute. I visited, and following are pictures of the beaded works on exhibition. There were pictures of models wearing beadwork as well, as shown in the exhibition link. From the website: “A stunning exhibition of photographic artworks by Cooper & Gorfer linked with one-of-a-kind installations, The Weather…
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SAORI Two complete, the caterpillar edition
This yarn is AWESOME. I am having so much fun seeing what patterns emerge, just weaving back and forth. There’s no planning, and most of these pattern changes are not because of a new bobbin of warp. Argyle! Solid stripes with something that makes me think of corduroy. More stripes, with an argyle interlude. Look…
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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…