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DESCRIPTION:
GWYNIAN ROPES BRACELET
Instructor: Warren Feld
$65.00 fee plus KIT ($65.00 deposit reserves space)
Additional supplies required (see below); KIT AVAILABLE

PURCHASE KITS AND INSTRUCTIONS:

Kit with Instructions on CD or CD Instructions Only
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The GWYNIAN ROPES BRACELET contrasts and balances order and chaos, regimentation and freedom, flatness and dimensionality, tight arrangement and playful disorder. 

I was inspired by the fantasy world's arrangement of gods with opposing forces. Those serving these gods were called the priests of Gwynneth. They teach how to recognize and manage the duality and oppositon of chaos and order.

The GWYNIAN ROPES BRACELET is made from either Austrian Crystal or Czech fire polish glass beads, and additional Austrian crystal, Japanese drop, peanut, long magatama, and seed beads, as well as Czech superduo two-holed beads. This bead woven piece has a modified right-angle weave stitched foundation of Austrian crystal beads.

As with all my projects, I like to infuse the designs with aspects of contemporary design goals.     In this project, I set out to accomplish four contemporary design goals, including:

1. Dimensionality:   We don’t want our pieces to be flat and one-dimensional, nor do we want our efforts to achieve a greater dimensionality to overwhelm the piece.
2. Interplanar Space:  We want to build in subtle violations of “straight lines” and “flat planes”, without detracting from the overall aesthetic.
3. Control over interplay of light and shadow:   We want the components of the piece, as well as the piece as a whole, to always excite with unexpected reflections and refractions of light and shadow.   The piece should never feel like a static photograph.
4. Infuse an intellectual tension:   We want this piece in particular to show a successful control over that which is “chaotic”  and that which is “orderly”.

SKILL LEVEL REQUIRED:

This course is Intermediate/Advanced

PREREQUISITES:

ORIENTATION TO BEADS AND JEWELRY FINDINGS
(All students are required to begin our curriculum with this ORIENTATION CLASS.    The Orientation Class is offered once a month.)

BEAD WEAVING BASICS (or equivalent)

Some beginner level experience with Right Angle Weave. 

GOAL:

To utilize many different shapes of seed beads to achieve a dimensional vintage-looking piece with contemporary design elements.

PROJECTS/TASKS:

1. Learn variations on right angle weave to create both flat, planar elements, as well as dimensional rope elements.
2. Create framework
3. Embellish framework
4. Create Gwynian Ropes
5. Attach ropes to frame
6. Attach clasp.

SKILLS LEARNED:

SUPPLIES REQUIRED:

KIT AVAILABLE

- Austrian Crystal round beads or Czech Fire Polish glass round beads  (2 colors 3mm series 5000:   524 beads; 8 beads) (1 color 2mm series 5000 (15 beads) (3 colors 3mm series 5328: 22 of each)
- Japanese seed beads -
             size 11/0  (3 grams) 
             size 15/0  (3 colors:  1.2 grams, .6 grams, .2 grams)
             super duos, (7.5 grams)
             long magatamas, (19 grams)
             peanut beads. (10 grams)
             2.8mm mini fringe drops (11.2 grams)
- push-pull clasp (1 clasp)
- Fireline thread, size D, Smoke Gray,  (1 50 yard spol)
- 4 size #12 beading needles
- Bees wax or microcrystalline wax



Provided in class...

- Scissors
- Bead reamer 
- Ruler, pencil and paper
- Work Surface
- Bic lighter or thread zapper
- Bead to use as "stopper", or bead stoppers, or clamps
- chain nose or flat nose pliers
- bracelet sizing cone or some way to measure your wrist