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DESCRIPTION:

Capture the romance of the shallow waters along a tropical lagoon beach! Learn several simple bead embroidery techniques for expressing the artistry of it all.

Bead Embroidery has been used to embellish and decorate clothing since the dawn of civilization. In both Russia and China, remains have been found of bead embroidery dating back thousands of years. In more recent history, bead embroidery has been used to decorate religious items, formal attire, and household objects.

Bead Embroidery is such a versatile stitch that all beads are game! If you were working on a large wall-hanging, larger beads would be appropriate.

Conversely, if you were working on a necklace or bracelet, you would want to use beads that are proportionate to your project. Within those guidelines, any type of bead (bugle, seed, delica, drop, etc.) would enhance the dimensionality and texture of your piece.

We create a canvas, decide how to give form to this canvas, plan a design, and embroider that design onto our formed-canvas. The challenge is always to achieve a contemporary, artistic look to your piece -- one that has a sense of movement, dimensionality, a use of materials that makes the ordinary 'noteworthy', and good technique.

In this piece, I wanted to re-create the colors, patterns and lines of the beautiful forms, waves and materials along the shoreline of a tropical lagoon and the underlying reef in the Caribbean. I especially liked looking through the shallow water where it met the beach at a particularly secluded part of the lagoon.

I also wanted to create an embroidery plan that allows the student to learn several different embroidery-patterning techniques within the composition as a whole.

SKILL LEVEL REQUIRED:

Advanced Beginner

PREREQUISITIES:

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)

GOAL:

LearnToBead Goals:
- Basics of Bead Embroidery, including
--- Preparing a brass cuff form, finishing the inner and outer surfaces with ultra-suede and Lacy’s Stiff Stuff foundation
--- Drawing a template and setting up a design plan for your piece
--- Attaching beads to the foundation, using various methods, including back stitch, couching, bezeling a stone, placing beads linearly and curvalinearly, crowding, cross-hatch, and fringe-style embellishment
--- Adding an edging around your piece

PROJECT/TASKS:

Prepare Foundation and Draw Pattern
Apply several different bead embroidery techniques to finish off foundation
Attach ultra suede to brass cuff blank
Attach finished bead-embroidered foundation to cuff
Finish off the edges
Learn how to make the cuff without using a cuff blank.

SKILLS LEARNED:

SUPPLIES REQUIRED:

1/2" brass cuff blank
Lacy's stiff stuff
Ultra suede sheet
4 colors of 11/0 seed beads (3.5 grams)
6 colors of 15/0 seed beads (5 grams)
4mm druk round beads (2 beads)
3mm fire polish round beads (17 beads)
4mm druk rondelle beads (2 beads)
3mm druk round beads (2 beads)
3.4mm drop beads (10 beads)
japanese size #1 bugle beads (20 beads)
12x10mm cabochon
C-lon thread
Fabri-Tac glue
E6000 glue