[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: [NFB Krafters Korner] Monday night's chatLooms

[Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]]

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From: eileen SCRIVANI [mailto:etscrivani at verizon.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] [NFB Krafters Korner] Monday night's chatLooms

Joyce:

Most of the work is done with colors and you can make up any design you want ... stripes, boxes, diamonds and much more elaborate pictures.  You can translate knitted or needlepoint  types of designs into the bead design. 
There is a book by Don Pierce called "beading On A Loom" and at the end of the book are museum quality designs that take hundreds of thousands of beads.  Some of these designs I am pretty sure use different types of beads. 
For what I have done with it thus far, I keep it simple and am pretty sure I'd never, never want to make a project with 100,000 beads!.

You can, however, make some of the more traditional Indian style designs with a few hundred beads.  A number of years back I purchased from the Saint Joseph's Lacota Sue Indian Reservation beaded ornaments.  Say one was a snowman, but by feeling the shape you would not know it was a snowman unless you knew because the work's shape was a little abstract, and the picture was done with various color beads.

Eileen
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Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] [NFB Krafters Korner] Monday night's chatLooms


> Eileen,
>
> I was thinking of the American Indian bead work when you were talking 
> about the loom.  I have not given this any thought since I went blind.  
> If I remember most of the design work done is with color and not 
> texture of beads.
> So I would think you would work from diagrams?  Is there any  patterns 
> out there written line by line for us blind folks to be able to  use?
>
> Joyce
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