Hand made bead woven jewelry

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Unique One of a Kind Hand Beaded Jewelry

Hand made bead woven jewelry is a pleasure to own and a joy to create. The Bead Doodler Creates unique one-of-a-kind designs to sell in her Etsy shop.

Creating your own bead woven jewelry gives you a great sense of accomplishment as well as insuring that the item will perfectly match or compliment your clothing.

If you feel that you're just not creative enough to make your own design there are many sources of beaded jewelry patterns available.

Bead Weaving

Beaded or bead woven jewelry is such a joy to create and to wear. There are countless stitches that are thousands of years old, and countless variations on each stitch.

Beading seems to connect me to some ancient roots even tho I don't know exactly where those roots lie.

I love to pick a color pallet of various sizes of beads, thread my needle and say "what if". Sometimes I pick a stitch and use different variations throughout the project, and sometimes I mix stitches just to get the look I want.
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This "Drops Necklace" is one of my first Right Angle Weave patterns.

This "Round n Round" necklace is also Right Angle Weave. Make it with 3mm fire polished beads and 6 mm pearls for a more dressy look.

If you'd like to know more about what I've got in "the works" you can follow my progress in my blog

Bead Work

Even Count Tubular Peyote Beadwork

This is a demonstraton of even count tubular peyote bead weaving stitch. This popular beading technique is used to cover round objects and make small purses. I give a short explaination of different types of seedbeads at the end. I use size 8 cylinder beads in this demonstration.

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Bead Work Throughout the World

Sewing beads on clothing and making beaded jewelry dates back as far as the late old stone age. The beads then were made of shell and ivory. What we know as seed beading is also ancient. King Tut's tomb contained a pair of beaded slippers and a beaded hassock.

In some cultures these beaded objects were used to tell a story, much as prehistoric man drew pictures on the walls of caves.

The stitch we call peyote has been found in many different locations throughout the world. It seems many major cultures used this technique to weave their beads.

In some cultures such as the Zulu of Africa, beaded jewelry in a method of communication. Different geometric shapes as well as the colors used denote a person's status. Thus a young man can easily pick out a woman in a crowd who is single and available from the wives, mothers, widows etc.
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