Hand made bead woven jewelry

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Unique One of a Kind Hand Beaded Jewelry

The Bead Doodler creates some very unique jewelry using mostly seed beads and a few larger accent beads, cabochons, etc. Healing crystals or natural stones are prominent in many of the creations.
Her work has been featured in Bead Inspired Canada, an online beadwork magazine (even though she isn't Canadian).

Patterns for some jewelery are also available.

View all of The Bead Doodlers published jewelry and patterns

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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.
Drop by my Galleryand browse a while.

This "Drops Necklace" is one of my first Right Angle Weave patterns. You can find the pattern at My Etsy Shop




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. Pattern is also available at My Etsy Shop.


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

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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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Beading Supplies 

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Wysiwigs wrote...

Your beadwork is beautiful! I'm going to have to take a peek at your Etsy shop (I'm on there too :o) Nice lens.

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GlitterGlowBeading wrote...

Hello! You do great beadwork - you have some really nice patterns!

ReplyPosted November 29, 2008

LauraMarie wrote...

Love the beads, very pretty. Good lens too. 5 stars

ReplyPosted July 13, 2008

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Excellent lens ! I like the quality insight you have provided here about bead woven jewelry. Keep up the good work.

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Beadwork Sites 

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