BEAD THE BEST OF BEAD&BUTTON MAGAZINE Mil l it >N What to do with all those beautiful beads? Peyote stitch! Seed beads come in every color of the rainbow, so why not learn the most versatile stitch for turning them into gorgeous jewelry and more? Use peyote stitch to make two-dimensional fiat pieces or tubes in any diameter, With beads, needles, and beading thread-and these instructions-you can make anything from bracelets, necklaces, and pins to heirloom holiday ornaments and glittering decorative vases, The Best of Bead&Button: Peyote Stitch Beading Projects brings together 30 of the most outstanding projects in peyote stitch that have appeared in the pages of Bead&Button magazine over the past ten years. In these pages, you will find beautiful jewelry, amulet bags, colorful beaded beads, and home decor items-all presented with clear descriptions, drawings, and photographs to help each step of the way. Learn to make exquisite projects with ... • Elegant Cellini spiral tubes • Versatile and amazing "Wonder Beads" • Wood forms and the "bead around the bead" technique • Off-loom beaded picture charts • Free-form increases and decreases to cover any shape • Fringing, ruffled edges, and special embellishments • Projects with pearls, gemstones, crystals— all your favorites! From the fundamentals in the illustrated Basics section to the inspirational Gallery of pieces by talented bead artists, The Best of Bead&Button: Peyote Stitch Beading Projects offers an essential introduction to the magical possibilities of peyote stitch. Best of Bead&Button magazine Peyote Stitch Beading Projects Compiled by Julia Gerlach © 2005 Kalmbach Publishing Co. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in I im part or in whole without written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief I ft' quotations used in reviews. Published by Kalmbach Trade Press* a division of Kalmbach Publishing Co,, 21027 Crossroads Circle* Waukesha, W[ 53186. These books are distributed to the book trade by Watson -Guptill. Printed in the United States of America 05 06 07 08 09 10 1 1 12 13 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Publishers Cataloging- In- Publication Data (Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.) Peyote stitch projects : from the pages of Bead £k button magazine, -- p, : ill. ; cm, (Best of Bead 8c button magazine) Includes index. ISBN: 0-871 16-218-0 1. Beadwork-- Patterns. 2. Beadwork-- Handbooks* manuals* etc. 1, Title: Bead & button, TT860 ,P49 2005 745.582 Managing Art Directory Lisa Bergman Photographers: Jim Forbes, William Zuback Project editors: Julia Gerlach, Pam O'Connor Acknowledgements: Mindy Brooks, Terri Field, Lora Groszkiewicz, Kellie Jaeger, Diane Jolie, Patti Keipe, Alice Korach, Tonya Limberg, Debbie Nishihara, Cheryl Phelan, Carrie Rohloff, Carole Ross, Candice St, Jacques, Maureen Schimmel, Lisa Schroeder, Terri Torbcck, Elizabeth Weber, Lesley Wrciss These designs are for your personal use. They are not intended for resale. All projects have appeared previously in Bead&Button magazine. A [ i CONTENTS Introduction 4 Basics 5 Gallery 9 JEWELRY Peyote ribbon lariat 14 Easy peyote tube necklace 15 Alternative circular peyote start 17 Embellished peyote tube necklace 18 Two- & three-drop peyote bracelet 19 Two-needle peyote start 21 Snake trail bracelet 22 Silver sensation bracelet 24 Peyote-framed pearl bracelet 26 Peyote window bracelet 29 Bejeweled peyote bracelet 32 Wood rose necklace 36 Captive caboehon pendant 40 Ruffled brooch 42 Cellini spiral necklace 46 Free-form bracelet 48 Shaped necklace 51 Russian leaves pendant or brooch 53 BEADED BEADS Lacy beaded beads 58 Bead around the bead 60 Wonder beads unveiled 63 Beaded buttons 66 AMULET BAGS Medicine bags 70 Tribute to the rain forest 75 HOME DECOR Collectible catch-alls 80 Beaded tassels 82 Freeform peyote vase 85 Spiral vessels 88 Breathtaking ornaments 92 Contributors 95 Index 96 INTRODUCTION When BeadEtButton magazine began glittering surfaces that exactly rendered charted publication in 1994, a period of exuberant designs. These beads gave a centuries-old stitch discovery and experimentation had begun in the a new-millennium look. bead community. Interest in traditional bead work Within these pages, you will find works that had revealed to a new generation of bead artists a draw from the rich traditions of the past and those wonderful array of off-loom beadweaving stitches that look to the future. Selected from 11 years of from American Indian, African, Russian, and other publication, the very best designs have been cultures. With enthusiasm, artists began to adopt included in these pages: beautiful jewelry, bags, these techniques to make innovative works of art and objects that make this traditional stitch and ornamentation. supremely relevant for today’s bead artist Breakthrough works such as Virginia Blakelock's Several of these projects are expressly oriented Cellini spiral necklaces (demonstrated by Deb to the process of peyote stitching, providing Samuels on page 46) and Wendy Ellsworth's rapid- techniques and methods to help you devise increase peyote -stitch vessels (page 90) expanded your own version of the work- with the benefit everyone's conception of what was possible. These of the artist's expertise. Others give you step-by- and many other novel applications of traditional step guidance for replicating a piece of jewelry techniques were first introduced to the world at or artwork. large through the pages of BcadEtButton* Whichever road you take, you 11 appreciate Peyote stitch, sometimes called gourd stitch, the many resources BeadEiButton consistently is a beadweaving technique adapted from Native provides: a comprehensive “Basics" section, American traditional bead work, Many bead artists detailed materials lists, clear how-to photographs consider it foremost among their creative tools. and figures, and the confidence that all our It creates a sinuous fabric by closely nestling the projects have been tested by the editors. Take beads next to each other. When a highly uniform some time to browse through our "Gallery” type of cylinder bead was introduced to the section for inspiration and then get started on American market by Japanese bead companies your own peyote pursuit. Miyuki and To ho, the tight weave of peyote stitch took on a new relevance. Artists could create sleek, - The editors of Bead&Button 1 BASICS CONDITIONING THREAD SQUARE KNOT LADDER AND BRICK STITCH Conditioning straightens and Cross the left-hand cord over the 1 A ladder of seed 2 strengthens your thread and also right-hand cord, and then bring it under or bugle beads is helps it resist fraying, separating, and the right-hand cord from back to front. most often used to tangling. Pull unwaxed nylon threads Pull it up in front so both ends are begin brick stitch; like Nymo through either beeswax (not facing upwards. Pick up two beads. candle wax or paraffin) or Thread Leave a 3-4-in. Heaven to condition. Beeswax adds (8-10cm) tall and tackiness that is useful if you want your go through both beads again in the 4 beadwork to fit tightly. Thread Heaven same direction. Pull the top bead down adds a static charge that causes the so the beads are side by side. The thread thread to repel itself, so it can't be used exits the bottom of bead #2. String with doubled thread. All nylon threads Cross right over left, forming a loop, bead #3 and go back through §2 from stretch, so maintain tension on the and go through the loop, again from top to bottom. Come back up #3. thread as you condition it. back to front Pull the ends to tighten 25 String bead #4. Go through #3 from the knot. bottom to top and #4 from top to HALF-HITCH KNOT bottom. Add odd-numbered beads like Come out a bead and form a loop #3 and even-numbered beads like #4. perpendicular to the thread between 3 To stabilize the ladder, zigzag back beads. Bring the through all the beads. needle under the thread away from the loop. Then go back over the thread and SURGEON'S KNOT through the loop. Cross the right end Pull gently so the over the left and Begin each row so no thread shows knot doesn't go through loop. on the edge; String two beads. Go under tighten prematurely. Go through loop the thread between the second and again. Pull ends to third beads on the OVERHAND KNOT tighten. Cross the ladder from back to Make a loop and left end over the front Pull tight. Go pass the working right and go up the second bead end through it. through once. Tighten. added, then down the Pull the ends to first. Come back up tighten the knot the second bead. For the remaining stitches on each row, pick up one bead. Pass the needle under the next loop on the row below from back to front. 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