La Llorona
4" x 9" excluding
frame
Embroidery with glass beads
Best of Show, Bead International 2004
Featured in 500 Beaded Objects, Lark Books
and The Beader's Guide to Color, by Margie Deeb
La Llorona is the wailing woman who wanders the
irrigation canals in search of her lost children.
Simple running stitch with a bit of extra couching, on Ultrasuede, using
Czech and Japanese glass seed beads. The bronzes and coppers of the
cottonwood trees are rare metallic Czech true cuts and charlottes.
Kenneth Patchen Peace Missile
"Peace now for all men or amen to all things" -- K. Patchen
2-1/4" x 7" including base
Peyote stitch
glass beads, 20mm dummy missile, wood, silver, acrylic paint
Photos by Pat Berrett
Peyote stitch with size 14 Japanese seed beads
based on an illustrated poem by Kenneth Patchen.
Road Trip
9" x 12" excluding frame
Bead embroidery with halftone photograph,
linocut, glass beads, vintage sequins and nailheads
Based on a colored pencil drawing made after a glorious
road trip from Albuquerque to Mexico and back again
Maidenhair Fern Purse
about 12" x 30", including strap
Glass beads, ostrich shell disks, deer antler, bone, leather
Leatherwork by Mark Bondy, Rollinsville, Colorado
featured in The Beader's Guide to Color, by Margie Deeb
Bead embroidered with size 11 true cut beads and ostrich shell sequins
on ultrasuede, using hand sketched design on 100% rag paper
tacked to the back of the ultrasuede, then removed.
Completed beadwork was then stitched to the purse flap.
Unity Mandala
Embroidery with glass beads, vintage sequins & nailheads, gemstones,
found objects, gemstone beads, silver, vintage sari silk, matboard
Featured in Beading for the Soul, by Deborah Canarella, 2005
Second Prize, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, 2005
was added before stitch-mounting the piece onto red mattboard,
which I decorated with a stamped floral pattern. (The bronze nailheads
in the corners of the silk serve as anchors for stitching.)
Embroidery with glass beads
Best of Show, Bead International 2004
Featured in 500 Beaded Objects, Lark Books
and The Beader's Guide to Color, by Margie Deeb
La Llorona is the wailing woman who wanders the
irrigation canals in search of her lost children.
Simple running stitch with a bit of extra couching, on Ultrasuede, using
Czech and Japanese glass seed beads. The bronzes and coppers of the
cottonwood trees are rare metallic Czech true cuts and charlottes.
Kenneth Patchen Peace Missile
2-1/4" x 7" including base
Peyote stitch
glass beads, 20mm dummy missile, wood, silver, acrylic paint
Photos by Pat Berrett
Peyote stitch with size 14 Japanese seed beads
based on an illustrated poem by Kenneth Patchen.
Road Trip
Bead embroidery with halftone photograph,
linocut, glass beads, vintage sequins and nailheads
Based on a colored pencil drawing made after a glorious
road trip from Albuquerque to Mexico and back again
Road Trip detail
Here you can see the top of the laminated linocut/halftone collage,
beaded rope edging, Iroquois style embroidered sun rays,
nailheads, seed beads, sequins, and vintage metal sequins
Maidenhair Fern Purse
about 12" x 30", including strap
Glass beads, ostrich shell disks, deer antler, bone, leather
Leatherwork by Mark Bondy, Rollinsville, Colorado
featured in The Beader's Guide to Color, by Margie Deeb
Bead embroidered with size 11 true cut beads and ostrich shell sequins
on ultrasuede, using hand sketched design on 100% rag paper
tacked to the back of the ultrasuede, then removed.
Completed beadwork was then stitched to the purse flap.
Unity Mandala
6" x 8" excluding frame
Embroidery with glass beads, vintage sequins & nailheads, gemstones,
found objects, gemstone beads, silver, vintage sari silk, matboard
Featured in Beading for the Soul, by Deborah Canarella, 2005
Second Prize, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, 2005
Unity Mandala detail
The circular mandala was stitched onto white bead backing, then edged with
a triangular bead edging and stitched onto more bead backing, which
I had wrapped with sage vintage sari silk. The found object fringea triangular bead edging and stitched onto more bead backing, which
was added before stitch-mounting the piece onto red mattboard,
which I decorated with a stamped floral pattern. (The bronze nailheads
in the corners of the silk serve as anchors for stitching.)
