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Bead Net
New Ideas for Netted Beadwork
Heather Kingsley-Heath
 A RAINBOW DISKS BOOK
Copyright © Rainbow Disks Limited 2007
Rainbow Disks Ltd
Wren House,
27 Manor Road,
Bishopsteignton
Devon
TQ14 9SU
First published in the UK in 2007
Text, projects and photographs © Heather Kingsley-Heath 2007
The Author:
Heather
Kingsley-Heath
Heather Kingsley-Heath has asserted her right to be indentified as author
of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in
writing from the publisher.
Heather is a designer, teacher,
author, and owner of
The Useful Booklet Company.
Her work appears frequently
in UK magazines.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-1-906314-02-6
Heather is constantly
researching crafts in many
cultures, and her work includes
advising indigenous people on
how to create craft goods that
can sustain a meaningful income.
Copying this disk for anything other than your own use is theft. Making pirate copies
deprives people of rightful income from their hard work.
Heather Kingsley-Heath holds copyright to all designs in this book; they may be made
up for personal use only. It is illegal to sell jewellery made from these designs.
For a list of Heather’s books,
see page 62
To see more of Heather’s
work and the Useful Booklet
Company, go to Heatherworks
at:
HOW TO USE YOUR INTERACTIVE PDF
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tabs on the left-hand side – they will take you quickly to the
chapter, project or page you need.
Use the pdf zoom tool to zoom in on close-up details in photographs, and see
the details greatly enlarged.
TIP:
Click on the zoom tool and drag a box around
the area you want to enlarge.
When you have chosen your first project, print out its pages for easy and
portable reference.
Use links to suppliers to go directly to their web pages.
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 Contents
SECTION 1
SECTION 3
Increase net &
fastenings
23 Introduction
24 Swelly belly
26 Swelly belly variations
27 Tube train lariat
28 Tube train red
29 Tube train variations
30 Clasps: button and
loop
31 Clasps: beaded toggle
32 Clasps: beaded button
SECTION 5
Tube bangles
41 Introduction
42 Gild the lily
43 Gild the lily variations
44 The bangle
46
The story &
preparation
5 Introduction
6 Spread the net
7 The story of net
8 The variations of net
9 Tools
10
Sea urchin bangle
47
Sea urchin embellished
Beads
48
Sea urchin variations
11
Choosing beads
12
Creative journey
SECTION 6
Hollow net
49 Introduction
50 Baroque plain
52 Baroque more
54 Baroque bead:
donut, round
55 Baroque bead:
mini round, melon
13
Basic information
SECTION 2
Bead tubes &
beaded beads
14 Introduction
15 Five-bead net tube
16 Adding pattern lariat
17 Slinky lariat
18 Changing scale laria
t
19 Netted bead
20 Lateral embellished
bead
21 Vertical embellished
bead
SECTION 4
Flat netting
33 Introduction
34 Ring
35 Ring bangle
36 Expanda bangle
37 Expanda bangle
variations
GALLERY
56 Gallery
58 Sketchbook gallery
60 Last word
61 About Africa and me
62 Suppliers /
Useful Information
38
Netball bead
39
Spiky embellishment
40
Netball variations
22
Picot embellished bead
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This work is dedicated
to the Maasai women, who, on market days, bead under the shade
of a tree in the centre of a little town in Africa.
‘We share no other language but laughter and beads.’
I thank my family and friends
for their patient encouragement.
Most of all I thank ‘himself’
for showing me his Africa
and driving the Landrover in the rainy season.
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Section
1
The Story
Every journey starts with the first step
Introduction
M
ost small children gravitate towards sparkly things, and some of us have
been lucky enough to keep such childhood delights alive in our work and
our hobbies. I have always loved beads, and when I look back over the past,
they seem to have constantly worked their way into my life.
In the photo on the left stands my great grandmother Lucy Ann Holt. She
is bedecked in Zulu beadwork sent to her by her father from South Africa in
April 1888. The beads were a present for her 7th birthday. Sadly, her father was
never to return to England.
By the time I arrived in the family some 70 years later, just one small string
of those beads had survived, and it intrigued my tiny fingers. I can remember
too key-rings that arrived in the 1960s, sent from family friends in the USA
and decorated with beaded figures of a man in a feather headdress and his
wife. I pored over these and played with them until the thread holding the
beads together finally gave out! And who remembers those beaded purses
that swung on elbows way back then? Mine was loud, pink and
plastic, and one of my favourite treasures.
I loved the fact that beads and thread could form such a
neat pattern. It also intrigued me that beads could be made out of
anything: soft, warm wood; hard-coloured glass; even rolls of
paper, which involved a lot of glue and a winding rod, as
well as waiting for my mother to finish with her
latest glossy magazine. For me, it seems that
destiny decided early in my life that anything
with beads was special. I have been lucky to
be able to incorporate my love of beadwork
and crafts in general into my career. Luckier still
that beadwork as we know it today is such a
widespread and evolving craft in many countries.
I love the alchemy of thread and tiny beads,
which conjures up jewelled structures in our hands.
And I love the tangible link across generations and across cultures that brings
bead lovers together. But most of all I love that calm feeling that settles inside
when there is nothing to be done but beading.
The journey to this book began on a hot, sunny day in Africa when
I joined the Maasai ladies under their shady tree to bead. At first they
laughed a lot, calling me ‘sister’ and entreating me to buy the beadwork laid out
in heaps on the ground. After a lot of banter and laughter in two different
languages, I offered to show them how I had beaded the bracelet I was wearing.
We settled down to sharing techniques, and by the time I got up to go, I was
renamed ‘Mama bead’, which is the highest honour I have ever been given.
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