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SQUARE STITCH BRACELET - LEARNING OBJECTIVES
BW2-SQ-01
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
-- Bead Weaving Sequence
-- Lesson: Square Stitch, Negative Spaces, Frames
and Boundaries
-- Bracelet
In
this bracelet project, we play with design issues
associated with negative (open)spaces, boundaries,
frames, shapes and textures. We plan our design-layout
using faceted brass beads and the square stitch.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
ETRUSCAN
SQUARE STITCH BRACELET |
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BEGINNER |
INTERMEDIATE |
ADVANCED |
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TECHNICAL MECHANICS |
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1. Managing Thread Tension |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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2. Holding Your Piece To Work It |
BEGINNER |
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3. Reading Simple Pattern, Figure
and/or Graph |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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4. Selecting Materials |
BEGINNER |
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5. Identifying Areas of Potential
Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These |
BEGINNER |
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6. Determining Measurements, including
Width and Length of a Piece, Especially In
Relationship To Bead Sizes |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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7. Finishing Off Threads in Piece
or Extending by Adding Threads |
BEGINNER |
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UNDERSTANDING CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH |
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1. Starting the Stitch |
BEGINNER |
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2. Implementing the Basic Stitch |
BEGINNER |
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3. Finishing Off Your Piece With
A Clasp Assembly |
BEGINNER |
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4. Creating Simple Surface Embellishment |
BEGINNER |
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5. Creating a Simple Edging or Fringe |
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6. Working Stitch in Flat Form |
BEGINNER |
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7. Increasing and Decreasing |
BEGINNER |
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8. Working Stitch in Tubular Form |
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9. Working Stitch To Create Open
(Negative Spaces), and Split Forms |
BEGINNER |
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10. Elaborately Embellishing the
Stitch, including Fringes, Edge Treatments,
Bails, Straps and Connectors |
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11. Working Stitch in Circular Form |
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12. Working Stitch in Spiral Form |
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13. Working Stitch in Diagonal Form |
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14. Working Stitch in 3-Dimensions
(sculptural) |
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UNDERSTANDING ART & DESIGN BASIS
OF STITCH |
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1. Learning Implications When Choosing
Different Sizes/Shapes of Beads, or Using
Different Stringing Materials |
BEGINNER |
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2. Understanding Relationship of
this Stitch in Comparison to Other Types of
Bead Weaving Stitches |
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3. Understanding How Bead Asserts
Its Need For Color, Using This Stitch |
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4. Creating Your Own Design with
This Stitch, in Reference to Design Elements
and Jewelry Design Principles of Composition |
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5. Creating Shapes, Components and
Forms with This Stitch, and Establishing Themes
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BEGINNER |
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6. Building in Structural Supports,
and Other Support Elements, into the Design |
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BECOMING BEAD WEAVING ARTIST |
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1. Developing A Personal Style |
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2. Valuing or Pricing Your Work |
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3. Teaching Others The Stitch |
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4. Promoting Yourself and Your Work |
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5. Advocating for Jewelry as "Art"
and as "Design" |
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ETRUSCAN
SQUARE STITCH BRACELET
Instructor:
Warren Feld
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ABOUT
KIT
* LEARNING OBJECTIVES
* PHOTO
DETAILS
* 1. Brass
* 2. Nickel
* KIT
CONTENTS
* ORDER
INSTRUCTIONS AND KIT
LearnToBead.net Goals:
- Planning a bracelet design with a negative space
- Translating bracelet measurement goals into the
construction plan
- Understanding construction and structural issues,
such as areas of weakness, using the Square Stitch
with this design
- Discussion of Design Concepts: boundaries, frames,
negatives spaces, shapes and textures
- Adding a clasp assembly
Prerequisites:
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Orientation To Beads & Jewelry Findings
- Knowledge of square stitch
NEXT
LESSONS :
BW1.02
Netting:
Cobblestones Bracelet
or,
BW2-FR-01
FRINGE and SQUARE STITCH:
MONET'S GARDEN BRACELET
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