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LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
BEAD
WEAVING
CATERPILLAR ESPIRITU BRACELET
BW1-SOM-08-FRINGE |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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TECHNICAL MECHANICS |
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1. Managing Thread Tension |
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2. Holding Your Piece To Work It |
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3. Reading Simple Pattern, Figure
and/or Graph |
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4. Selecting Materials |
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5. Identifying Areas of Potential
Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These |
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6. Determining Measurements, including
Width and Length of a Piece, Especially In
Relationship To Bead Sizes |
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7. Finishing Off Threads in Piece
or Extending by Adding Threads |
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UNDERSTANDING
CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH |
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1. Starting the Stitch |
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2. Implementing the Basic Stitch |
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3. Finishing Off Your Piece With
A Clasp Assembly |
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4. Creating Simple Surface Embellishment |
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5. Creating a Simple Edging or Fringe |
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6. Working Stitch in Flat Form |
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7. Increasing and Decreasing |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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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