LEARNING OBJECTIVES

RIGHT ANGLE WEAVE
LTB-BW3-RAW-01 Gwynian Ropes Bracelet
7 1/4" Bracelet
Intermediate/Advanced Level Class

BEGINNER

INTERMEDIATE

ADVANCED

TECHNICAL MECHANICS

1. Managing Thread Tension

INTERMEDIATE

2. Holding Your Piece To Work It

 INTERMEDIATE

3. Reading Simple Pattern, Figure and/or Graph

 INTERMEDIATE

4. Selecting Materials

 ADVANCED

5. Identifying Areas of Potential Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These

 BEGINNER

6. Determining Measurements, including Width and Length of a Piece, Especially In Relationship To Bead Sizes

 INTERMEDIATE 

7. Finishing Off Threads in Piece or Extending by Adding Threads

 BEGINNER

UNDERSTANDING CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH

1. Starting the Stitch

 INTERMEDIATE 

2. Implementing the Basic Stitch

 ADVANCED 

3. Finishing Off Your Piece With A Clasp Assembly

  INTERMEDIATE

4. Creating Simple Surface Embellishment

 INTERMEDIATE 

5. Creating a Simple Edging or Fringe

 INTERMEDIATE 

6. Working Stitch in Flat Form

 INTERMEDIATE 

7. Increasing and Decreasing

8. Working Stitch in Tubular Form

  ADVANCED

9. Working Stitch To Create Open (Negative Spaces), and Split Forms

  INTERMEDIATE  

10. Elaborately Embellishing the Stitch, including Fringes, Edge Treatments, Bails, Straps and Connectors

 INTERMEDIATE 

11. Working Stitch in Circular Form

12. Working Stitch in Spiral Form

13. Working Stitch in Diagonal Form

14. Working Stitch in 3-Dimensions (sculptural)

UNDERSTANDING ART & DESIGN BASIS OF STITCH

1. Learning Implications When Choosing Different Sizes/Shapes of Beads, or Using Different Stringing Materials

 INTERMEDIATE  

2. Understanding Relationship of this Stitch in Comparison to Other Types of Bead Weaving Stitches

3. Understanding How Bead Asserts Its Need For Color, Using This Stitch

  INTERMEDIATE 

4. Creating Your Own Design with This Stitch, in Reference to Design Elements and Jewelry Design Principles of Composition

5. Creating Shapes, Components and Forms with This Stitch, and Establishing Themes

 ADVANCED

6. Building in Structural Supports, and Other Support Elements, into the Design

    INTERMEDIATE 

BECOMING BEAD WEAVING ARTIST

1. Developing A Personal Style

2. Valuing or Pricing Your Work

3. Teaching Others The Stitch

4. Promoting Yourself and Your Work

5. Advocating for Jewelry as "Art" and as "Design"

What You Will Learn:
- Manipulating "shape" and "dimension" in design
- Creating "negative" and "positive" spaces
- Adding sense of "movement" to piece
- Adapting the Right Angle Weave stitch pathways to allow a particular embellishment pattern
- Adapting the Right Angle Weave stitch pathways to create a 3-dimensional rope using 2-hole superduo beads with long magatamas and peanut beads
- Creating a framework base using right angle weave
- Creating right angle weave ropes
- Incorporating the ropes within the negative spaces created by our framework base
- Attaching a clasp assembly

Prerequisites:
- Orientation To Beads & Jewelry Findings
- Good working knowledge of right angle weave stitch
- An intermediate level knowledge of and experience with bead weaving and managing thread tension

TimeFrame:
This bracelet takes about 24 hours to complete