Post by @HypercubicPeg@mathstodon.xyz

2026-05-20 07:30 UTC

@matthras@aus.social @gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz Thank you Matt! It may take a while to get bored of knitting and crochet, there are lots of things to try. But if you are the sort to keep things rather than giving them away, you may find that you have to eventually scale down to avoid running out of space. I think that I probably learned to crochet over 40 years ago, and I seem to have transitioned to crocheting with thread somewhere along the line 😁😊. I am somewhat curious if Gwen’s book has any information on techniques on beading so that the beads have their holes facing “up”. I ended up figuring out a few ways to do that so that I could represent my edge-touching regular polygon patterns relatively accurately, but I am not sure if this is a very standard thing to do. I don’t think that these patterns would translate really well if the beads had to be oriented correctly.

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@gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-20 19:02

@HypercubicPeg@mathstodon.xyz @matthras@aus.social Kathy King weaves beads with the holes pointing up. See her work here. http://www.kathykingjewelry.com/ With the holes pointed up, the thread becomes an important feature of the beadwork. Personally, I prefer to try to hide the thread as much as possible, but that’s just my aesthetic choice.

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@gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-20 19:17

@HypercubicPeg@mathstodon.xyz @matthras@aus.social now that I see better what you’re doing, may I suggest that you can absolutely weave these designs with the holes parallel to the plane containing the beads, but only if you want to. It would probably be faster and easier, but it would also give the finished beadwork a very different look. You might find this paper helpful that I wrote on beading tilings. https://www.beadinfinitum.com/TilingTheoryStarWeavesG18X.pdf

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