Post by @gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz

2026-05-20 19:02 UTC

@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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@HypercubicPeg@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-20 19:50

@gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz @matthras@aus.social Thank you Gwen, I hadn’t seen her work before. I had tried to do a bit of online image searching, but I don’t think that I had spotted anything really similar. Thanks to you, I now know that the term that I was missing was “bead quilling”. Some of the stuff that I have done when crocheting through beads did make use of being able to see the thread. But the stuff I was doing most recently involved very thin transparent polyester thread (Coats & Clark). I wish I knew how long the stuff is expected to last before disintegrating. I have heard bad things about nylon fishing line, but do not know if that extends to sewing-grade mono-filament. Hopefully the bead lace will remain together without having to embed it in plastic or something like that. I took a look at your website/etsy and some of the tiling-type patterns and geometric figures that you have managed while using beads the “proper” way are amazing.

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