[Jewelry making - Article 01096] - Re: [Orchid] What Is Jewelry Design?

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hello again don - 

>     I used to do beading but just got too busy doing other things

    this time you have to make it to the delray affair, april 21, 22, &
    23 - hopefully my regular space at the southeast corner of atlantic
    and 4th - anyway, i too did some beading, not the stringing type -
    except for one neckpiece i made to look like elegant spanish moss
    strung around the neck - it was a 'what if i do this and this' thing:
    string about 1.5" to 2" of the metalic-iridesent-gray beads and then
    run the.012 tigertail wire back through already strung sections
    randomly until it started to look like a 'ruff' of spanish moss. to
    keep it off of the neck and not drooping down at the back i melted
    low-temp solder into a sterling bicone bead for weight and a catch -
    which pulled it back enough to set away from the neck just right. it
    was neat! 2 women almost came to blows over who got to buy it. but
    here's one of the two reasons i gave up beading on strings: in a
    hurry to see how the weighted thingie would work i polished the
    bicone bead before i put away the thousand or so
    metalic-iridesent-gray beads in a tray, on top of a towel (holds
    tray in place) - the flexshaft cable snagged on something under my
    bench and when i ducked my head without turning it off - yup.
    spinning flexshaft met towel. but, on a dark night, when the wind
    buffets impatiently against the windows of my studio and there's only
    a sliver of moon playing hide and seek with my once familiar but now
    alien equipment in a suddenly unrecognizable studio - then, from
    loose thread in a seam along the fabric of time, a metalic-iridesent
    spot of glitter will flash as it rolls across a patch of moonlight. 

    that incident, and the 42 drawer (all full) bead cabinet that tipped
    over one evening - 

thanks for the email -
ive
ps: isn't joyce's design paradigm way ahead of most?

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