Dress #18 "Bead-hold!"
Beads, beading supplies and bead related items
âBead-hold!...( and I still have a large bag full of these things)â
Created from the bags upon bags of assorted beads and bead related stuff that I have acquired over the years. The strings were already done so the problem became one of how to get as many of them as possible on the dress or itâs display base. All have been stitched by hand with only one or two actually glued into place due to weight. The sewing process took hours upon hours and some creative wrapping of threads that would pass through other beads to get to where I needed to be.
-stretched out T- shirt destined for donation
-green trim purchased for use on a gown that never got made
-thread, beading wire, elastic cording, craft glue and hot glue
-broken necklaces
-multiple short strands of beads originally made as décor for under my kitchen cabinets then backlit, strung for hours while watching the kids play (early 2000)
- multiple yards of beads strung on one long cord for no real reasonâ¦
-plastic crystal flowers from some restaurant centerpiece now used as a corsage
- bags of beads now sewn to the bodice or strung across the front and back to use up the bags down to 10%
-starfish, crab legs, seashells
-feathers and tassels
Stand = -broken dinner place from my Christmas china kept to match the pattern and now to support the dress and a ceramic vase once used as a silk arrangement flowerpot for a Christmas cabbage.
Nametag = formerly my Spring 1984 CWRU student ID card until I realized my SS# was embossed onto it soâ¦.the new one is my NOVA (New Organization for the Visual Arts) membership card â83-â84. The organization is no longer in operation. It started in 1972 and went defunct sometime in the mid 1980âs
âBead-hold!...( and I still have a large bag full of these things)â
Created from the bags upon bags of assorted beads and bead related stuff that I have acquired over the years. The strings were already done so the problem became one of how to get as many of them as possible on the dress or itâs display base. All have been stitched by hand with only one or two actually glued into place due to weight. The sewing process took hours upon hours and some creative wrapping of threads that would pass through other beads to get to where I needed to be.
-stretched out T- shirt destined for donation
-green trim purchased for use on a gown that never got made
-thread, beading wire, elastic cording, craft glue and hot glue
-broken necklaces
-multiple short strands of beads originally made as décor for under my kitchen cabinets then backlit, strung for hours while watching the kids play (early 2000)
- multiple yards of beads strung on one long cord for no real reasonâ¦
-plastic crystal flowers from some restaurant centerpiece now used as a corsage
- bags of beads now sewn to the bodice or strung across the front and back to use up the bags down to 10%
-starfish, crab legs, seashells
-feathers and tassels
Stand = -broken dinner place from my Christmas china kept to match the pattern and now to support the dress and a ceramic vase once used as a silk arrangement flowerpot for a Christmas cabbage.
Nametag = formerly my Spring 1984 CWRU student ID card until I realized my SS# was embossed onto it soâ¦.the new one is my NOVA (New Organization for the Visual Arts) membership card â83-â84. The organization is no longer in operation. It started in 1972 and went defunct sometime in the mid 1980âs