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Bf ADI.D AMULET PURSES • APPENDIX A SI

Single-needle,

Right-angle Weave

Decreasing at the sides

Used in Project Six

Decreasing at the sides of the single-needle, right-angle weave is very simple. Be surę you have completed the row and then position the thread to begin one square from the edge.

If the row has an odd number of squares. Add the two

beads of the last square, then take the needle down through the left vertical bead of the previous square, through the lower horizontal of the second from the last square of the row, up through the left verlical bead of the same square, and finally through the upf>er horizontal of that same inside square (figurę A-26). You have just gone through all four beads of the second square from the edge. String on three beads and continue as usual.

If the row has an even number of squares. When com-pleting the last square of the row, do not pass through the upper horizontal bead as usual. Exit the left vertical bead and then pass through the upper horizontal bead of the previous square of the row (figurę A-27). String on three beads and continue as usual.

Figurę A-27. Decreasing with an even number of sguores per row.

Fringe

Fringe adds movement to the woven beadwork. It can ałso obscure a seam. Fringe is an excellent design element in which to use larger beads that are difficult to mcorporate within the woven bead fabric.

To make a single standard fringe element. String several beads. Take the needle back through all but the last bead strung. In other works, the thread goes through the bottom bead only once but twice through all the other beads of the fringe (figurę A-28a). Figurę A-28b is a vari-ation of this fringe.

Branched Fringe

The branched fringe, or kinky fringe, has become very popular in the last few years and can be surprisingly ver-satile. In Projects Three and Four, the artists used dense-ly packed, longer branched fringes to lend textural and visual interest. In Project Six, David Chatt used two larger beads to make shori branches to create a very textur-al, frilled edge around the woven bead fabric.

To make a sample of branched fringe. String sixteen seecf beads and take the needle back through the first three of the last four beads. Bring the needle out between the fourth and fifth bead from the bottom. String on four beads and take the needle back through three beads — a branch. Continue up the strand passing through four morę beads. Make anothcr branch and continue up four beads, make another branch. Exit out the last four beads of the main column (figurę A-28c).