Ammolite - gem ammonite
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Ammolite - gem ammoniteAmmolite is an opal-like organic gemstone found primarily along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of North America. It is a thin iridescent aragonite shell material that is found on two species of extinct ammonite fossils; the same mineral contained in nacre. Ammolite is one of few biogenic gemstones; others include amber and pearl, mother-of-pearl, coral, gagate (jet). Ammolite is also known as AAPOAK (the Kainai Nation word for "small, crawling stone"), "ammonite shell", "gem ammonite", "calcentine", and "korite". The latter is a trade name given to the gemstone by the Alberta-based Canada mining company Korite International, the first and largest commercial producer of ammolite. Significant deposits of gem-quality ammolite are only found in the Bearpaw Formation that extends from Alberta to Saskatchewan in Canada and south to Montana in the USA. However, small deposits have been found as far south as Central Utah which also contains gem-quality ammolite. The best grade of gem quality ammolite is along high energy river systems on the eastern slopes of the Rockies in southern Alberta. The grade and therefore the value of an ammolite gemstone is determined by the following criteria: the number of primary colors (red and green are far more common than blue or purple), the way the colors "play" (how the colors vary with the angle of viewing and the angle of light striking the gemstone), brightness of colors (iridescence). The thickness of the ammolite layer is also an important factor: after polishing, the ammolite is only 0.1-0.3 millimeters thick. Ammolite is usually fashioned into freeform cabochons and mounted in gold, with diamonds as accents. Due to its delicacy, ammolite is best reserved for use in pendants, earrings, and brooches. |
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Fashion Colorworks 2016 Jurors
Miho Kanaya.
Miho Kanaya was born and lives in Japan. She started
to create beadworks in 1999 after being inspired
by Joyce J. Scott designs at the American Craft
Museum (Museum of Arts and Design) in NYC. Miho has
completed 4 life-size kimono-costumes with 1,650,000
beads and six-folding Byobu screen with 2,063,738
beads that was registered as "The largest 2D
beadwork in the world" by the Guinness World Record
in 2009. Her brand new beadwork is a 0.3m x 5m
picture scroll with 600,000 beads.
Blog: blog.livedoor.jp/artbead
Olga Shumilova.
Olga Shumilova lives in Russia, near Moscow, since
2008 she is professionally engaged in beadwork. She
started with simple beadwoven works, but one day
Olga decided that she could create more interesting
beadworks, and created a set of beaded handbags,
which won the international exhibition "Bead Design"
(Moscow, Russia). A two handbags from this collection
were later presented in the Bead Dreams at the
Bead&Button Show in Milwaukee, USA.
Blog: pautin.livejournal.com
Marsha Wiest-Hines.
Personal adornment and expression of character
through clothing has been a life-long interest
of Marsha Wiest-Hines. She has been creating
wearable art for 45 years in the form of
theatrical costumes for the stage, competition
clothing and jewelry for ballroom dancers, and
most recently, beadwoven jewelry and accessories.
She was born in Montana, and earned her BFA in
Design and Technical Theater at University of
Montana, and a MA in Costume Design from Purdue
University. She lives in Minneapolis with her
husband Carl, where she has worked as a draper,
tailor, designer, and costume shop manager at
the Guthrie Theater and Minneapolis Children's
Theater.
Blog: hauteicebeadworks.blogspot.com
Eva Maria Keiser.
Eva Maria Keiser originally from Vienna, Austria,
currently resides in Boise, Idaho, USA. In 2000 bead
art was serendipitously introduced, complimenting a
multi-generational heritage of needlework. The medium
of beads added a new dimension of texture and light
refraction. Her passion for architected structural
design was renewed from witnessing the grandeur of
European masters.
Blog: keiserdesigns.blogspot.com
Patrizia Tager.
Patrizia Tager was born in Italy where she lived till
the age of 12. At the age of 12 her family moved to
London (UK) where she attended school and college.
She graduated with a B.A. Hons. in Fashion Design.
After college Patrizia moved to Israel, where she
resides today. Her interest in beadwork was ignited
after attending basic beadweaving classes at a local
bead shop.
Blog: triz-beadingmania.blogspot.com
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Fashion Colorworks 2015. Maia Otkidach
Maia Otkidach, Zabrze, Poland Maia says, "In my early childhood my mother instilled in me a love for the arts and crafts. Among my favorite toys was a set of postcards with reproductions of paintings of the St. Petersburg's Hermitage, which I could watch for hours. My mother was a beautiful cross-stitch embroiderer and taught it to me, and I've done that craft for a while. When I was about 10-12 years old, a friend of mine and I we got into the hands a women's magazine with bead stringing patterns. We didn't have such a material for creativity in our provincial town, and we cut Grandma's necklace made from the Czech beads. Of course, then I had unpleasant conversation with her, but my first beadworks turned out beautiful! Later life rewrote seemingly well-defined scenario - I became an engineer although dreamed of studying arts and art history, and I forgot about beads for years to come. And then my life suddenly made a turn, it was just like in the proverb, "There was a blessing in disguise." In hot June 2012 I broke my leg and it was in a cast, and during this forced inactivity occurred to me, a crazy idea - as I thought then - came to me: I'll make jewelry. It started simply - a pin, a ring and a bead, then it was a great introduction to microscopic (as I thought then) and huge (as I think today) beads 6/0. But the most important thing was that the door to the secret garden was found! My beading universities were beading books (my favorite authors - Diane Fitzgerald and Sabine Lippert) and the hours spent at the computer in the study of techniques, patterns and tutorials. A lot of useful things on bead embroidery I learned from Maria Vukolova and Tatiana Panina. A great source of inspiration for me are the works of art - it can be a picture, an architectural object, and the individual elements of the decor - whether painted on a plate or an old tile. For example, stained glass with stylized roses by the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh inspired me to design Art Nouveau Roses Necklace. New creative ideas come always unexpected and often radically alter the original project. I was going to enter Fashion Colorworks 2015 with a completely different beadwork, but by chance in May I visited the Castle Museum in the village of Golukhow (Poland, near the center of the triangle Lodz - Wroclaw - Poznan), formerly belonging to Izabella Dzialynska (daughter of Prince Adam Czartoryski)..."
Full article by Maia Otkidach
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Fashion Colorworks 2015. Natalia Orlova
Natalia Orlova, Odessa, Ukraine Natalia says, "Like many other girls, when I was a child, my friends and I wove simple beaded things like bracelets. But we grew up, our hobbies have changed, and I've forgotten about beads for a while. One day, when I was still a little girl, my parents and I drove past the Odessa Polytechnic Institute, and when I saw that nice building, I immediately announced that I would study there after my high school. And so it was, after school I enrolled in the Faculty of Economics. Probably, it was hard to imagine a profession more distant from creation of jewelry. However, I had another dream - to learn how to create beauty, and perhaps I made it true through working with soutache. Like many women I was fascinated again with beaded things when I was on maternity leave. I tried to grasp the immensity and experimented with all techniques that I liked, I really wanted to learn beaded braids knitting, but I couldn't get this "complex" science that time. And once, when I was once again looking for a new pattern over the Internet, I stumbled on a free tutorial on the soutache bracelet by Anneta Valious. I saw... and immediately fell in love with those curls, smooth lines and a surprising lightness of soutache jewelry! Almost immediately I rushed to the closest crafting goods store to look for this wonderful material, but everything wasn't so simple. All shop sellers have not even heard about this cord. Somehow I could manage to get my "treasure", just a few meters of soutache of colors that didn't match each other. Naturally, that soutache was of questionable quality, too soft for my inept hands. I still keep in a the box my first bracelet made from the terrible bright purple soutache and Chinese beads with other jewelry, perhaps as a reminder of "how it all began" or "how it should not be done". Of course, later I bought a "right" soutache and changed Chinese beads to Czech and then to Japanese ones. At work, I always try to make each piece as gently as possible, often rip and alter the elements and try to diversify my activity and develop new techniques. For example, now I use shibori silk ribbon and elements embroidered on canvas. I'm learning from other masters, I use as examples works of Anneta Valious, Jadwiga Betley and Julia Izerskaya..."
Full article by Natalia Orlova
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Perlen Poesie Magazine. Issues 25 and 26PERLEN POESIE 25. A Summer Dream Kerrie Slade gives us a glimpse into her little beaded fairy tales and indulges us with the lush, summery neckwear "Garden Party". The Daisy Chain course is good for beginners. Intriguing projects await you such as Francis Drake, a small dragon for your wrist, and the necklaces Golden Harvest and Fireworks. You'll also enjoy an assortment of easy-to-assemble pieces from earrings to pendants. And as usual, a little bit of history: How were glass pearls made? Finally, enjoy the nominated pieces for the 2015 International Bead Award: "On a Journey of Discovery".
Flower Power with Attention to Detail PERLEN POESIE 26. Fires of Autumn Inspiration Kindle the fires of Autumn inspiration with the 17 jewelry projects this issue has to choose from. Beside the classical stitching techniques, there are suggestions on connecting beads with micro macrame, chainmaille and soutache. In addition, get tips for the use of 2-hole-beads and take a course in chevron stitch.
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