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Beading – a Spiral Knotwork

Bracelet Pattern

– Ruth Temple

This is a fairly quick lacework beading pattern for how to build a

spiraling coil that looks like a braid of three colors. I don’t know

where the original idea for this pattern came from, I cobbled my

experimental build-backwards from a bracelet that was given me and

presumably made by the excellent beader T’Roy Guzman in

Minneapolis, years ago, so she hereby gets the credit for introducing

it to me. Thanks, T’Roy!

This is a bracelet with a self-button and loop closure, that is built up

in simple increasing lattice rows, so the final piece of beading curls

around itself, and will sit upright in its coil, and spiral out to be worn.

The original piece in my possession was done on nylon monofilament

and pulled fairly tight; the bracelet I made this spring in cobbling out

how the pattern might be done was on beading thread, and not

pulled all-the-way tight, and the result flops in a nice bead-lace sort

of way... Your mileage will vary, and this is one of the variables to

play with.

First Published in WayzGoose Magazine: A Feast of Arts and

Letters, Vol. 1, Issue 2 , which is available for $6 / copy from

Ruth Temple, 3364 21st Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Permission to freely print for personal use granted as long as this

What you will need:

Beads of the same size in three

contrasting colors

Thread or monofilament - this is

not a good project for wire.

Beading needle

Small Scissors.

Template for length: measure a comfortable bracelet size on the wrist

you are making this for, and make yourself a knotted string or loop-

end piece of wire, or marked piece of paper to be your guideline on

the length of the bracelet.

Note that the beading is done with one string in four rows; the

knotwork is an effect of the color pattern.

Your first row will be to the template length, adjusted to the next

three beads of a color. Start with three beads, and make a loop of

nine beads of one color, tie a knot, and go back through the first

three beads, and continue on the length, three each of the three

colors in sequence, A A A B B B C C C until you get to the length

you want. End in a threesome that is a different color than your first

threesome out of the loop at the other end. Make a button of three

beads up, two back around and go up the “three up” beads again,

and come down with a new two beads, up the “three up again, and

down and around until you’re content that those seven beads make a

solid button.

For the second row, you’ll begin building up both the knotwork

pattern and the increases that make the piece spiral: from the center

bead of a color trio, come up and add two beads of that color plus

one of the next color, and stitch through the center bead of the next

color. Add two beads of that color and one of the third color, and

come down in the center bead of the third color trio. Continue this

“two up, one down” pattern all the way to the end of bead trios, run

a loop of your thread around inside the bead-loop at this end of the

bracelet, and come back, coming out of the middle bead of the first

loop of the second row.

Any time you come to the end of your working thread, tie a knot and

thread the tail back along inside the beadwork before cutting it off.

For row three, add three of a color, and two of color you’re about to

stitch through at the top or middle of the second row’s three beads.

Continue this “three up, two down” in the direction of your stitching,

all the way to the end, loop your thread through the end button and

come back up the end edge and add seven beads of one color for the

final looping row, going back the other direction. You should have a

knotwork braid of the colors, and the work will have already begun to

spiral with the addition of beads in every row. The diagram here

shows the beading pattern - the actual work will naturally coil up

when laid out. Enjoy!

Original article reprinted from

WayzGoose Magazine: A Feast of Arts and Letters,

Vol. 1, Issue 2 ,

which is available for $6 / copy from

Ruth Temple, 3364 21st Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

http://wayzgoose.rulise.net

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