Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery: More Peyote Stitched Jewelry

Directions

from Virginia:

• Take I-495 Capitol Beltway (I-495 Outer loop) towards Richmond/Alexandria.
• At exit 177B, take exit; stay LEFT towards US-1 - Alexandria/Old Town Alexandria.
• At light at the end of the exit ramp turn LEFT onto Route 1.(S. Patrick Henry Street).
• Turn RIGHT (East) onto King Street.
• Turn LEFT onto N. Union Street and the Torpedo Factory will be on your RIGHT.

from Maryland:

• Take I-495 (I-495 Inner loop) towards: I-95 - I-495 - Richmond/Alexandria.
• Go across Woodrow Wilson Bridge and enter into Virginia.
• Exit on 177C-B-A Ramp towards US-1.
• Keep LEFT to stay on the Ramp.
• At exit 177B take ramp RIGHT onto US-1 [S Patrick Henry Street] towards Alexandria / Arlington.
• Turn RIGHT (East) onto King Street; King Street will dead end onto Union Street.
• Turn LEFT and the Torpedo Factory will be on your RIGHT.

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Monday, November 15, 2010

More Peyote Stitched Jewelry

Peyote stitch is a very versatile beadwork stitch that can result in vastly different looking items of jewelry as handled by different fiber artists. Peyote stitch can be done flat, in a circle, in a tube, or in a variety of freeform manners.

Flat peyote stitch by Potomac Fiberarts Gallery member Mickey Kunkle is used to connect and/or surround resin elements to form a bracelet and a pair of necklaces.

Circular peyote stitch forms bezels for semiprecious gem elements in a necklace by Mickey Kunkle and a brooch by Gladys Seaward.

Joanne Bast uses tubular peyote stitching in a red necklace followed by tubular earrings by Joanne Bast and Emma Bednar.

A pair of earrings by Mickey Kunkle uses triangular peyote stitch.

My favorite of all is peyote stitch used in a freeform manner. No two examples turn out the same. Freeform bracelet, earrings and necklaces by Gladys Seaward: