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Japanese<br />
Beadwork<br />
with<br />
<strong>sonoko</strong> <strong>nozue</strong><br />
25<br />
Jewelry Designs<br />
from a<br />
Master Artist<br />
“ These exquisitely beautiful jewelry designs capture the<br />
delicacy and grace of the Japanese aesthetic for both<br />
novice and experienced beaders to enjoy.”<br />
— Diane Fitzgerald
LARK<br />
JEWELRY & BEADING<br />
beadweaving master class<br />
JAPANESE<br />
BEADWORK<br />
WITH<br />
SONOKO NOZUE<br />
25<br />
Jewelry Designs<br />
from a<br />
Master Artist<br />
Asheville
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45 50 52<br />
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66 69 72<br />
C O N T E N T S<br />
introduCtion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Chapter 1: basiCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Materials and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Stitches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
Chapter 2: Casual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
Cheerful Midafternoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />
Shower of Blossoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
Dripping of the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
Waterdrops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
Sunflower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />
Chapter 3: FeMinine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
Sweet Breeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
Snow Crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />
Sonoko Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
Under the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />
Sonoko Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55<br />
Chapter 4: eleGant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />
Night Dew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />
Beach at Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />
Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />
Lily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
Breath of Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />
Milky Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
22<br />
Chapter 5: noble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80<br />
Snow White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />
Midnight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />
Powder Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />
Morning Glow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />
Chapter 6: GorGeous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />
Sound of Raindrops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />
Stone Pavement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />
Crystal Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />
Daisy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />
Sonoko Necklace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />
Author Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />
About Sonoko Nozue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127<br />
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127<br />
76 82<br />
84 86<br />
88<br />
94<br />
98 102<br />
107<br />
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Crystal rose<br />
In this design, I wrap a large crystal bead with a crocheted tube so that it<br />
becomes a flower-shaped form. It’s a great way to combine crochet and<br />
beadweaving. I taught this as a class at the Bead Art Show in Yokohama in 2008.<br />
SupplIeS<br />
Size 15° silver beads, 20 g<br />
Silver 11° Delicas, 0.7g<br />
1 crystal-colored rivoli, 27 mm<br />
(Swarovski elements 3015, Crystal)<br />
35 clear crystal bicones, 3 mm<br />
(Swarovski elements 5328, Crystal)<br />
2 silver bead caps<br />
Silver clasp<br />
Gray beading thread<br />
43¾ yards (40 m) of gray<br />
size 30 crochet thread<br />
Size 10 or 12 beading needles<br />
Big eye needle<br />
Crochet hook, size G-6 (4 mm) or<br />
H-8 (5 mm)<br />
Sharp snips<br />
StItCHeS<br />
Circular peyote<br />
Netting<br />
tubular Bead Crochet<br />
FINISHeD SIze<br />
19 inches (48.3 cm) long
Delica<br />
Thread continues<br />
to step 3, figure 4<br />
Row 11<br />
Row 10<br />
27-mm rivoli (put in after<br />
three rows of Delicas)<br />
70 size<br />
15° beads<br />
Thread continues to figure 2<br />
Row 2<br />
Row 1<br />
figure 1<br />
Row 4<br />
Row 3<br />
Thread<br />
continued<br />
from figure 1<br />
figure 2<br />
▶ Bezel<br />
1 Referring to figures 1 and 2 and using<br />
circular peyote stitch, weave 4 rows with<br />
size 15° beads, 3 rows with Delicas—when<br />
you finish the third row of Delicas, put in<br />
the rivoli to bezel around it—and then<br />
4 rows with size 15° beads. Keep peyote<br />
stitching with size 15° beads while enclosing<br />
the rivoli.<br />
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3-mm bicone<br />
2 Add netting embellishments by passing<br />
through the beads in row 6 (the second<br />
row of Delicas) using 15° beads and bicones,<br />
as shown in figure 3. After completing the<br />
netting, go through all the bicones two or<br />
three times to tighten them.<br />
▶ Loops<br />
3 Make two loops on the back side,<br />
through which you’ll insert the rope later.<br />
To make the first loop, pick up 36 size 15°<br />
beads on the remaining thread, and pass<br />
through the same bead again to make a<br />
loop, as shown in figure 4. Pass through<br />
the same bead path two or three more<br />
times to secure. Weave the working thread<br />
over by going through the beads in rows<br />
10 and 11. Make another loop as previously<br />
described. Set the piece aside.<br />
With a remaining thread, pass<br />
through all bicones to tighten<br />
Row 6 (second<br />
row of Delicas)<br />
figure 3<br />
Thread continued<br />
from step 1, figure 2<br />
Row 9<br />
Row 10<br />
Row 11<br />
figure 4<br />
36 beads
▶ Tube<br />
4 String 5,500 size 15° beads—that’s most of the<br />
20 grams—onto your crochet thread. Stitch tubular<br />
bead crochet with 7 chains in 1 round. Continue crocheting<br />
until you have a tube 9 ¾ inches (24.8 cm) long.<br />
Intertwine the tube as shown in figure 5, then join both<br />
ends as shown in figure 6. Cut the thread. The remaining<br />
beads on the cut-off thread will be used in step 6.<br />
5 Attach the bezel to the crocheted tube as described<br />
in figure 7.<br />
Where both ends butt together,<br />
join them as described in figure 6<br />
figure 5<br />
Match up both sides and<br />
pass through the beads so<br />
that they line up naturally<br />
figure 6<br />
Instead of hanging your beadwork from a<br />
rope, you can mount it onto a comb for a<br />
stunning hair ornament.<br />
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▶ Rope<br />
6 Make a rope of tubular bead crochet—<br />
with 7 stitches per round—that’s 17¾<br />
inches (45.1 cm) long.<br />
If you run out of crochet thread, thread a<br />
new length of crochet thread onto a big<br />
eye needle, then transfer over the beads<br />
that were originally strung.<br />
Once you reach the desired length, cut<br />
off the remaining crochet thread. Cut 3<br />
lengths of beading thread (not crochet<br />
thread); attach these to one end of the<br />
rope by zigzagging them through the<br />
tube beads, as shown in the bottom half<br />
of figure 8. Also attach 3 lengths of beading<br />
thread to the other end of the rope. On<br />
each end of the rope, pull all the threads<br />
through a bead cap; add 15° beads, half of<br />
the clasp, and more 15° beads (figure 8, top).<br />
Finish off the threads and run the rope<br />
through the loops made in step 3.<br />
Insert the needle from the front.<br />
Pick up the thread between the<br />
beads of the sixth row (second<br />
row of Delicas) and come out<br />
from the back. Go through 2 or<br />
3 adjacent size 15° beads of the<br />
tube, then come out from the<br />
front again. Repeat all around<br />
the bezel.<br />
Bezel<br />
Crocheted tube<br />
figure 7<br />
figure 8<br />
Clasp<br />
9 size 15° beads<br />
Bead cap
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Praise for<br />
Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue<br />
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Sonoko Nozue, Japan’s leading<br />
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years later, she was the first<br />
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to teach a Master class at<br />
that event.<br />
JAPANESE<br />
BEADWORK<br />
WITH<br />
SONOKO NOZUE<br />
25<br />
Jewelry Designs<br />
from a<br />
Master Artist<br />
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Twenty-fi ve beautiful, sleek, and sophisticated, yet still simple and wearable, project<br />
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fl ower—to Night Dew, a reversible bracelet featuring shimmering bicones.<br />
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“I was one of the fortunate workshop participants who studied with Sonoko, the preeminent Japanese<br />
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clear and concise illustrations in this comprehensive book. Sonoko’s brilliantly designed and refi ned<br />
work refl ects the Japanese aesthetic beautifully. This is a must-have book for any beader from<br />
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“Sonoko is a national asset for Japan and a treasure for the beading fi eld. Her expertise and masterful<br />
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“Many will recognize Sonoko from Bead&Button shows as the elegant lady in a lavish Japanese<br />
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will stand the test of time and can even become family heirlooms.” — Diane Fitzgerald<br />
“Sonoko Nozue is a master of graceful design. Her projects tantalize with lush texture, fi ne details,<br />
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Sonoko Nozue, Japan’s leading<br />
beader, began teaching at<br />
Bead&Button in 2005. Three<br />
years later, she was the fi rst<br />
international instructor invited<br />
to teach a Master Class at<br />
that event.<br />
ISBN 978-1-4547-0278-8