Great Beaders Around the world - SONOKO NOZUE

Goodmorning friends, 

   While surfing the internet this morning I stumbled on a great Japanese beader SONOKO NOZUE, she took my breath away with her awesome and beautiful beadwork,  I appreciate God for the talent he has bestowed upon her, and Japanese beaders in general,  they are really trying.

SONOKO NOZUE

According to Amazon.com

     Sonoko Nozue was Born in Tokyo in 1945, she resides in Japan.
Graduated from the College of Humanities and Science, Nihon University, in 1968, with majors in Japanese and Japanese literature.
She Began teaching bead classes in Nagoya in 1995.
She's the President of Bead Salon Sonoko, a group whose activities include organizing workshops taught by the author, producing commissioned beaded pieces for special exhibitions, and participating in events that promote beading in Japan and stimulate interest in this field.
In 2006, became the first foreign instructor at the Bead&Button Show. Since then, has attended this event every year. Her beadwork won the Bead Dreams Finalist in the Seed Beads Wearable category in both 2005 and 2007.
She Taught at Bead Art Show Kobe in 2006, and Bead Art Show Yokohama in 2007. In the same year, taught the workshop "CREATE YOUR STYLE with CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements" at the Japan Hobby Show.
She Served as a judge for the Bead Grand Prix competition sponsored by Yomiuri newspaper and the Japan Art Accessories Association.
Supervised the bead crochet correspondence course taught by the Japan Art Accessories Association.

Sonoko Nozue wrote Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue: 25 Jewelry Designs from a Master Artist it was published by lark crafts in 2012.

 Here are some of her beautiful beadworks and also the front cover of   Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue, see them after the cut.

INTRO-DUCING GLITZ LEAVES

DESIGN NAME: Glitz leaves.

TYPE OF STITCH: St Petersburg stitch and spiral rope. 

COLOUR: Red and Gold. 

TYPE OF BEAD USED: Size 2 seed bead.

What do think about this awesome design? 

Dont forget to leave a comment.

Happy Beading, 

Tomisin.   

Hiiiiiiiii

      

        It's been a while, it's not that I am not beading, just an awful lot to do and not enough time, besides am battling with so many things here. 

   

My beading table is so filled up with a lot of project, you know how greedy I can be with bead projects, jumping from one project to another without completing one.

        Been playing around with a couple of stitches lately,  especially the ever versatile peyote stitch, I tell you, the possibilities with peyote stitch are endless.  Trying to bezel my cabochons, using peyote stitch,   I hope it came out fine.

    On my last post about my beading table,  I told you I was making some peyote/herringbone triangles, am through with it, but I didnt make it into a necklace,  I turned it into a brooch, still dont know what neckpiece to attach it too.

Lol...how come I have a gold colour in my brooch, I guess every mistake
is a design. 

     I have some leaves on that table,  ready to be  attached to a spiral rope,  made 35 leaves, it took me 3 days to make those leaves (laziness.....lol), it wasn't easy, I must tell you,  doing the same thing over and over again, it was tiring and I hate it, I hope it will come out fine when I get to put them together, "it better be fine...lol" .

So what are you making right now? 

Share your project with me on my facebook page  BEADGLITZ NG 

Thanks to those that have shared, it really means  a lot to me.

Happy beading,

Tomisin. 

My beading Table

Good day everyone, 

        It's been a long time, so sorry about my style of blogging, very slow, as many people have pointed it out to me, its due to a lot of reason, am so sorry, I guess am pardoned.  
       So I got this beautiful beads on my table, Yellow and Black size 3 seed beads, and am making this awesome design with it, herringbone/Peyote Triangle, am going to be making three of them, and I want to make them into a necklace,  although I have no idea how am going to do that, maybe I will just suspend them on a herringbone collar.  I just hope its going to be beautiful,  I have no doubt about that though. 

What's on your beading table right now? 

TUTORIAL: SPIRAL ROPE

 

    Spiral rope stitch is one of the most versatile stitches we have, very simple to make, if I must say and unique in its own way. It can be used for necklace, bracelet, even bag straps.

    There are so many variation you can use that make it looks different every time.

The basic spiral rope is made up of two section, the core, and the outer spiral rows which wraps around the bead.

MATERIALS:

1. Size 3 seed bead which is the core bead.

2.  Size 2 seed bead which  is the outside bead.

3.   0.25 fishing line.

4.  Beading Needle. 

PROCEDURE:

1. cut a comfortable length of fishing line, insert a stop bead and a needle, leaving about six inches tail.

2.  pick up four core bead and four outside bead.

3. Stitch up your needle through the four core bead, and pull snug.

    

4.  pick up one core bead and four outside bead.

5.  Stitch your needle up through three of the core beads from the previous step and the new core bead just added, pull snug.

6. Use your thumb to push the new outside beads over to the side so that they rest next to the first set of outside beads.

7. Repeat from step 4, untill you reach your desired length. 

    like I said earlier, there are so many variation of Spiral rope stitch,  for this particular variation, ( see the picture after the cut)

OWANBE: RAW COLLAR

    She called me yesterday,  she wants a very beautiful and unique piece for OWANBE, and she will be making use of it today,   wow!!! how am I going to do that, all the unique designs I know are time consuming, how am I going to give her the best within this short time, "hmmmm"  after thinking for a while, I settled for this RAW COLLAR.
See it after the cut,

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