Crossword clues for beadwork
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beadwork \Bead"work`\, n. Ornamental work in beads.
Wiktionary
n. decorative work involving beads.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them with a sewing needle or beading needle and thread or thin wire, or sewing them to cloth. Beads come in a variety of materials, shapes and sizes. Beads are used to create jewelry or other articles of personal adornment; they are also used in wall hangings and sculpture and many other artworks.
Beadwork techniques are broadly divided into loom and off-loom weaving, stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, and bead knitting.
Beads, made of durable materials, survive in the archaeological record appearing with the very advent of modern man, Homo sapiens.
Beads are used for religious purposes, as good luck talismans, for barter, and as curative agents.
Usage examples of "beadwork".
Usually a woman passes her skills on to her children and grandchildren but Fralie has no time, and not much interest in working leather -- she likes stitching and beadwork -- and she has no daughters.
Ayla was sewing the finishing beadwork onto the white leather tunic when she heard a commotion from the Fox Hearth.
Of course, they also looked at the fancy beadwork designs that flowed all over him.
Oh, and I also have a beadwork clip and a bag of earrings I was hoping to sell.
She was dressed similarly, save she sported bracelets and beadwork necklaces.
Her hobbies include needlework, jewelry design, beadwork, and dollmaking.
She found an elegant black knit with subtle beadwork and a softly flaring skirt and slipped it on, then stepped into her high-heeled black pumps.
The climb made his heart quicken in his ears and brought a light beadwork of sweat to his lower lip.
Around them every inch of deck was occupied, yet room continued to be found for late arrivals, whole families happily wedged into openings barely larger than a telephone booth, dozing babies dangled in beadwork carriers from hooks in the overhead beams.
The Brazilian girl on the ship told me that she had gone with her family to see a native village, and bought beadwork there, and carvings.
The trouble was that the beadwork was so heavy that it made Lottie want to sit down, and so fragile that she was frightened of doing so.
Philly, looking downward, tracing with a trembling finger the pattern of the beadwork on the ottoman before which she knelt, listened with an inward shiver of dismay and ecstasy.
Middle Border Museum and Oscar Howe Art Center, which displays American Indian beadwork and porcupine quillwork.
Gute wore a pendant necklace, anklets, and headband of intricate metallic beadwork, and worn but serviceable shoes.
The beadwork was almost the only thing that made her stand out against the dirty wall.