Canku Ota
	(Many Paths)
	An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
	March 24, 2001 - Issue 32
	Beading Series-Part 3
	by Lynne Sageflower Pennington

This is the third installment of the beading series, the technique I will be talking about is Rosettes. Rosettes can be used to adorn clothing, hair decorations and dance regalia. You can have different shaped rosettes. Some are round, oval, a centerpiece with extensions on the sides and some are other geometrical shapes. There are different ways to make and bead them, below I have given a three of the ways that I have found to be the easiest and fastest for beading them. The size of the rosette depends on the project you are doing. Some Advice: Before doing any beading project make sure you are using uniform beads (beads that are the same shape and form). The ones you buy in Craft stores are not always uniform in size when you purchase them in the bags. However some craft stores carry beads that are in the tube, these most likely are uniform size beads. The best bead sizes to use are, 11, 12, and 13. It is best to purchase these size beads from Beading catalogs or Trading Posts. When I am working on a project in which I need to make several rosettes I purchase several hanks at one time, this way I am assured all my colors are the same shade. Rosette Techniques If you are making a rosette for the first time I advise you to follow the first technique on a separate piece of material or leather until you get use to making them. The First Technique:

Find the center of your material. After threading your needle, come up from the underside of the material and string a bead onto the thread. Bring the needle back down into the material as close to where you brought needle up from the underside. Bring the needle back up just to the outside of the bead about half a beads width. Second round String 7 more beads onto your thread, wrap them around the center bead. Pass the needle thru the first bead and pull the thread tight. After tack the circle down the other beads in that row. Third round String as many beads you need to go around the second round then repeat b & c above. Continue this process until you reach the width rosette you want. The Second Technique:

Embroider or Appliqué your design in the middle of you material. Draw a circle around the design. Starting with the outside, using the couching stitch bead the outside edging. Now once you have the outside beading done, start beading around the inside using the embroidery stitch or lazy stitch. The Third Technique:

Draw a circle the size of the rosette you want. Now draw three other circles within that circle, each one going down in size until you have a small circle in the center. Starting with the second circle in the center. use the lazy stitch and go completely around the circle. Beading the Edge After you have your rosette finished and cut out you may want to add some fancy stitching around the edgings. Below are two techniques that you can do: Picot edging: Thread a needle with new thread, then bring the needle up from the underside into your material or leather about 1/16 from the edge of the rosette. String on one bead, then bring the needle back down into the material or leather, then back up into the center bead hole. String on two more beads, then bring the needle back down into the material or leather, then back up into the second beads center hole. String on the next bead and go about a half a widths bead then repeat #2 & 3 in a until you have completely gone around the rosette. Scalloped Edging: Thread a needle with new thread, then bring the needle up from the underside into your material or leather about 1/16 from the edge of the rosette. String on one bead, then bring the needle back down into the material or leather, then back up into the center bead hole. String on six more beads, then bring the needle back down into the material or leather, then back up into the sixth beads center hole. For the next set go over about 1/4 of an inch and start the next set. Continue to do this until you have completely gone around the rosette There are several other ways of edging your rosette. If you want to create your own design it is best to work it out on rosette graphic paper so you will be able to know how many beads you need to string of the colors of the design. There are not many sites on the web that teach how to make rosettes. The only blank pattern making graphic I found used squares so I searched for one using rounded beads. I friend sent one to me awhile back.

Rosette Graph Paper-You can print this and enlarge it later

Web Links- I could not find web sites mainly of this Technique but I found web site on the beading methods

Native American Beadwork: Modern Techniques http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/beads/art_bea2.html

Graph Paper- Aunt Molly has it divided into sections it may be easier to use for you.

Aunt Molly's BeadStreet http://home.flash.net/~mjtafoya/patterns.htm

Books INDIAN BEAD-WEAVING PATTERNS by Horace R. Goodhue Beads to Buckskins- Volumes 1 by Peggy Sue Henry Beadworking with Today's Materials by Loren and Donna Woerpel American Indian BeadWork by W. Ben Hunt and J.F. "Buck" Burshears Books by Design Originals Step By Step Beading # 3043 Santa Fe Beading # 2079 Glamour Beading # 2080

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