Tessellations

otherwise known as twisted dots

This subindex page collects my posts on tessellated beads, which are also commonly called twisted dot (for the technique) or harlequin (for the shape, which is generally diamond like). As I've noted ad nauseum, Lani Ching is perhaps the best known beadmaker working in this technique. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, neither she nor her husband James Allen Jones have a website, though her work has been published in a number of places. She has a brief demo of the twisted dot technique in Cindy Jenkins' Beads of Glass.

Nor am I the only person to be awed and inspired by her work; so has Terri Caspari Schmidt.

4 tessellation beads Originally posted 06oct06

 

Twisted dot bead Originally posted 29aug06

 

This post is actually in the Howto directory, but I include it to show an example of tesselated beads. Some day I plan to add more. Originally posted 19dec05, indexed here 29aug06

 

file created 29aug06