I've been making curliQs —technicall spirals—for a very long time. I think I was originally inspired by a philosophy prof who also liked to doodle—his were very elaborate multi-colored doodles that were a favorite pastime during department meetings. Mine have tended to be monochromatic, and, until I started working with glass, executed only with pen on paper.
Glass trailing, however, lends itself to curvilinear motions, so then I started making three dimensional doodles on beads. The biggest difficulty is that working thin stringer makes technical demands (e.g. stringer melts before I'm ready to put it down) that I overcame with pen approximately by the time I was three or four.
But challange is good, no?
This post is mostly a sales pitch, but you can ignore that and look at the pretty picture of the very first type of bead I had published, in the 2003 October issue of Beadwork, as I recall. 14jun2006
Designer curliQs . 27jan2006
An unusual series of beads, inpsired by the roughness and iridescence of ancient roman glass . 29nov05. See also this necklace originally posted 19jul06 which includes similar beads made of plate glass. 29nov2005
This is a howto, but features curliQs 22may2004
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