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.
How I got from dotties to harlequins . (With some minor not-quite-friday-fugly-worthy efforts along the way.) Here are some originally posted 18dec09. 18dec2009
I love making twisted dot beads, aka harlequins . Here are some originally posted 17dec09. 17dec2009
4 tessellation beads Originally posted 06oct06 07oct2006
Three files, originally posted 19dec05 , 29aug06 , and 06oct06 currently comprise the tessellation/twisted-dot subindex, created 29aug06 06oct2006
Twisted dot bead Originally posted 29aug06 29aug2006
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 19dec2005
file created 29aug06
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