Blue Grotto, Capri Island, Italy (1900) by Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: Library of Congress

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To much of my surprise and delight, 14mm rhinestones (rivolis and chatons) are really the magic size for inlaid hexagonal peyote. I shall explain.

The formula for regular (round) beaded bezels is 2.5x, x being the diameter of the rhinestone. The result is how many 11/0 Delica seed beads you start off with—if the result is odd, we choose the next even number. For the 14mm stones, the end result is 35, but we round up to 36.

Now, 36 is really a neat number. It's a multiple of two, three, four, six, nine, twelve, and eighteen. After we finish with the regular bezel we have a chance to embellish the edge. Peyote works so that there is half of the original number to bead on per row, so that is 18 beads to sew on the edge.

If we mark each third stitch with a different color, and use a slower increase than the traditional herringbone increase, we get a flat, slightly curving inlaid hexagonal icon that we can use for anything really. In my case, I'm doing this for this year's Battle of the Beadsmith. As the photo shows, I have so much more to go.

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Holy mackerel I haven't updated my latest beading stuffs!

Flower of Unknown Origin No.001 : A spin-off of my fractal art now in bead form. I have plans for this!

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Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

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Peyote, a spineless cactus, grows naturally in South Texas and in parts of northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Native American people. But those who use and study the plant say it's being threatened by loss of habitat through land conversion and resurgence in psychedelic use. #shorts #peyote #NAC #NativeAmerican

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2024/12/27/peyote-sacred-to-native-americans-is-being-threatened-video/

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Peyote, a cactus containing mescaline, is sacred to many Indigenous people. It's being threatened by over harvesting, drug decriminalization laws and psychedelic use. Members of the Native American Church agree the plant must be protected, but differ on how to accomplish this. (AP Video: Jessie Wardarski)

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Our Bursary Fund booklets (and Bead Society of Great Britain membership) are excellent Christmas gifts for beaders!

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