Inventing Bead Polyhedra
Chinese beaders of centuries past gave the world a fantastic invention: by rendering geometric structures in beads. In this article, beading historian Valerie Hector discusses an early example of such a Chinese beaded bead made during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
who invented three-dimensional peyote stitch?
There was a time when flat or two-dimensional peyote stitch was all anyone knew. Until ca. 1800 BC, that is, when the ancient Egyptians invented three-dimensional peyote stitch, a game-changing advance..