Talk:Beadwork

New wiki
I have just started a new wiki at Craftacular.com. It runs on the same software as wikipedia, but the goal is a little different.

I am working to make it a central resource for all things related to crafts. A central, on-line repositiory of patterns, techniques, tutorials, tip & tricks, etc that people can use as a resource. It will be a place that encourages opinions. I'm (obviously) just getting started, but I'm reaching out to crafters to ask them if they'd be willing to contribute some of their expertise or help me get the word out.

I appreciate any help that you can lend. It's going to take a lot more people than just myself to get this baby up to its full potential.

Also, please let me know if this comment is unwelcome. It's my understanding from reading wikipedia's rule/terms of use that this would be an appropriate place for a post like this. Thanks!

Techniques
I have a site Beading Techniques and Tutorials that features different type of online tutorial for different basic beading techniques from Peyote Stitch, Brick Stitch, Square Stitch, Right Angle Weave, African Helix, Bead Netting, Triangle Weave, Bead Cross Stitch / Beadpoint, Bead Loom Work Weaving, Appliqué beadwork Bead Embroidery to individual themed projects. All free to share and readily online without the need to download. Thanks for consideration of my personal site.

where can I make a useful contribution
As Davis says, there is another wiki with information, but there are a lot of gaps in this Wikipedia article. I'd like to see it develop. I'm not a beading professional, but I do have more than a knowledge of the basics and would be happy to do anything I can. Should major contributions go in a Sandbox or just straight on the page? --Hikinghotsauce 22:04, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * With the information that's here right now, just put it on the page. It can't hurt. JDub90 16:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to add that I have found one of the better bead suppliers, particularly when it comes to quality beads and historic beads is WaltersBeads.com. Low prices, but just as important, many hard to get early beads.Good Source

This may help you
http://www.create-jewelry.com has easy tutorials if you would like to learn the different beading techniques, as well as other methods for creating jewelry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Desphynx (talk • contribs) 06:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merger, European_beadwork to Beadwork.
I propose that European_beadwork be merged into this article because both articles are extremely small, and we could reasonably have sections about traditional beadwork from various specific countries in this article. Evening Scribe (talk) 07:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Linkspam
Although the beadwork article could certainly use expansion, the proper way to do it is not by inserting an external link to a hobbyist website. Nor is it appropriate to write up a promotional paragraph, attempting to source it to the same unreliable hobbyist website. Beading enthusiasts who are interested in improving this article are welcome to cite the conventional books, magazines, and other traditional sources from which they gained their knowledge and skills. Changing IP addresses and creating throwaway accounts to reinsert the same material, however, is more likely to cause this article to be protected from editing. Please come there with the intention of improving encyclopedic content rather than your website's traffic. Durova Charge! 19:43, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Seriously, a topic this broad could go somewhere, if people didn't keep posting their "crafting smut" around here. This is an online encyclopedia, not a list of links of where to buy supplies. --Cammy169 (talk) 14:43, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

African Beadwork
I believe that there is huge amount of work and substance to be carried under African Beadwork, can you consider carrying information around African Beadwork.This type of beadwork is generally always handmade, beautiful and very colourful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabermanjoo (talk • contribs) 18:27, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

European beadwork
In the second paragraph of the section headed "European Beadwork," the last sentence is lacking a date or narrow time period. If anyone knows what it is, perhaps he or she could add that information.CorinneSD (talk) 21:20, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Needs a subsection on Czech glass beads among other types.--Cammy169 (talk) 16:37, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Native American beadwork
Does anyone have a citation to artifact dating and beadwork colour and style? There's a little about different Nations having different styles, which is correct. I wanted to add information about different colours having not only different significance but also being very handy to history. Thanks! Abesottedphoenix (talk) 01:51, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

I am writing about a recent edit to the last paragraph in this section. An editor with only an IP address and no Talk page undid an edit I had made a few days previously. I would have liked to address this person on his or her Talk page, but it does not exist. I added "shell beads" after "These" in the last sentence. I want to revert the "undo" and put it back to "These shell beads" but I don't want to start an edit war. In this case, I believe I am correct. The demonstrative pronoun "These" is ambiguous because there are three plural nouns in the previous sentence: "shells", "beads", and "parts". Even though this editor may know that "These" refers to "shell beads", not every reader will know this. Ambiguity is not a good quality in the kind of writing that should be used in Wikepedia articles. Adding the noun phrase "shell beads" after "These" removes the ambiguity. If I do not hear from this anonymous editor, I will revert it soon.CorinneSD (talk) 16:22, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm curious about how we know that European beads have been in the Americas for five centuries and yet there is no citation/source. --Cammy169 (talk) 14:39, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Second paragraph on 3D beadwork: suggested correction
In my sandbox User:Geometricjewels/sandbox, I have suggested a drastic change to the second paragraph on 3D bead weaving because that contains a few errors. Does anyone have opinions on that, please? Geometricjewels (talk) 16:28, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I see that the existing section is totally devoid of references, as is your proposed replacement. You need to provide references to published reliable sources.  Personal knowledge counts as original research, and is not acceptable as a basis for Wikipedia content.  If there are no published reliable sources to support it, that section should be removed from the article. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:08, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Geometricjewels (talk) 08:34, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I've changed the URL for your sandbox link to a wikilink. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:46, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Ancient Beading: Plagiarism
I clicked the source link (leading to an article titled "Faience Beads from Egypt"). Our section was copied and pasted word for word. Not cool.

Also, the quote about Cherokee beadwork. I copied that entire quote into Google, no current website besides wikipedia exists with that wording. So where did someone get it from?

I'm not a beader or big into the beading scene, but these shoddy sources and editing are really getting on my nerves. --Cammy169 (talk) 14:52, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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