Disco Ball Beaded Bead

The Disco Ball beaded bead is a complex, tactile beaded bead, and it makes a beautiful pendant or focal bead. This beaded bead is woven using the triangle weave and netting stitches, and uses the geometry of an icosahedron; a uniform structure with twenty sides, where each side is an equilaterial triangle. The Disco Ball beaded bead can be created with pearls, glass beads, or stone beads, and the seed bead color pattern can be altered for a completely different look to the finished design. Pattern The Disco Ball beading pattern includes: 12 pages of step-by-step instructions. 45 full color illustrations and photographs. Several photos of finished jewelry and design variations. This pattern was written in 2009 and updated in 2011. Materials To stitch these beaded beads, you'll need: 4mm fire polish beads or freshwater pearls 15° Japanese seed beads Beading thread (6lb Fireline, KO, Miyuki beading thread, or One G)