So I've been obsessed with bead-work lately, bead weaving in particular. Over the past few months I learned a couple Basic bead weaving stitches and practiced A LOT...

Over time I was able to make a colorful geometric collection of woven bead pieces to turn into jewelry. But before that happened I just wanted to play around with my pieces some more. Since I love fashion illustration and haven't done that in a while I decided to combine both passions and use my bead pieces over a hand drawn illustration to form dresses.. scroll down if you want to see the results:

Turquoise and Blue are one of my favorite color combos, the pattern is inspired by Bedouin tribal heritage BTW.

Close-up. You can see more details of the bead weaving here. And yes, the thread is still there since I needed it to finish the work!

Originally created as earrings these small pieces were fun to play around with.

I just love the texture of beads! I think it appears more from this angle.

Typical tribal hexagon serving as the center piece here.

And one final close-up