Anna of A Rose by Name http://arosebyname.etsy.com is a precision beader who beads as a therapy for stress and her work has a meditative calm. Her style is intricate and geometric, and extremely well-crafted.
Above is her "Blue Moon" a 2 1/2 inch glass votive holder, completely encased in peyote stitched Delica beads. The deep cobalt blue of these beads reallys glow when a tea light is burning. There are well over 4,000 beads in this piece.
This business card case has a subtle shimmer created by weaving almost 5,400 Delica beads in white, silver-lined pink, silver-lined antique lavendar and silver-lined deep burgundy. It is finished off with an ivory white etched French button.
The piece above was Anna's entry into the Etsy BeadWeaver Challenge for September 2007. The theme was "Show Your Colors" and she used a gemstone pallette in wine, cherry, topaz, green, moss, eletric blue, midnight blue, dark violet and blue-magenta; all surrounded in metallic silver. The piece is finished off with a square of beads for a toggle.Anna is a member of three Etsy Street Teams: Etsy BeadWeavers Street Team: http:/etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com, Cleveland Rocks Etsy Street Team: http://clevelandrocksetsy.blogspot.com, BBEST - Boomers & Beyond Etsy Street Team: http://boomersandbeyond.blogspot.com
She also participates in the "90 Features in 90 Days Challenge" and posts daily interviews of ETSY artists and designers at http://arosebyname.blogspot.com/.
