Baker / Goldstine Crafting Conundrums

Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4665-8849-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers alike, Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods, challenges, and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs. Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a project may choose to skip ahead to the pattern pages and begin crocheting from an abundance of unique, mathematically inspired designs. Those wishing to design their own patterns will find many useful tools, template patterns, and a new methodology for understanding how to do so even without using math. Puzzle lovers without previous knowledge of bead crochet will also find ample inspiration for learning the craft.

The first part of the book describes the basic requirements and constraints of a bead crochet pattern and explains what makes designing in this medium so tricky. The authors present their new design framework and offer insight on how best to approach design choices and issues unique to bead crochet.

The second part presents a series of bead crochet design challenges informed by colorful bits of mathematics, including topology, graph theory, knot theory, tessellations, and wallpaper groups. Each chapter in this section begins with a design puzzle accompanied by an introduction to the mathematical idea that inspired it. The authors then discuss what made the challenge difficult, present some of their solutions, and describe the thinking and ideas behind their approach.

The final part contains nearly 100 original bead crochet patterns, including solutions to all the design challenges. This part also provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of bead crochet technique.

Behind the deceptively simple and uniform arrangement of beads is a subtle geometry that produces compelling design challenges and fascinating mathematical structures. In color throughout, Crafting Conundrums gives both math enthusiasts and crafters an innovative approach to creating bead crochet patterns while addressing a variety of mathematically inspired design questions. Supplementary materials, including demo videos, are available on the book’s CRC Press web page.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Ellie

Goldstine, Susan

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Design Framework
Exploring the Bead Plane

Torus Basics
Flat Layouts

The Infinite Bead Plane

Hockey-Stick Translations

Repeat Translations

Lattices and Tilings

Designing in the Bead Plane

Extracting a Repeat From a Bead Plane Diagram

Twists

Cropping Visualization and the Limits of Physical Twists

New Design Challenges

Design Challenges
Seven-Color Tori

Geometric Cross Sections

One More Challenge: Möbius Bands

Faceted Bracelets: Another Design Springboard

Torus Knots

Construction Using Physical Twists
Construction Using Natural Twists

Combining Patchworks and Twists

Knotted and Linked Bracelets
Celtic Knots: Another Design Springboard

Escher Designs

Deforming Polygonal Tilings
Assembling Shaped Tiles
Generating Tiles from Lattices
Growing Symmetric Tilings
Escher Transformations: Another Design Springboard

Wallpaper Groups

Identifying Wallpaper Groups
Wallpaper Groups in the Bead Plane

Designing Wallpaper Bracelets

Instructions and Patterns
How to Bead Crochet

Pattern Selection

Stringing

Starting
Crocheting

Closing

Joining New Thread
Tips for Transformation Designs

Resources

Pattern Pages