But not this time! I finally found a tutorial that shows the difference, at a website called Native American Beadwork. They describe peyote as being a "unit of two" stitch and gourd as being a "unit of three" stitch. You can see the difference in these two pictures from the website.
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| Gourd stitch on the left, Peyote stitch on the right |
The Native American Beadwork website also offers some blank graph paper so that you can design your own patterns. There are two types - one with spirals descending to the right and one with spirals descending to the left. To get you started, here is a page at another website, Pow-Wows, that offers graphed patterns for some traditional designs.
I haven't used the stitch yet, but I have the tutorial on my "to-do" list, because I really want to give it a try.
Cat
3 comments:
Wow, I am not the only one that knew the difference and when I went to search for it to learn how to do it, all I got, (like you) was the peyote stitch. Even the experienced beaders said they were the same. I only have found a very few sites that recognized the difference. NOW on to searching for tutorials! Thank you for your post!
Thanks Cheri. I hope you have fun with it!
My name is D.J.. I am a professional pen maker and beader. I am glad you have clearly made the distinctions with the peyote and the gourd stitch. I use gourd stitch on all my pieces. There is a book that I picked up long ago you might like. It was very informative and vert technical. Its called "NATIVE AMERICAN BEADWORK" from George J. Barth. ISBN 0-936984-12-0. The book is paperback. It shows all forms of Native american beadwork.
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