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09 All began with an exhibition on the increasingly rare of . How could young people be inspired?

The answer is simple: instead of showing amateurs how they fail at difficult techniques, give them something simple that rewards them with success. That's how this came about (more in the alt text). You can make such pendants with every precious you find! Fixed on a jeans scrap. At the end glued on cardboard for being stiff. 1/2

Zoom on a big red flower made with red sequins and bright yellow glass rocailles. Looking like an open form of a dahlia.The braid was vintage, a rest of a company producing costumes. The flowers made of sequins and beads were already machine-made but it's possible to work manually.
Zoom on one of the small yellow flowers: It shows that they used yellow sequins like discs on the fabric, fixed with a tiny white glass rocaille bead to give you the imagination of a small flower. It's quite easy to fix sequins like this: the needle must go through the hole of the bead. Nowadays you sew it with FireLine, a special thread as strong as fishing line and extremely fine.
The red, blue and yellow tiny pendants at the bottom of the rectangle are made with Czech glass facette beads and rocailles, threaded onto fine copper wire, which is twisted into tiny eyelets at the end. This prevents the beads from slipping off the wire and allows the upper eyelet to be sewn on.

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Braid, Anniversary Edition updated to improve Steam Deck OLED support (looks like Native Linux and macOS were shelved) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/braid-anniversary-edition-updated-to-improve-steam-deck-oled-support/