Joan Stocker, 85, beads a precisely 56,360-piece hawk
SMT photo/Sara Eisinger. Joan Stocker designs bracelets with size-11 delicate glass Japanese beads during a demonstration at Heritage Festival in Bryson City Saturday afternoon. She will be back in Bryson City celebrate and sell at Freedom Fest.
SMT photo/Sara Eisinger. Joan Stocker of Beubelot Beading displays a black capped chickadee made from 17,026 beads from her vendor booth at Heritage Festival in Bryson City Saturday afternoon. Stocker’s favorite thing about bead art is being able to touch it.
Beads and string in hand, Joan Stocker looked downward at thousands of size 11 delicate glass Japanese beads, demonstrating how to bead bracelets at the Heritage Festival Saturday afternoon.
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