beader

[bee-der]

noun

Carpentry.

1. a tool for forming beads on lumber.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beader¹

First recorded in 1880–85; bead + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Occasionally, Ms. Sahakian’s mother comes in and works as a beader.

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Given museum treatment, the exhibition’s costumes can finally be appreciated up close as the remarkable, wearable sculptures they are: the Tudor-meets-Rihanna outfits of Henry VIII’s wives from “Six,” bedazzled with 18,810 studs; the elaborate roping and beading of corsets for “The Lion King”; Miodrag Guberinic’s Medusa for Heartbeat Opera, with its laser-cut snake vertebrae; the intricate bead work for “Aladdin,” which occupied the beader Polly Kinney every day for nearly six months.

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Although McCleary is primarily a beader, she got her start sewing in high school.

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Candace Branson, an Alutiiq dancer, said she learned how to bead from Leona Haakanson-Crow, an experienced beader who also participated in the workshop.

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The event Nov. 7 is part of an intensive five-day workshop led by June Pardue, a master skin sewer and beader with family ties to the community of Old Harbor, according to an Alutiiq Museum news release.

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