Catriona Starpins Studio
About Catriona Starpins
Catriona teaches eager students the fine art of bead embroidery and beadweaving. Classes are run in person and online via zoom, giving her students a creative outlet and a way to pause from their busy lives. After a class with Catriona, students can wear their creations with pride letting others know where they learnt such wonderful beading skills.
Her background as a costumier and milliner allows Catriona to showcase these individual skills learned by consistently delivering unique and delightful wearable art creations. Catriona's beadwork is always finished to a superior quality and quite often takes beading to the next dimension.
For those who do not like to create themselves, Catriona designs one off unique beadwork. Her award winning designs are known for being real show stoppers that empower the wearer to stand out from the crowd.
Featured products
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10mm Round Domed Glass Cabochon Orange
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10mm Round Domed Glass Cabochons Gold Crackle
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10mm Square Button with two holes, backlit blue, set of 2
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11mm Square Black Plastic Button, pack of 6
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12mm Round Dome Glass Cabochon with Silver Hologram Bubbles on Black Background
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12mm Round x 7mm high Dome Glass Cabochon Metallic Bubbles
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12mm Square Dome Glass Cabochon Metallic Bubbles
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12mm Square Dome Glass Cabochon with Silver Hologram Bubbles on Black Background
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Unboxing Cranberry Colour Boxes on YouTube
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Bead Society of Victoria Bead Challenges
2015 Bead Challenge WinnersThe BSV Bead Challenge is an annual competition where all entrants start with an identical basic set of beads. Each Year Catriona likes to participate in the BSV Bead Challenge. Her award winning pieces can be viewed on the BSV website
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Battle of the Beadsmith
Battle of the Beadsmith on FacebookSince 2012, Beadsmith have invited hundreds of artists to participate in a single-elimination beading "tournament" widely known as Battle of the BeadSmith, or B.O.T.B. Participating artists are given approximately eight weeks to design, create, photograph, and present an original piece of wearable beadwork. Their creation is then randomly paired in "battle" with designs by their talented peers. There is no prize for winning the Battle of the BeadSmith. Contestants create simply because it's what they LOVE to do!
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The Bead Square Project
The Bead Square ProjectThe Beaded Square Project is a collaborative community project where each participant created a 6 inch by 6 inch square of beadwork. These individual squares were mailed to the Museum of Beadwork to build a bead-based ‘quilt’. The project highlights the shared experiences of isolation, quarantine, and the many societal changes that occurred during 2020.
The squares are being housed at the Museum of Beadwork in Portland, ME where they are beginning the process of accessioning, photography, curation, and final construction of the exhibit that will be on view once we are open to the public in 2022.
