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Basic Bead-Stitch Orientation

for Brick/Peyote/Comanche
Copyright Rita Sova 2003

Brick
Hole Orientation

Beads are woven together


using the loops of thread
from previously worked
rows.

Comanche Peyote
Hole Orientation Hole Orientation

Looks like Brick and is sometimes


called the "Other" Brick stitch.
A BRICK graph page is turned 90
Beads are woven together by degrees (Landscape vs Portrait).
weaving through the beads (not
the loops of thread). Beads are woven together by
weaving through beads.

Color graphs set up for Brick can be stitched using the Comanche Stitch (the weaving
technique is different not the graph layout). Brick or Comanche color graphs can be
rotated 90 degrees and the pattern can then stitched using the Peyote Stitch. Peyote
graphs can be rotated 90 degrees and the Brick stitch can be used.

Word Charts/Word Maps can not be adjusted in the same manner. Word
Maps/Word charts are words/text describing which and how many beads to pick up
when using a specific stitch.

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