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The Dharma Bead Ball is artful, airy, and highly lightweight, resembling a honeycomb structure. It's super easy to master. You can make your first Dharma Bead Ball in an hour or less. In this video, I use sterling silver bugle beads measuring 6 mm long x 1.5 mm wide or so. Glass bugle beads will not work because they'll crack as you reinforce. Metal bugle beads are probably best. Possibly some strong plastic beads too. You'll need 108 bugle beads for 1 Dharma Ball.

The Backstory of the Dharma Bead Ball

I invented this structure by accident many years ago. But I've never taught it until now. Does it correspond to a known geometric structure? I'm not sure. It's made of 32 hexagons and 6 squares, stitched in 5 rows forming 38 interlocking cells. I used to call this the "Lantern" bead. But when I counted the number of beads, I got a surprise: there are exactly 108 beads. As it happens, 108 is one of my favorite numbers because it's the number of beads on a strand of Buddhist prayer beads. Why 108? Because in Buddhist dharma or teaching, there are 108 human passions that clutter one's path to enlightenment. Hinduism and Jainism also revere the number 108 for other reasons.

"Dharma" is a Sanskrit word meaning "path of righteousness" or "cosmic law and order" or more simply, "right conduct" or "teaching."

For these reasons, "Dharma Bead Ball" seems far more appropriate than "Lantern Bead Ball.”

Time stamps:
Introduction - 0:09
Row 1 - 1:44
Row 2 - 9:30
Rows 3-4 - 34:26
Stitching a Cap to a Dharma Bead Ball - 26:39

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