Sherri Serafini's beaded jewelry makes her breathless. One cannot but admire the talent and skill of this artist.

They have been embroidering with beads for a long time. Noble ladies spent hours on this work, embroidering various objects, most often they were handbags, belts, paintings. Icons were embroidered with beads and pearls. Bead embroidery is a very laborious and time-consuming process, it takes a long time, but what is the result!

Sherri Serafini is an American bead jewelry designer. Possessing a unique imagination, she creates works of art that have repeatedly won many international beading competitions.



Her works are amazing and original bead jewelery... Some of them resemble jewelry that came out of the past centuries, you look at them as if at a museum rarity that archaeologists accidentally found somewhere, and it belonged to some famous empress or an ancient beauty princess ...

Sherri Serafini first trained as a graphic designer at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. After working for some time in the advertising department of the newspaper, Sherri got married and gave birth to her eldest daughter. It was in the early 90s, and in 1997, a tragic accident changed her life.

Sherri's mother was involved in a car accident and found herself in dire straits. Sherri devoted a long time to caring for her mother, and, being near the hospital bed, began to make her first attempts at beaded needlework. Mom recovered, and Sherri acquired a new business, to which she devotes all her free time after the family.



Sherri works almost 24 hours a day, she gets up early - at 4 o'clock in the morning in order to have time to do household chores, and then quickly do what she loves. Beading has long been a lifelong affair for her, except, of course, for her beloved daughters.

Modern beaded embroidery is quite different from the one that was earlier, in terms of the technique of execution and the materials used. How and what modern craftswomen use, Sherri Serafini tells in his master classes. She developed new embroidery techniques using natural materials.

Sherry uses in her works not only beads, but also Swarovski crystals, natural stones and pearls, leather, suede, velvet, as well as natural materials and sequins. In the color palette, she is attracted by natural brown shades. Most of all, she dislikes red.



Her beaded masterpieces are familiar to many. Beaded jewelry has become an integral part of the style of many bohemians. They are worn by world famous people, artists, musicians. Steven Tyler is a big fan of Sherri's talent. He wears a beaded design on jeans that Sherri did. The craftswoman spent about a year making two leather belts for Stephen Tyler. She also did the stage set for the Aerosmith concert.

Sherri Serafini's works are unique. Photos of her designer jewelry can be seen on the covers of the most popular magazines. Among the works of the craftswoman you can find bracelets and necklaces, rings and earrings, bags and belts made of beads.

Sherri Serafini's jewelry for a special occasion, they will decorate an evening gown or create a unique image of an Egyptian or Scythian beauty.



How are these masterpieces created? Sherri Serafini just starts to weave, and everything happens by itself. "I never plan."



Sherri is boldly experimenting. Since about 2013, in combination with beads, Sherri began to use the shibori technique. Success was not long in coming, and today many contemporary artists, following Sherri, began to use the shibori technique in beading.

Shibori is a Japanese silk dyeing technique, characterized by the peculiarity of folding or even twisting the material when dyed, which gives uneven color shades on the fabric. Modern dyes allow you to create a large color palette. The Japanese used this technique as early as the 8th century.

In addition to beads, she enjoys returning to her roots - drawing 2D drawings, papier-mâché and illustration.

For 20 years, Sherri Serafini has made not only unique jewelry from beads, she is the author of many books on beadwork, although she herself still no, no, and will open her favorite book "The New Beadwork", which became for her a textbook and now a source of inspiration.