A great book about dimensional jewelry in peyote stitch is the ''Shaped Beadwork & beyond'' by Diane Fitzgerald.
The beaded ball of Diane Fitzgerald was inspired by the Temari balls, popular japanese toys, which turned into a traditional art form.
A Temari bead is composed by twenty triangles,
each triangle is usually formed by four rows (picture 1)
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- Zip due to connector beads, five triangles together, to form a pentagon (picture 3)
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- Zip the next five triangles to the pentagon, to form a star, and obtain half temari bead (pictures 4-5)
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- Make an identical star, add connector beads (picture 6),
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picture 6
and zip the two pieces together as in pictures 7
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picture 7c
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picture 7d
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