Stitched-Together Pencils Evolve Into Beastly Sculptures

wired.com — Before pencils, Maestre was originally building with nails and a liquid rubber-type glue. She started to worry about inhaling all the toxic fumes, however, and began to experiment with different techniques until she settled on beading. Her method of choice? The peyote stitch. May 2, 2008 View in Crawl 4