Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !

Dearest Everyone around the globe,

From our small village of Taman on the island of Bali, We are so happy to have this wonderful opportunity to send you all our special greetings for your Fabulous Christmas and a very prosperous New Year.

May your special Holidays and New Year will be filled up with lots of love, happiness and prosperity.

Best Wishes,

Bali Beadwork Center.

Ni Luh Tiari Big Basket!

Ni luh Tiari, our 11 years old beader has just finished her big basket and love to share her works with everyone. She is so excited to get her first big basket done after about 6 months since she was starting the work but she haven't got a chance to bead it the whole time.

W= 40 cm H = 30 cm
Weight = 2 kg

Price = US $ 147.5

New Jumbo Basket

It is our new Jumbo beaded cupu with the size of 50 cm in diameter and 40 cm of height. It is hand beaded by Yanthi, one of our professional beader and it took her about 6 months to get this one done. Well, of course that she doesn't do it 24/7 as she has to look after her baby and family but she did put most of her time to create this beautiful work. It is truly a passionate work of art..

The Bali Blues!

Oval & Round Basket

Our New Beaded Basket!

We are so happy to share with you our new works and having our workshop on going. It is getting more fun to play around with the seed beads and we hope to be able to present more and more interesting works for the future. Please give us comment on our new works...Your advices would be our special motivation in creating these fabulous beadwork.

Our Trinity Colors Basket

Black & Ivory White Round Placemats
Jumbo Cupu

Round Flat Basket

New Venture.......Ducking!!!

Happy Ducking!!!

Sunset View from the rice field

Eating left over rice before heading home

Our Troops heading home before sun goes down


I am sending you all my Special greetings from Taman, Bali. Well, it has been a while that I haven’t written anything here at least until today. I have been busy with my new venture, duck farming which has been totally fun and enjoyable. I am definitely enjoying myself waking up in the morning and leading my troops to the nearby rice paddies where I live. They love eating the left over rice from the recent harvesting and the farmers are so happy to have me bringing the ducks over as they help them to get the field being manure and clean all the weeds.

Watching over the ducks while having morning coffee

I got up at around 6 am, grab my morning coffee and heading to the rice paddies nearby our home to lead the ducks for getting free left over rice. I leave them on the field till the evening and pick them back up at around sunset and lead them back home to a little house on the back of our property where they sleep for the night.

Wish me luck with my new venture and wish to share my duck eggs with you all soon. We have free delivery services via FedEx, UPS, EMS or even FCL Shipment method, so please let me know of which one of the above services, you guys want your duck's egg to be shipped.

Love,

Wayan Sueta.

White Duck.....It is not White Dove of Scorpions...

White symbolize the purity ......

Ni Wayan Ida Luh Parwati - Young Beader

Hello,

My name is Ni Wayan Ida Luh Parwati, born on February 26th, 1997 and I am living in a small village named Bongkasa Village. I am currently studying at SD N 2 Bongkasa Pertiwi, and I am in grade 4 right now.

I am very happy to have the opportunity to do this beadwork and will learn harder to be better and doing more beautiful works.

Wish me luck and please see below one of my works,


Ida.

Ni Wayan Natariani

Hello,

I am Wayan Natariani and I was born on August 3rd, 1997 at Bongkasa Village. I am currently studying at elementary school in grade 3. I love beading and so excited to create pattern on the beaded basket.

I love to create more designs for the future, and please find my work below.

Best regards,

Natariani

Our New Works

Black & Silver

Size W = 41 cm/16 inch

H = 34 cm/13 Inch

Price = US $ 175

Dark Blue & Turqouise
Size : W = 27 cm /10.5 Inch

H = 20 cm/8 inch

Price = US $ 45

New Pictures from our Workshop

Made Sudarsini or Dek Pis is seriously working on the big baskets, stitching seed beads onto the baskets with 2 drop peyote technique.

Our team and their works

Wayan Sueta - Bali Beader

Hi there, it is a miracle to me to have the opportunity to be involved in this new business venture where I can create work's opportunity to the local villagers. The local economy has been dropping down badly since the first Bali bombing in 2002 that create a lot of unemployment in Bali, life has been very difficult for the Balinese. It was totally a blessing when I got an email of someone from the US who was asking me to find the beaded baskets and so fortunate that I know that they are close to where I live so it was not that hard to find them. I was starting to take pictures to those local beaders and have found a lot of information from those guys. It is a great work and requires a lot of patient to create them and they do not make that much money from what they are creating even if they have to spend so much time to get them done. It is caused by the middle men who always make better money that the workers themselves.

I went and met those beader few times and asked the technique to bead the baskets as it seemed to be very interesting to know how to create these wonderful beaded basketry. I bought myself a couple small rattan basket and tried to bead them at home and I finally got my first basket in about 4 days but of course with lots of effort to get use to stitch every single seed bead on to the baskets. We are using the 2 drop peyote technique in creating the works. I was extremely excited when I got my first small beaded basket.

I jumped on a bigger one and tried to create butterfly pattern and not really great yet but quit satisfying to me as a beginner. I am also a tour driver/guide for Bali so I use only my free time to bead and you know that it is kind of very slow in getting my basket done. I am not sure when I would get my butterfly one finished and ready to enter the market, but one thing for sure you have to be very patient to wait for it to be finished.


Since I got a little knowledge on the beading technique and then I invited my neighbor to join me and tried to make them and they all very excited. I am happy to pay them more than what those beaders in the neighboring village earn. I could do this as I do not have to go through the middle guy. I market them myself to my clients and contacting all the people that I know to help me to market them so that I can support all these people and school children from my own village and my neighboring village.


Honestly, since I have paid them better and the news spread out the village and in a very short time, I got most of them wanted to work for me. Everyday, I got people come to my home asking for the job and it made me so exciting about what’s happening until I couldn’t realize that my small room mounted with beaded baskets. Wow….. What should I do? I can not take in everyone to work for me as my market is not that big yet, but I do want to help those guys to make something for their life, studies and family. Sometimes that it is so hard to be a good guy, right?

I do need help and support from everyone and wish that we all here can keep having the work and those children need good education, so let’s hand in hand help them out, keep them busy and keep their smile for a better world, a world of laugh and smile…
I am so happy to show you pictures of my work on this project, wish you do not laugh at me, okay?

Love and Peace, Wayan Sueta. ( The Founder of Bali Beadwork Center )

Ni Ketut Klinik-Bali Beader

Date of Birth : December 28th, 1978.

Home address : Br. Karang Dalem II, Desa Bongkasa Pertiwi, Abiansemal 80352, Badung, Bali.

I was born in Bongkasa and live next door to Wayan Sueta. I have been invited to learn to do the beadwork when he was starting this business venture. It is so lovely to have the work available for us who mostly at home most of the time taking care the children. I have a daughter and a son. My 8 years old daughter also learns the beading and very excited to be able to make extra money fro her school.

We are so lucky to have the opportunity to work and being able to support our family and our extra income and we are hoping that we are going to be able to have the job for much longer and inherit this great knowledge to our children. It is an exciting artwork for me and will be trying to create more beautiful works day by day.

I am proudly presenting some of my works that I have been creating in few months.

Regard,

Ketut

Ni Nyoman Nariati-Bali Beader

I am Nyoman Nariati from Br. Karang Dalem II, Desa Bongkasa Pertiwi in the district of Abinsemal, the regency of Badung, Bali. I was born on Monday, March 15, 1976 and I live next door from Wayan Sueta and have join him doing the beadwork since he got the idea to build this business. I thank him and Bali Beadwork Center for the opportunity to provide us with work where I can help my hushband to make extra money for our family and children. We have 2 sons and they both are at school. We have been receiving a lot from Wayan. He is often bringing tourist to his home and giving out pencils, books and crayon for our children in the village.

I am so excited to work on these beaded baskets and very very happy with all the improvement that I have gained in my work and it is also a great fun to work with all those children and they are all very lovely.

I am proudly present my works to everyone around the world and we thank you very much for all the support.

Best regards,

Nyoman.