It’s been a while since I last wrote about the UK Johnson Solids Project – a UK iteration of Diane Fitzgerald’s amazing community project in the US. Sylvia Fairhurst, who organised the UK incarnation, has been busy looking for places to exhibit the collection since its completion. This was challenging when the project initially concluded, as we were in the middle of the pandemic, so open venues were few and far between. However, as the world has opened back up and beading meet ups have resumed the project is now finding places to be displayed.

The current venue is Spellbound Beads in Lichfield, just north of Birmingham. If you’ve not had the chance to visit them in person then maybe this is the excuse you need! (I recently managed to visit them myself for the first time after having spent many years ordering many beads from them online – it’s a fantastic bead shop and I highly recommend a visit!)

Photograph courtesy of Spellbound Beads.

You can view all 92 beaded Johnson Solids – along with the Archimedean and Platonic solids that were also part of the UK project – at Spellbound over the next 6 weeks. To find out more check out their Facebook page or website.

And if you’d like to read more about the original Johnson Solids Project, Diane has published a booklet about it complete with instructions on how to get starting with making these shapes. Find it in her esty shop!