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About Us...
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 Hello Fellow Bead Lovers,
Dean and I welcome you to the Bearcat & Co. site! We both enjoy the art of beadweaving. It all started several years ago when I discovered a "split loom necklace". It was SO beautiful, I wanted to make one! So I went home and had Dean make me a simple table top loom. In the next couple weeks I spent many hours creating one of my own. Dean watched me work and the enthusiasm caught him too. He soon started a project of his own.
While weaving his first project, sitting for hours at a time bent over the loom, his back started aching. He decided that there had to be a better way to beadweave in a more comfortable fashion . For the next couple of weeks he designed, created, fine tuned, and thus he developed the Bearcat Loom with Stand. In the fall of 1996 Bearcat & Co. was born.
We wanted to have the freedom of weaving on a loom without proping it up on our laps, or working with it on the table, or having to lean over it for several hours at a time. With the loom supported by a stand, it allows us to work forward facing, and we can sit on our sofa or favorite chair. We take our looms to the park and out in nature, and have even beaded while enjoying the serene atmosphere of a winery concert. Both our children, Dan & Angela, beadweave and have created outstanding work.
We make each loom from scratch and take pride in the workmanship and quality of each one. Since that beginning, Bearcat & Co. has also created a smaller tabletop loom, the "Bearcub Loom". We wanted to "Support People's Creativity", both young and old alike, in the art of beadweaving and design.
We hope you enjoy our site and let us know how we can further help you with your beadweaving needs. We encourage you to send us pictures of your work, so we can display them on our site. You can contact us at:
BEARCAT & CO.
P.O. Box 22676
Milwaukie, Oregon 97269
or give us a call at 503-786-6125.
Thanks so much,
Kristy Judy
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