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This is actual size of  the bookmark (the loom only made things this wide. The neat thing about a loom-beaded item is that it is pretty on both sides. Unless you're doing lettering, of course, in which case the backside would look like Klingon.

This is the first part of the belt. Beading is usually graphed and then worked from row to row, following the graph. Beads are longer than they are wide, so if you use standard square graph paper (such as you'd use for cross-stitch), the finished product appears stretched wide. I only had standard graph paper, so I charted these horses very chunky.

This is the second picture of the same belt. The horse to the left is the same one at the end of the first belt picture. Unfortunately, the loom had a maximum length that was about equal to half my width at the time (I'm wider now) so I made two beaded strips and then discovered that the monofilament fishing-rod wrapping line that I'd used to bead them would not stay knotted together. I resorted to gluing plastic cement over the knots which looks really ugly. Luckily, the jeans I wore the belt with had a belt loop in the middle and that covered up the ugly bit.

This is the third picture of the belt. Again the horse-head to the left is the same horse as at the end of the previous picture. I didn't have many 'horse-colors',but I did manage to get a palomino, a couple of appaloosas and a pinto out of the colors I did have.

And this is the other end of the belt and another ugly bit where I joined it onto the loop. The white and gray horse to the left is the same one that's on the right side of the previous picture.