The technique has been used by Native Americans and in Africa, the Middle East and South America.

Guatemalan examples use beads of size 22/0 and smaller.

[3] There are many variations of brick stitch in bead weaving.

[5] It is easy to increase and decrease in brick stitch by skipping a thread bridge or forcing two beads into one thread bridge, making it a versatile stitch to shape bead work with.

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