Wax before colour, always
Beeswax and pine resin go down first, melted thin. Yarn only bites when the ground is warm — no glue, no shortcut, just the tacky black field holding every strand.
Lay the strand, follow the contour
Each length of acrylic yarn is pressed parallel to the one beside it, bending only where the form bends. Deer antler, corn husk, peyote crown — the line obeys the shape, never the grid.
Black outline, then the field glows
A ridge of black yarn seals every colour before its neighbour goes in. The neon sits inside its own dark cell — that's why the pink vibrates against the teal instead of bleeding into it.
Fill edge to edge, leave no ground bare
A nierika is finished only when the board is gone. We pack the field until the wax shows nowhere — density is the discipline, not decoration, and the vision only resolves when it's complete.