Tara is a lifelong bead collector. To this day, her personal bead collection is organized in the same ‘boxed’ method as the Bergers Beads Specialty Co., a clothing and accessories material store, open from 1938-2014. The shop was famous for its floor to ceiling high bookcases brimming with paper boxes of beads, organized by variety and color. This beloved store in the Los Angeles Garment District inspired Tara’s lifelong appreciation of beads from around the world and her fascination with elaborate geometric indigenous beadwork.