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By Chris Franchetti Michaels
Visual
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You've probably coveted jewelry you've seen in artsy boutiques and fashion magazines or envied friends who have the perfect bling to accent everything. With this book, you'll learn to craft designs that are chic but inexpensive. With hundreds of detailed photos, this book covers tools and supplies, bead stringing and weaving, wire wrapping, and more. Terrific projects will get you started and inspire you to create your own jewelry and beadwork designs. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review - Each skill or technique is defined and described
Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance |
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By Sharilyn Miller
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Magazine editor and popular author Sharilyn Miller knows the jewelry making audience like no one else. In this latest book, she shows crafters of all levels how to get in on the popularity of jewelry and beading, with: -An in-depth section on design and construction techniques that makes it a snap to get started -More than 20 step-by-step bead and wire jewelry projects, including gorgeous earrings, necklaces, brooches, and bracelets It only takes a few basic steps to start making fashionable jewelry that's guaranteed to trigger compliments. |
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By Irina Miech
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Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders features projects that combine wireworking skills with beaded jewelry design. The book is technique-driven, with chapters on wire fundamentals, terminology, materials, and basic wireworking techniques, and projects that develop the reader’s skills. The projects incorporate gemstones, crystal, glass, and pearls and are designed for both beaders and wireworkers of all skill levels. Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders includes appealing designs — all tested — for necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, pins, and jewelry components. |
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By Beverly Gilbert
North Light Books
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Mix Glowing Color Palettes to Create Stunning JewelryLearn to approach color as a painter does, only your palette will be rainbow-hued beads, and your paintings will be spectacular jewelry you can wear! Beaded Colorways shows you how to mix beads and gems together to create custom color blends called Bead Soups. These “soups” are then woven together into dazzling pieces that are more like works of art than simple jewelry. You’ll even learn how to seamlessly stitch from one color to another, helping you create stunning multicolor jewelry. Beverly Gilbert teaches you to create your own stunning beaded works of art through: - In-depth discussion about color theory - accompanied by color wheels- allowing you to turn beads into your medium and make jewelry your canvas.
- Clear photos and step-by-step instructions guide you through beadweaving techniques - including netting, peyote and freeform stitches - letting you create truly unique jewelry.
- 18 projects that include a mix of materials to add even more texture: gems, beach glass, ribbon and metal all make their way into stunning creations.
- Let Beaded Colorways start you on your artistic beading journey.
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By Kelly Wiese
North Light Books
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Fall in love with beadingAdd a romantic twist to your creative time with Beaded Allure. Inside you’ll find projects and techniques to give your beadweaving the soft and romantic aesthetic you’ve always dreamed of. Author Kelly Weise will lead you through the ins and out of variety of stitches, and you’ll learn to use those stitches in 25 stepped-out projects. - 10 beadweaving stitches and techniques detailed enough for beginners, yet still a great reference for more seasoned beaders.
- 25 projects have detailed instructions—including clear step-by-step photos—that beaders of all skill levels can complete.
- Easy to find tools and materials means you can get started today creating these beautiful necklaces, earrings and bracelets.
Let Beaded Allure bring out the romantic in you. |
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By Laura McCabe
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Laura McCabe creates elaborate beaded embellishments which she combines into stunning jewelry. These graceful forms are also ideal for embellishing garments or fiber artworks. Her definitive guide to weaving and embroidering with beads is the third volume in the bestselling Beadweaving Master Class series. Combining traditional techniques with modern materials, and showcasing a wide variety of bead types, it offers 18 opulent pieces of jewelry incorporating motifs drawn from the natural world, such as flora and fauna, art nouveau designs, and geometric forms. With its truly spectacular illustrations, this is a feast of inspiration for crafters in all fiber media. |
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By Editors of Bead&Button magazine
Kalmbach Books
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Your Seed Bead Style offers a fun and satisfying way to enhance seed beading by focusing on the addition of unexpected materials. This collection of projects features chapters on crystals and glass, pearls, metals, gemstones, and fibers. Each editor-tested project includes a basics section, a list of supplies, how-to instructions, and clear illustrations and photography. Techniques range from square stitch to herringbone. Crystals and glass can be employed in a Russian snake stitch or a peyote stitch necklace. Pearls can be added for a beachcomber's bracelet or a Gothic chevron necklace. Also here are unique ideas for expanding standard stitching. |
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By Marcia DeCoster
Lark Books
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The newest addition to the Beadweaving Master Class series features two dozen spectacular jewelry designs from renowned master beading teacher Marcia DeCoster. DeCoster specializes in the popular right angle weave stitch, and she presents beadweavers with a comprehensive primer on her beautiful techniques. Eager beaders will learn how to use the stitch to create fabulous effects—including a supple beaded fabric, beaded ropes, shaped curves, and embellished layers—in stunning, modern jewelry designs. These pieces are nothing less than fine art! |
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By Jane Dickerson
Interweave Press
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Incorporating chain as a key element in jewelry design is becoming increasingly popular, and this handy instructional assists jewelry artists in discovering the ease and affordability of manipulating the medium to produce stunning and fashionable pieces. Using commonly found chain metals, such as brass, copper, sterling silver, gunmetal, aluminum, base metal, and goldtone, this extensive and accessible reference presents 50 fun and creative methods for showcasing chain styles to make even the most inexperienced designer look like a pro. Covering basic essential techniques—including opening and closing jump rings, cutting, oxidizing, and hammering—this informative and engaging manual focuses on simple chain styles that can be constructed to form clean, modern, wearable art. |
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By Candice Cooper
Lark Books
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Trying to find the perfect clasp or unique bead cap to showcase a favorite bead? Stop searching—and make your own! Metalworking 101 for Beaders provides detailed advice about tools and materials, step-by-step photos of the latest techniques, and a dedicated and delightful teacher to guide you through it all Candie explains how to enhance your beading pieces with techniques that include soldering, sawing and annealing, riveting, weaving, doming, piercing, texturing, applying finishes, and more! The book also includes over 30 striking jewelry projects to try! |
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