Bead Meets Metal

Bead Meets Metal
Author: Kay Rashka
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2013-04-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0871167786

Come take the journey with Kay as she shows you how to begin adding soldering, dapping, sawing, and other skills from the metalsmith’s repertoire into your beading. Kay’s projects will also show beginner metalworkers how to incorporate the rich, colorful, sumptuous look that semiprecious beads bring to metal jewelry. These necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants present such a complete range of techniques, all fully and beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos. You’ll be amazed at the eye candy you can create!

Beadmaille

Beadmaille
Author: Cindy Thomas Pankopf
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Beadwork
ISBN: 9781600594953

Jewelry makers--and beaders in particular--are hungry for new ideas, so they'll rejoice in having a brand-new, easy, and gorgeous technique to try! "Beadmaille "offers an entirely unique and beautiful way to craft chain mail-like jewelry, using the simplest of bead-weaving processes to link together metal jump rings in classic patterns. The 25 pieces--bracelets, necklaces, and earrings--all showcase seed beads in luscious colors, and both handmade and commercial jump rings in gold, sterling silver, copper, or bronze.

Making Jewelry with Gemstone Beads

Making Jewelry with Gemstone Beads
Author: Barbara Case
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2007-10-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0715330578

Bead with beautiful gemstones and create dazzling earrings, bracelets, and more—includes over one hundred projects for all skill levels. You can learn to create gorgeous gemstone jewelry with this collection of over one hundred projects, ranging from eye-catching earrings and accessories to exquisite necklaces and bracelets. This beautiful book offers an impressive range of twenty-eight beautiful semi-precious stones (including birthstones) and a glimpse into the fascinating history and mythical properties behind them. Projects range from the simplest stringing to more detailed beadwork to cater for all levels of ability. Discover a variety of versatile ideas that can be adapted for any type of gem or bead—with clear artwork, vivid photos, and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

Simple Metalwork Jewelry

Simple Metalwork Jewelry
Author: Judy Freyer Thompson
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1627002510

This is the go-to book for beginners interested in learning cold connections metalworking. Book contains 25+ cool jewelry projects for newcomers to metalwork who will learn cutting, piercing, riveting, sawing, finishing, and dapping techniques. Make earrings, necklaces, pendants, bangles, bracelets, brooches, and rings, all in very wearable designs. The projects are created using cold connections — no torch or soldering necessary. Author Judy Freyer-Thompson is an accomplished author and designer. She teaches you in a friendly style that makes learning easy and fun.

The Construction Superintendent’s Handbook

The Construction Superintendent’s Handbook
Author: Sidney Levy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146848494X

A construction professional with more than 30 years experience in the industry offers a practical manual designed for the construction superintendent that helps to simplify today's complex projects while offering highly accessible and easily referenced technical data on most common construction components. This handbook begins by analyzing the key factors that must be considered before the actual start of construction. Complete discussions of construction contracts and documents and basic construction law are designed to prevent costly legal problems among the superintendent, architect, engineer, client and subcontractor. Coverage also includes scrutiny of the plans and specifications, and insights into the responsibilities of all participants in the construction process. Superintendents obtain clear guidance on how to formulate job policies and procedures, and how to ensure that the soomth day-to-day running of the project with the aid of a 30-day look-ahead schedule. Helpful advice and warnings on pitfalls to avoid are liberally sprinkled throughout the handbook.

1000 Glass Beads

1000 Glass Beads
Author: Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579904586

They’re the very best in contemporary glass beadmaking, 1000 dazzling and unique examples by an international array of artists. This color survey has it all: the beads come single or in multiples, in jewelry or sculptural pieces, flameworked and kilnformed; and their diversity and beauty are amazing. Julia Skop’s intriguing Secret Surprise showcases clear glass beads with millefiori slices at the ends. Bruce St. John crafts his beads out of diachroic glass, then fuses and coldworks them at the lapidary well after completion. Nebula Black Necklace, from Rene Roberts, features an organic-looking focal bead adorned with fine metal leaf, glass shards, and a subtle dot decoration. An artist’s comment and detail image accompany many of the photos. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

The Beader's Guide to Color

The Beader's Guide to Color
Author: Margie Deeb
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780823004874

Demonstrating the use of color in creating beautiful beadwork projects, a collection of more than twenty innovative projects highlights the techniques used to create colorful designs and discusses the importance and symbolic meanings of color. Original.

The Art of Beaded Beads

The Art of Beaded Beads
Author: Jean Campbell
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579908256

Beaders everywhere are discovering the extraordinary creative potential and pleasure of making unique, one-of-a-kind beads from existing beads themselves. This lushly illustrated guide. now in a paperback version, offers them a blast of inspiration, with 40 fabulous designs from today?s finest beadwork artists. Ranging from understated to pure dazzling glam, these projects showcase a range of innovative techniques. Among the standouts: a peyote-stitched Tetrahedron Beaded Bead; a Peek-A-Boo Bead, using steel nuts from the hardware store; and a cylinder-shaped Pi?ata Bead, decorated with smaller beads resembling tiny, colorful party balloons.

Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases

Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1962
Genre: Copyright
ISBN:

"Compiled from Official gazette. Beginning with 1876, the volumes have included also decisions of United States courts, decisions of Secretary of Interior, opinions of Attorney-General, and important decisions of state courts in relation to patents, trade-marks, etc. 1869-94, not in Congressional set." Checklist of U. S. public documents, 1789-1909, p. 530.