Beaded Cords, Chains, Straps & Fringe

Beaded Cords, Chains, Straps & Fringe
Author: Jean Campbell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 162033304X

Featuring 32 techniques, this full-color guide includes precise instructions, clearly drawn illustrations, and beautiful photographs of a wide variety of projects, from bracelets, necklaces, and eyeglass chains to scarf edgings, bag fringes, and more.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Basics

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Basics
Author: Georgene Lockwood
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1101558555

Includes all the fundamentals readers need to know to enjoy the craft and create successful projects. Clear, well-illustrated instructions guide readers through each step of beading for jewelry and home crafts, including choosing a design and beads, selecting clasps and other findings, stringing on different materials, weaving off and on a loom, working with wire, and finishing any project. • Expert advice on mastering stringing and weaving techniques, plus specialty techniques such as beading flowers, beaded embroidery, and various beaded embellishments. • Choose the best color, size, and shape of beads and the right connectors, fasteners, and clasps for any project • Tons of crisp, instructional black-and-white photos and line drawings

Bead It with Beadwork

Bead It with Beadwork
Author: Jean Campbell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620333449

Creating stunning, professional-looking beaded jewelry is a snap with with Bead It with Beadwork Inside you'll find 16 artisan projects featuring the attention-to-detail and clear instruction readers' have come to expect from Beadwork magazine. Each beautifully beaded necklace, pair of earrings, pin, and bracelet includes all the direction you'll need from tools to materials to step-by-step illustrations. With Bead It with Beadwork, you're just a few beads and strings away from creating unique jewelry you'll love to wear.

Beaded Pictures

Beaded Pictures
Author: Alice Korach
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780890244418

Turn a palette of colorful beads into unique bead-woven wall hangings, amulet bags, bookmarks, pendants, and bracelets! Beaded Pictures contains 49 great patterns of everything from flowers to Frankenstein. It provides complete instructions for each piece as well as alternative stitching and finishing ideas. * Subjects include animals, people, floral themes, geometric and ethnic paterns, seasonal designs, and inspirations from fine art, pop culture, and music. * Includes patterns and instructions for peyote stitch, brick stitch, square stitch, loom weaving, fringing, and more. * Inspirational photographs of finished pieces demonstrate the versatility and quality of the completed beaded patterns.

The Big Book of Beading Patterns

The Big Book of Beading Patterns
Author: Editors of Bead&Button Magazine
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-08-29
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1627000259

The Big Book of Beading Patterns is the go-to compendium of patterns for all types of stitchers. Many pattern books focus solely on loomwork, but this book also includes popular stitches like peyote, brick, and square stitch in addition to loomwork. The gorgeous patterns here can be used to make beaded bracelets, amulets, tapestries, and more. Patterns are divided into chapters by topics like animals, flowers, holidays, and more. The best of Bead&Button’s patterns are showcased in this exciting compilation.

Beadwork Creates Beaded Bags

Beadwork Creates Beaded Bags
Author: Jean Campbell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-04-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620332876

These designs for a wide variety of bags from the beading world's top designers will amaze beginners as well as advanced beadworkers. These 30 projects include clutches, drawstring purses, wrist bags, amulet bags, and even a market bag. Featured are a variety of techniques leading to bags that are not only beautiful, but can often be completed in an evening or weekend, providing instant gratification. Included are tips to help start each project and clear demonstrations of each stitch used in the book. Each project includes information about the designer, giving a feel for the people in and the bead buzz surrounding this interesting and accessible community.

Native American Beadwork

Native American Beadwork
Author: Theresa Flores Geary
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402740626

Beadwork has been steadily gaining popularity among crafters, and no area of the genre garners more interest than the intricate designs of the Apache, Comanche, and Lakota peoples of the American Southwest, who use their designs to relate legends and pass down tribal lore. Here are 15 authentic projects using such traditional stitches as the flat and circular peyote stitches, the Comanche weave, free-form feathering, and more. Each project is accompanied by a rich explanation of how the colors, shapes, and combinations of materials interact to tell a story. Abundant color photographs and illustrations guide the reader through this unique art form.

Beadwork Creates Beaded Rings

Beadwork Creates Beaded Rings
Author: Jean Campbell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2013-04-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620332868

Beaders learn how to create bold and original finger jewelry quickly and easily with this guide to beadwork. Spectacular beading projects created by prominent designers are provided along with beautiful photography and clear step-by-step instructions. The gorgeous variety of stylish rings include flashy rhinestone coils and modest patterned tubes, flowers for the hand, crystal domes that catch the light, leopard skin and sea urchin rings, and a ring for one's chakra. Patterns for knitted, strung, and wireworked rings for special occasions and everyday wear are included. The techniques used to create these fun and easy rings range from simple netting to peyote stitch.

Beadweaving Brilliance

Beadweaving Brilliance
Author: Kumiko Mizuno Ito
Publisher: Japan Publications Trading
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2007
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9784889962253

Just in time for holiday hand-made-gift-making, comes this beautifully illustrated book that shows crafters how to create colorful and unique beaded accessories. Using a single needle and thread, readers will learn a variety of stitches, including herringbone, peyote (also known as gourd), brick, square, right angle weave and African helix, to weave beads into a flat fabric or 3-dimensional object. The off-loom beading technique lends itself to fashioning striking accessories; and in Beadweaving Brilliance, author Kumiko Mizuno offers precise instructions for 30 different projects that will take even a novice beader no more than two hours to complete. The book is divided into sections covering five different types of accessories - rings, pendants, straps, bracelets and necklaces - and also includes sections on basic techniques, color variations and tools.