Guide to Beading with a Loom

Guide to Beading with a Loom
Author: Jamie Cloud Eakin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-29
Genre: Beadwork
ISBN: 9781533645357

Guide to Beading with a Loom is a comprehensive introduction to this popular beading technique. This book includes all the information needed for beginners including information about looms, supplies and techniques and is packed with photos and illustrations to provide maximum understanding. The twenty projects will build and advance your skills and knowledge. Plus there are numerous project variations to stimulate your own creativity. Advanced beaders familiar with loom beading will also find wonderful techniques and information on non-traditional techniques including many projects. This is a resource book every beader needs in their library.

Beaded Jewelry The Complete Guide

Beaded Jewelry The Complete Guide
Author: Susan Ray
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-12-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440220964

Your One-Stop Source for Beading Know-How Jewelry and beading expert Susan Ray, along with dozens of expert jewelry artists, bring you this complete tutorial for making your own jewelry to fit your personal style. Whether you prefer professional and polished, classic and elegant, or casual and comfortable, you will find the designs and information needed to complete your jewelry pieces using this book. You will also benefit from valuable lessons in: • Bead history • Bead sizing, definitions, weights and charts • Organizing and caring for your beads • Stringing basics • Preparing findings and closures, found objects and vintage findings • Creating beads with metal clay, polymer clay, lampwork and more • Stitching with beads • Selling your jewelry With so much essential information within these pages, Beaded Jewelry the Complete Guide is your one-stop source for everything you need to know about beading.

Exquisite Beaded Jewelry

Exquisite Beaded Jewelry
Author: Lynda Musante
Publisher: Krause Publications
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2004-07-20
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780873498081

Expanded Polar Fleece Techniques.

Jewelry Making & Beading For Dummies

Jewelry Making & Beading For Dummies
Author: Heather Dismore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2011-03-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1118053427

Features step-by-step projects and full-color examples Create unique jewelry to wear with everything from jeans to a ball gown! Want to make your own jewelry? This easy-to-follow guide gives you lots of hands-on instruction in making simple, fabulous jewelry and working with beads. From wire wrapping and knotting to weaving and polishing, you'll get all the skills you need to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, key chains, wine charms and items for the home. Discover how to * Create funky and elegant designs * Work with leather, silver, and stones * String, knot, and weave beads * Avoid common mistakes * Host a trendy jewelry party

Beading with Cabochons

Beading with Cabochons
Author: Jamie Cloud Eakin
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579907181

With this gloriously photographed and illustrated manual at hand, beaders can create awe-inspiring jewelry. It's the only current, comprehensive guide to working with cabochons--a flat piece of rock or mineral--and it covers all the basics, along with a range of new creative techniques and hot trends. Find out which tools and materials to use, which beads work best, and how to wrap them round the stones. Craft turned, pointed, twisted, brick stitch, ruffled, or scalloped edges, or add decorative fringe. For something dramatic, combine more than one cabochon in a single piece. Or, instead of natural stone, use dichroic glass or other found objects. Make a glittering brooch, funky bracelets, a wearable art necklace, and other showstoppers.

Beaded Jewelry: Wirework Techniques

Beaded Jewelry: Wirework Techniques
Author: Carson Eddy
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1612124844

Show your style with handcrafted jewelry. Beaded Jewelry: Wirework Techniques has all the tips and tricks you need to make your own professional-looking jewelry using wirework techniques. Step-by-step instructions teach you how to select the best wire and tools for your project, while clear illustrations show you exactly how to bend, twist, and shape your way to beautiful loops, hoops, and head pins. You’ll soon be designing and creating unique and personal earrings, bracelets, and pendants.

The Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewelry

The Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewelry
Author: Wing Mun Devenney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Jewelry making
ISBN: 9781438006550

A professional jewelry designer and teacher offers design ideas, instruction on the use of jigs, mandrels, and spiral makers, repetitive patterns for jewelry chains and sets, step-by-step guidance for 11 projects, including earrings, bangles, bracelets, necklaces, and much more.

Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry

Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry
Author: Ray Hemachandra
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: CRAFTS & HOBBIES
ISBN: 9781454703167

"This beautiful and inspiring book gathers photographs of 500 of the most breathtaking beaded jewelry designs created in recent years. The techniques the beaders employ are as varied as the aesthetic sensibilities they bring to their gorgeous creations and include beadweaving in every stitch imaginable, embroidery, quilling, loom weaving, and kumihimo braiding, as well as basic stringing, simple wirework, and fine metalwork. Sometimes, a bead maker's focal piece simply is set in a straightforward, unpretentious, and beautiful design. Virtually all of the world's most famous beaders who make jewelry have pieces included -- including Carol Wilcox Wells, Diane Fitzgerald, Marcia DeCoster, Jamie Cloud Eakin, Huib Petersen, Paulette Baron, Sabine Lippert, Sherry Serafini, Margie Deeb, Maggie Meister, Melanie Potter, Ann Tevepaugh Mitchell, Laura McCabe, Suzanne Golden, Jean Campbell, Rachel Nelson-Smith, Eva Dobos, and many more -- but we also present work from many artists who have never been published before. All together, this extensive, international, and fabulous survey of 500 pieces includes work from nearly 300 artists from 30 countries and reveals the striking vision and ambition of today's beading community. Every beader, jeweler, and crafter will want Showcase 500 beaded jewelry in their collection"--

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Illustrated

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Illustrated
Author: Georgene Muller Lockwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Bead embroidery
ISBN: 9781592572564

The bead is imbued with history, a compact record of human ingenuity and creativity. Beads are, quite simply, beautiful. One of the great things about beading is that it can be extremely easy or very complicated, according to how much time or patience one is willing to give to it. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading Illustratedgives readers all the skills they need to do many of the different kinds of beadwork made all over the world. Included are hundreds of step-by-step instructions and simple samples to make for each technique, more advanced projects, and finally resources to broaden beading knowledge and crafting expertise. Readers will learn how to make their own beads from wood, clay, or found objects; understand the intricacies of fasteners and clasps; design their own beaded jewellery; work with wire and assorted threading techniques; bead on fabric and fibres or looms; and more!

Mastering the Art of Beading

Mastering the Art of Beading
Author: Genevieve A. Sterbenz
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780811871600

Mastering the Art of Beading will do for jewelry making what Julia Child did for French food. In this definitive guide to all things beads, expert jewelry maker Genevieve A. Sterbenz covers all of the terms, tools, skills, and shortcuts necessary for creating beautiful beaded jewelry. With more than 800 how-to photographs, detailed and illustrated techniques, a photographic glossary, and useful resources, this book is packed to the brim with beading essentials. In addition, Sterbenz presents step-by-step instructions for 50 stunning projects in a range of techniques and styles. An accessible compendium dissecting every aspect of this popular craft, Mastering the Art of Beading will be the resource craftersdabblers and experts alikewill want on their bookshelf for years to come.