This comprehensive reference fully explores the various types of beadwork, including beading on fabric, fringing, bead weavings, bead embroidery, and beaded jewelry. With easy-to-follow organization, this guide provides step-by-step directions and 500 full color photos for clear understanding. Basic projects provide opportunities for crafters to try the techniques, and galleries of unique beaded designs and creations by various bead artists offer

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Whether you're mastering crocheting with beads or choosing supplies for your very first necklace, Karen Morris has the answers to all your questions. Concise, straightforward, and packed with illustrations, this handy little book is full of tips and techniques that will take your craft to the next level. With insightful advice on everything from thread storage to fragile glass beads, The Beading Answer Book will help you solve your most vexing beading...

The biggest collection of patterns ever supplied in one book. Contains more than 300 fabulous bead designs with dozens of applications for amulets, chokers, necklaces, bracelets, hairslides, curtain tiebacks, napkin rings, and picture frames. Packed with designs for loom and off-loom weaving. Includes core techniques such as finishing your design, adding clasps, earwires, and pin backs. Each and every design is charted in full color using realistic...

"Dorothy Wood's essential resource for the modern beader guides you through basic skills, tools and materials, before tackling more advanced techniques and projects"--Page 4 of cover

In Knit One, Bead Too Judith Durant introduces crafters to fun stitching techniques that perk up knitted items with beautiful beads. Now knitters will have fun embellishing their fiber crafts with pretty beads, and jewelry makers will enjoy the challenge of working with beads in a whole new way. Knit One, Bead Too arms crafters with the skills to pair fibers and beads in unexpected ways. Five distinct knitting methods fully incorporate beads into...

Detailed photographs to guide you through the steps of making creepy bug and adorable creature projects, from dragonflies and honeybees to mosquitoes and centipedes.

"Native American artists are among the most skilled practitioners of beadwork, and this classic study--based on the extensive collections in the Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian--offers a well-illustrated look at the extraordinary variety of beadwork methods and their spectacular results"--Back cover.

Bead Chic, Chic You
Bead Chic will show you how to take inspiration that you love and forge your own creative path. After learning basic jewelry techniques, you'll be launched into 36 gorgeous projects. Each project comes with a variation, so you'll learn how easy it is to adapt virtually any project to suit your individual style, making you your own designer.
   • Each of 36 stepped-out projects features...

This is it—your perfect guide to making beautiful, eye-catching beaded bracelets!
With The Beaded Bracelet, you can't go wrong. Because bracelets are the perfect projects for both learning new techniques and for advancing your jewelry-making skills. Because bracelets make wonderful gifts; they're always just the right size. And because author Carole Rodgers has decades of creative and teaching experience; with Carole leading...

This book shows jewelry makers, beaders and crafters at all skill levels new ways to incorporate beads into a variety of chain-maille weaves to create pieces in copper, gold, bronze and silver.