Guide to Beading with a Loom


Book Description

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.




Bead Weaving on a Loom


Book Description

Modern looms make it easy to create beautiful and elegant beaded jewelry on a loom. Bead Weaving on a Loom shows you how to use needles, thread, and beads to create your own expensive-looking jewelry in beautiful textural patterns. Eleven step-by-step projects are provided for weaving intricate beaded creations, including bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more.




Beautiful Bead Weaving


Book Description

New inexpensive looms give any entry-level weaver the opportunity to produce lovely woven beaded jewelry. Readers will use this booklet to create elegant expensive-looking jewelry at low cost. Even complete beginners will get great results with these straightforward instructions and step-by-step projects. Clear diagrams and gorgeous color photographs make it easy.




Contemporary Loom Beading


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Captures the many ways this traditional craft has risen to new creative heights. See how to set up a loom, follow graphed patterns, create edgings and fringes and even build a simple loom from scratch.




Jewel Loom Inspirations


Book Description

How will the Jewel Loom inspire you? Create fun, easy beaded bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more with the versatile Jewel Loom! Jewel Loom creator Julianna Avelar fills you in on the basics of beading on a loom, then shares fifteen of her favorite Jewel Loom projects in easy-to-follow tutorials. Get creative with silk ribbon, fringe and leather cording then experiment with beads of varying colors and shapes--the jewelry projects in this book push the boundaries of traditional beading loom designs. Make something that fits your unique style! An inspiration gallery, featuring a beaded denim jacket, a fringed lampshade and more, offers ideas on how to use the Jewel Loom for more than just jewelry. So grab your loom and start beading!




Creative Bead Weaving


Book Description

This book shows how to go beyond the basics of beading to create three-dimensional objects such as bowls, baskets, and figures, as well as jewelry and accessories. Full instructions for 20 projects are included. 400 illustrations, 150 in color.




500 Bead Weaving Patterns for Bracelets


Book Description

An encyclopedia of beaded bracelet patterns for your small loom. Weaving beaded bracelets on a small bead loom is easy, and with the 500 patterns in this book you can make all kinds of creative designs! From bold graphic prints to animals and flowers to retro or southwestern designs, there are plenty of patterns to suit your style. Each pattern shows how many and what color beads are needed and the placement of every bead so it's easy to complete any bracelet you choose. Make them to keep and to give away. Switch up the bead colors--so many options will keep you coming back for more!




Innovative Weaving on the Frame Loom


Book Description

Open the door to the possibilities of what you can weave on your frame loom! A comprehensive guide to the frame loom, this book introduces the weaver to the basics of frame loom weaving and also more advanced techniques. Learn how to weave tapestries for wall hangings or handbags, lace for scarves and market bags, geometric shapes for alpacas and dolls, modules to sew together to make larger items, and so much more. Patterns for various weaves such as houndstooth and checkerboard are included, as well as instructions on how to adapt other weaves to the frame loom. Photo-illustrated step-by-step instructions are given for all techniques and 20 unique projects from home decor items to pouches and bags, scarves and other wearables, stuffed toys, bookmarks, and more. Looms used in the book are 6-inch, 8-inch, and 10-inch sizes, but the instructions are adaptable to any size loom. Once you know the basics, you can use your woven modules to create whatever you imagine!




Bead Weaving and Embroidery with Miyuki Beads


Book Description

Get started bead weaving with Miyuki seed beads! With this introductory book, you will learn how to work the four main bead weaving techniques: brick stitch, peyote stitch, square stitch, and loom weaving. Even if you’ve never worked with beads before, you'll learn all the materials and skills needed to begin. The stitches are explained in easy-to-understand steps and photos, with troubleshooting tips for success. Now you are ready to weave any of the 100 bead patterns in the book. Make geometric patterns, sweet birds, beautiful flowers, and a myriad of other colorful patterns. These designs can then be used to make necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pins, or rings; or be used as embellishments for clothing, handbags, wall hangings, and so much more. Instructions for how to make these items are included, along with many suggestions to foster your own creativity. Why not use your seed beads for further embellishing? With just a few easy embroidery stitches you can add beads to almost anything! Also combine your embroidery with your bead weaving for even more designs. There is so much fun to be had with beads!




Indian Bead-weaving Patterns


Book Description

A basic guide to Indian bead weaving containing over 200 instructional illustrations and photographs of forty-seven bead-work projects.