Creative Beading Vol. 8


Book Description

This volume of Creative Beading includes more than 75 projects to inspire beaders. Each of the book’s three sections, single-stitch, multi-stitch, and wirework & stringing, contains a wealth of editor-tested projects by many well-known designers. This book also includes thorough sections on basics, tools, and materials. This is one of the only book series that compiles almost every project from a year’s worth of magazines. The large number of projects this book offers, and the great quality of this hardcover book makes it a great value.




Your Seed Bead Style


Book Description

Variety is the name of the game in Your Seed Bead Style! From the pages of Bead&Button magazine, the 27 projects in this book will show you how to incorporate interesting materials into your seed bead jewelry. Your Seed Bead Style is organized by material and features a variety of techniques and stitches including peyote, herringbone, square stitch, bead embroidery, tatting, right-angle weave, and more. Take your jewelry to the next level and let your creativity flow!




Get Started Beading


Book Description

Projects included: Basic strung necklace -- Two-strand bracelet -- Playing with color -- Easy Y-necklace -- Art bead ensemble -- Beaded eyeglass holder -- Two-strand choker -- Floating pearls -- Beading with briolettes -- Beaded watch band -- Easy multistrand necklace -- Luxurious lariat -- Braided five-strand necklace -- Finishing touches -- Leather cord necklace -- Head pin earrings -- Dangles and drops -- Victorian tassels -- Delicate flower earrings -- Antique button bracelet -- Embellished bead chain -- Charm bracelet -- Crystal slide necklace -- Pearl drop necklace -- Coiled head pin earrings -- Coiled wire bracelet -- Elegant wire earrings -- Two spiral earring styles -- Button bracelets -- Square stitch basics -- Reversible bracelets -- Inlaid bead ring -- Triangular twist lariat -- Brick stitch basics -- Blackfeet needle-woven earrings -- Brick stitch hearts -- Hoop dreams -- Peyote stitch basics -- Easy peyote cuff -- Easy peyote rope -- Ndebele herringbone basics -- Fringed Ndebele herringbone bracelet -- Endless Ndebele herringbone cuff -- Tubular herringbone bracelet -- Right-angle-weave basics -- Right-angle-weave crystal bracelet -- Right-angle-weave collar -- Embellished right-angle-weave bracelet.




Creative Beading Vol. 11


Book Description

Offers beaders nearly every project from the October 2014 through August 2015 issues of Bead&Button magazine, all in one gorgeous, hardcover volume. The latest edition in this popular series showcases stitching projects in many styles and colors, features thorough basics sections, and offers hundreds of helpful tips and beading ideas. With more than 75 projects at a wide variety of skill levels, every beader will find something to love!




Creative Beading Vol. 10


Book Description

This collection offers beaders at every level over 75 projects from the October 2013 through August 2014 issues of Bead&Button magazine, all in one gorgeous, hardcover volume. The latest edition in this popular series features a thorough basics section, hundreds of helpful tips and beading ideas, and more than 75 projects for beaders at every skill level. The projects are grouped by technique – single stitches, combined stitches, and other techniques – and feature the latest trends, bead shapes, and techniques. Hundreds of editor-tested instructions, step-by-step photos, and clear illustrations ensure beading success! Every beader will find something to love!




Creative Beading Vol. 6


Book Description

This volume of Creative Beading includes more than 75 projects to inspire beaders. Each of the book’s three sections, stitching, wirework, and miscellaneous, contains a wealth of editor-tested projects, and includes a range of stringing, wirework, and bead crochet projects in addition to the fantastic stitching projects for which Bead&Button magazine is known. This book also includes thorough sections on basics, tools, and materials, making getting organized easy for readers.




Beading with Cabochons


Book Description

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.




Creative Beading Vol. 13


Book Description

Jewelry makers in search of stitching projects love Kalmbach's Creative Beading series, back for 2018 with its 13th volume. Inside this high-quality hardcover book, beaders will find 65+ projects from the latest year of Bead&Button magazine. All the projects are designed by the magazine's contributors and editors, fully tested by the editors, and accompanied by step-by-step instructions, photos, and illustrations. The emphasis is on bead stitching, the most popular technique among Bead&Button readers. With more than 65 projects, Creative Beading Vol. 13 features jewelry in a wide variety of colors, styles, skills, and techniques. The projects feature the tried-and-true materials beaders love — multi-hole and shaped beads, seed beads, crystals, pearls, and gemstones. Every beader will find something to love! Creative Beading Vol. 13 includes a thorough Basics section, so beaders new to the techniques can get started quickly, and a handy index to the contributors for jewelry makers looking for a particular designer's style.




Creative Beading Vol. 14


Book Description

Inside this high-quality hardcover book, beaders will find 70+ projects featuring jewelry in a wide variety of colors, styles, skills, and techniques. from the latest year of Bead & Button magazine. All the projects are designed by the magazine's contributors and editors, fully tested by the editors, and accompanied by step-by-step instructions, photos, and illustrations. The emphasis is on bead stitching, the most popular technique among Bead & Button readers. The projects feature both the tried-and-true materials beaders love--seed beads, crystals, pearls, and gemstones--and the newest multi-hole and shaped beads.




1000 Beads


Book Description

Celebrate the innovation and creative inspiration of contemporary beadmakers from around the world! This gorgeous volume in the popular Showcase series presents 1,000 unique beads, all handcrafted from a dazzling array of materials--including glass, polymer clay, ceramics, metal, paper, fiber, plastic, wood, and stone. Each one is a magnificent piece of art, whether on its own or in a piece of jewelry or other ornamentation.