Bead Tube Jewelry


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Artist and author Nancy Zellers takes it to the limit with this utterly original bead tube book. Using a simple peyote or brick-stitched tube, the author shows how to create more than 30 projects ranging in style from elegant to funky, and with colors spanning from subtle to brilliant, all from tiny, colorful, easy-to-find seed beads. Readers are able to see how changing colors and designs create new and exciting beaded beads. Also, a range of bracelets, earrings, and necklaces will delight the aspiring artist.




Diane Fitzgerald's Shaped Beadwork


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Provides instructions for creating a variety of two- and three-dimensional beadwork jewelry pieces.




Fast Peyote Stitch Jewelry


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Designer Josie Fabre has developed a new technique that allows for much quicker creation of the Peyote stitch. This is often the first stitch learned by beginning stitchers and is extremely time-consuming. By using a technique she developed, combined with her own, original, multi-drop, even-count, flat peyote patterns she has simplified the process. Keeping beginners in mind the book has 25+ beautiful projects designed with a minimum of colors in each pattern to making the patterns easier to follow and faster to create. Her inspired bracelet patterns range from the traditional wide to slim width, some include clean edging, some are finished with a stitched toggle clasp, and others use a double clasp. While bracelets are the main jewelry piece created in peyote stitch, Josie has also added necklaces and earrings to her mix in this book.




Bead Stitching Handbook


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Bead stitchers looking for information and instructions for the major bead stitches will find it all in Bead Stitching Handbook. This complete reference to bead stitching techniques — the only one of its kind just for stitching — includes clear, step-by-step illustrations and instructions for 15 different bead stitches, plus variations and lots of tips. Ideal for advanced beginners and experienced bead stitchers looking for accurate, in-depth information, this all-in-one resource also covers other stitching-related techniques like bead embroidery, soutache, and loomwork. Finally, the book includes information on beading materials, beads, thread, tools, weaves, knots, and much more. Each stitch is demonstrated with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations, then demonstrated in a sample project so bead stitchers can see and understand how each stitch is applied. All instructions and projects are written by the contributors and editors of Bead&Button magazine, the original and most comprehensive beading magazine available today. This well-organized, 128-page, 7.25" x 9.4" reference manual is the perfect size for beaders to keep in their workspaces. They'll turn to it again and again!




Jill Wiseman's Beautiful Beaded Ropes


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Features 24 beaded rope designs. From dainty to heavy and from simple to outrageously textured, this title contains beautiful and wearable necklace, lariat, bangle and bracelet projects that utilise such popular stitch techniques as spiral rope, peyote and oglala.




Beading with Cabochons


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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.




Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue


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Take a fun class with Japanese beader Sonoko Nozue, as if you were right there in person at a bead show -- but instead of learning one piece, you'll make 25. Sonoko's first book in English -- offers 25 stylish projects showcasing her signature melding of traditional Japanese style with modern dramatic flair. Sonoko's instructions include illustrations as well as some inspiring beauty shots of the jewelry featuring model photography with a Japanese aesthetic.




Beading 101


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Little Bead Boxes


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Learn to craft one-of-a-kind miniature boxes in a variety of shapes no matter your skill level with this assortment of twelve charming beadwork designs. Julia S. Pretl offers crafters her original method for creating decorative beaded boxes and lids in a wide range of surface designs and shapes. Working only with cylinder and seed beads, needle and thread, crafters can create an impressive array of clever and colorful miniature containers. With step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow word graphs and patterns, Pretl leads the reader through the techniques for creating three-sided, five-sided, and six-sided rectangular, square, and stacked boxes. Four-color photographs of each of the 12 designs introduce each set of instructions. Detailed drawings illustrate the beading techniques.




Beader's Guide: Peyote Stitch


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Bead stitchers who want to perfect their peyote stitch skills will find plenty of inspiration in Beader's Guide: Peyote Stitch. This in-depth look at the most popular beading stitch covers all the possibilities of peyote stitch, from traditional to contemporary, in 20+ fantastic projects. Ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate stitchers, Beader's Guide: Peyote Stitch opens with a thorough guide to this versatile stitch. The book covers variations on the stitch, including flat, two-drop, circular, tubular, shaped, and the new peytwist variation, which reproduces the look of bead crochet. Beaders will work the stitch using common and popular beads -- Delicas, seed beads, two-hole, and shaped beads -- in all kinds of colors and finishes. All instructions and projects are written by the contributors and editors of Bead&Button magazine and fully tested for accuracy. This essential guide will appeal to every beader.