Seed Bead Fusion

Seed Bead Fusion
Author: Rachel Nelson-Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-02-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620332450

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Featuring 18 exciting projects presented with detailed step-by-step photography, color variations, and practical illustrations, this fresh approach to seed bead jewelry teaches crafters how to combine materials, techniques, colors, inspiration, and design ideas for jewelry with a contemporary edge. Inspired by a wide range of sources--from Indian Punjabi folk costumes to Native American beading--the designs in this inventive resource fuse materials such as silver, copper wire, seed beads, Czech glass, and crystals into these traditional arts in order to achieve a unique outcome. All of the basic beadweaving stitches, wirework, and stringing techniques are explained and illustrated.

Rachel Nelson-Smith's Bead Riffs

Rachel Nelson-Smith's Bead Riffs
Author: Rachel Nelson-Smith
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Beadwork
ISBN: 9781600597831

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The Master beader and author of Seed Bead Fusion explains her jazz-inspired personal techniques for stitches like the right-angle weave and the tubular peyote stitch and provides projects for intermediate beaders including a necklace and stackable rings.

Getting Started with Seed Beads

Getting Started with Seed Beads
Author: Dustin Wedekind
Publisher: Interweave
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1596689757

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Author Dustin Wedekind takes readers through the process of working with seed beads, from shopping to storing and from stringing to sewing a successful beginning project.

Boho Embroidery

Boho Embroidery
Author: Nichole Vogelsinger
Publisher: Lucky Spool
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781940655208

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Let's talk about tools -- Let's talk about my favorite stitches -- Let's talk about fabric -- Let's talk about stitching outside the hoop -- Let's talk about inspiration to stitch -- Let's talk about thrifting for old treasures -- Let's talk about stitching what you see.

Creative Seed Bead Connections

Creative Seed Bead Connections
Author: Teresa Meister
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0871164795

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Theresa Meister’s fine-scale wirework provides structure, and her beaded patterns bring on the color! Colorful seed beads, pearls, and crystals are used to create delicate jewelry components. Now link all these components together with wirework connections including wire loops, chain, and jump rings. The results are thirteen jewelry sets (each set includes a necklace, bracelet, and earrings) plus variation ideas giving readers a lot of options for exploring techniques. All jewelry makers will find this wearable jewelry to be classy and timeless.

A Beaded Romance

A Beaded Romance
Author: Kelly Wiese
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440232318

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Indulge your passion for beading! The author of Beaded Allure is back with more exquisite, enticing jewelry you will love. Kelly Wiese ensures that all eyes will be on you with 26 dazzling designs for creating necklaces, bracelets, earrings and more. She covers basic beadweaving techniques and stitches, then expertly guides you through each project step by step. Inside A Beaded Romance, you'll find: • 11 beading stitches that are easy to learn, with additional information on tools, materials and techniques. • 26 projects with detailed instructions, photos and difficulty ratings that will allow beaders of all skill levels to dive right in. • Jewelry patterns for every style, whether it's charming or seductive, modern or classic. Get swept away in A Beaded Romance!

Creative Beading Vol. 4

Creative Beading Vol. 4
Author: Editors of Bead&Button Magazine
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-11-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0871167875

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Comprised of projects that appeared in Bead&Button magazine between October 2007 and August 2008, the 82 designs in this book have been thoroughly tested by the magazine’s readers and editors. The projects utilize a number of techniques, including stringing, wirework, chain mail, bead crochet, and loom weaving, and they are illustrated by 900 full-color, step-by-step photographic instructions.

The Art of Beaded Beads

The Art of Beaded Beads
Author: Jean Campbell
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579908256

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Beaders everywhere are discovering the extraordinary creative potential and pleasure of making unique, one-of-a-kind beads from existing beads themselves. This lushly illustrated guide. now in a paperback version, offers them a blast of inspiration, with 40 fabulous designs from today?s finest beadwork artists. Ranging from understated to pure dazzling glam, these projects showcase a range of innovative techniques. Among the standouts: a peyote-stitched Tetrahedron Beaded Bead; a Peek-A-Boo Bead, using steel nuts from the hardware store; and a cylinder-shaped Pi?ata Bead, decorated with smaller beads resembling tiny, colorful party balloons.

Beading 101

Beading 101
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Beadwork
ISBN: 9781562319984

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Jewelry Designs from Nature: Woodlands, Gardens, Sea

Jewelry Designs from Nature: Woodlands, Gardens, Sea
Author: Heather Powers
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-08-29
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0871167646

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In Jewelry Designs from Nature, Heather Powers reveals her creative process and guides readers through 30 nature inspired bracelet, necklace and earring projects. Her designs feature her beads and the beads of other well-known artists. Simple techniques such as stringing, wirework and bead stitching are explained with clear step-by-step directions. Pieces are designed with simple techniques, chain, wire, findings, crystals, seed beads and art beads in standard sizes. Readers can recreate the pieces or choose their own beads to personalize projects. Heather Powers shows readers that there is a method behind using simple stringing and other basic jewelry-making techniques to produce jaw-dropping results.