This title comes with projects that are easy to make because no soldering is required - just basic wire shaping. Created by today's finest artisans, the remarkable projects in this best-selling volume showcase an incredible diversity of beads and wire types. The photographs alone will have beaders [...]
This is a stunning guide to one of the world's top bead embroiderer's techniques. One of the world's top bead embroiderers has produced a stunning guide to her techniques. Sherry Serafini's headliner pieces have won admirers, including many celebrities, for their lavish beaded surfaces. Here, Serafi[...]
This is by far the most attractive volume on ceramic bead-making anywhere. The 30 colourful jewellery projects are wonderfully simple and will be loved by crafters. Crafters will eagerly snap it up to learn how they can create a variety of striking projects using low-fire clay and a rainbow of colou[...]
This is the newest installment in the top-selling "Beadweaving Master Class" series features jewellery superstar Rachel Nelson-Smith. Nelson-Smith approaches beading like a jazz musician approaches a song; she improvises freely and creatively, playing unexpected variations on basic themes. Here, she[...]
From popular author Jamie Cloud Eakin comes a fantastic all-around bead-embroidery guidebook. Modeled on Eakin's acclaimed "Beading with Cabochons," "Dimensional Bead Embroidery" shows beaders how to use old stitches in new ways and lays out boundary-breaking techniques for embroidering beads onto a[...]
Inspired by life, created by you Create distinctive pieces that evoke wonderful memories, reflect your passions, or simply make you smile. A Bead in Time shows you how to take even the smallest slices of life and turn them into beaded works of art. From a favorite vacation spot to a beloved "furry f[...]
A simple spool of 28-gauge metallic wire, a handful of beads, jewelry clasps and findings, and a size G or H crochet hook are all the supplies needed to create these ultra-elegant necklaces by Jacqui Harris.[...]
Never have two distinct crafts paired as beautifully as knitting and beading. 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 fibre crafts with pretty beads, and jewel[...]
Creating stunning, professional-looking beaded jewelry is a snap with with Bead It with BeadworkInside you'll find 16 artisan projects featuring the attention-to-detail and clear instruction readers' have come to expect from Beadwork magazine. Each beautifully beaded necklace, pair of earrings, pin,[...]
A collection of 123 embroidery motifs using beads! More and more sewists and quilters are adding embroidered details to their work. While there are a bevy of embroidery-stitch dictionaries currently available, this book goes beyond basic stitches to full-fashioned designs. With a collection of 123 e[...]
Baubles, bangles, and beads have never been so stylish or so irresistible. Bead Bracelets from Threads Selects will spark your imagination with 15 charming projects that run the gamut from cute as a button vintage to contemporary woven bands. Whatever your experience in jewelry making, this 32-page [...]
Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. A new military regime has been in power for six months, but rumors are spreading that a countercoup is imminent. At an art exhibition in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, Remi Lawal, a Nigerian woman who runs her own greeting-card shop, mee[...]
Textured Bead Embroidery offers a new perspective on traditional bead embroidery. Author Linda Landy embraces the colors and shapes of all types of beads -- including cubes, drops, daggers, bugles, triangles, and more -- to create unique looks for beadwork. Beaders learn to make 12 creative textured[...]
Bead Play Every Day features over 20 projects with a creative twist on traditional stitching techniques. Stitchers will learn a single technique by making a small, easy to complete component. Then, through repetition and creative experimentation, they will take on a larger project to perfect the tec[...]
"Creative Beading Vol. 9" is a yearbook of projects from "Bead&Button" magazine. With a thorough basics section and helpful tips for readers, the book also includes over 75 editor-tested projects from the magazine. Inspiring and easy to follow, "Creative Beading Vol. 9" is divided into sections, wit[...]
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, [...]
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 hundr[...]
A must-have book for every beader, this is a comprehensive guide to designing and creating beautiful beaded jewelry using fundamental beading techniques. Features 35 colorful projects including earrings, necklaces, bracelets, lariats, and some jewelry sets. This book teaches the skills to make perfe[...]
Casual Bead Elegance, Stitch by Stitch features 24 projects in timeless bead stitches, starting with simple applications and expanding each stitch with more elaborate pieces. Though the focus is on learning and applying specific techniques, the resulting projects are wearable and casually elegant, u[...]
Jewelry makers are always on the lookout for quick, easy projects they can create to give as gifts or teach in on-site classes. In Ready, Set, Bead , popular teacher and designer Jane Danley Cruz offers more than 25+ projects that can all be created in less than four hours, some with variations and [...]
For years, fans have been asking for a new title from Internationally known artist and instructor Sherry Serafini, renowned for her lavish beaded surfaces -- and this book is it! Sherry's adventurous designs have appeared in numerous books and well-known magazines. Rock stars Steven Tyler, Lenny Kra[...]
Jewelry makers in search of stitching projects love Kalmbach's Creative Beading series, back for 2017 with its 12th volume. Inside this high-quality hardcover book, beaders will find 75+ projects from the latest year of Bead&Button magazine. All the projects are designed by the magazine's contributo[...]
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 d[...]