History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
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Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
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Making Your Own Beads (MORE in this category)
(paperback) 80 pages, colour (2005) £18.95 + £ 1.50 p&p (Code no sp3844) Comprehensive instruction book directly from the master artist who originated the kiln formed bracelet technique. Create 3-dimensional art glass bracelets using specialised techniques and tools which Jayne developed. She reveals her secrets using action photos and easy to understand instructions. Thirteen chapters covering tools, sizing, preparation, bracelet forming, adjustments, embossing, cane fabrication, pattern bar making, plus much more. These bracelets will offer glass fusers and jewellery makers alike a delightful way to expand their skills. . |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture
of Beads - Glass Beads
(paperback) 32 pages, colour (2005) £11.95 + £1.50 p&p (Code no sp3734) Akihiro Ohkama, one of the best contemporary Japanese beadmakers, is the tenth in Jim Kerwin's featured beadmakers and this book gives the reader a chance to learn more about him and his work and share some of his beadmaking secrets, and Japanese equipment and techniques. There is a colourful gallery of his work, plus instructions for making laticcino bead, murrine bead, geometric ribbon bead, butterfly pendant, cherry blossom bead and stone lily bead. . |
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History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(hardback) 224 pages, colour photos throughout £45.00
+ £6.75 p&p (Code No. sp3226) If you are a glass beadmaker put this new edition of Corina's bestseller on your list of MUST HAVE's!! Packed with information, this book has been hailed as "indispensable" by both novice and seasoned beadmakers alike. Learn everything from how to hold your mandrel to how to make frog beads. Step-by-step photos enable you to see how a variety of beads come together. If you can only afford ONE beadmaking book, Passing the Flame should be it!! |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(paperback) 408 pages, colour photos throughout (2004) £16.95 + £5.95 p&p A very substantial, heavy book crammed with page after page of luscious colour
photos of many varieties of glass beads made by different contemporary
glass beadmakers, described as “1000 tiny masterpieces literally
glowing with creativity”. |
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Making
Your Own Beads (MORE
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(paperback) 80 pages, colour photos throughout (2003) £14.95 + £2.25 p&p An illlustrated tutorial on the techniques of art glass fusing, Filled with easy to follow step-by-step photos, useful tip sidebars and complete project instructions. There are project-by-project guided lessons showing a comprehensive range of glass fusing techniques which will help develop skills in preparation, assembly and kiln-firing nethods. There is also a troubleshooting questions and answers section. The projects include jewellery. |
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History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Collectable Beads
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(paperback) 156 pages, col and b&w photos (2003) £19.95 + £3.00 p&p This book on glass and semi-precious stone beads in history and archaeology is a must for archaeologists, bead collectors, jewellery historians - in fact anyone interested in different kinds of beads from around the world and through time. It is a series of eleven individual articles on glass and hard stone ornaments surviving from ancient societies and those made and worn by some traditional communities in the modern world. Earlier versions of many of the chapters were presented at the symposium "Bead STudies after Beck" organised by the Bead Study Trust and held in the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge in April 1997. The symposium was timed to coincide with the publication of the first volume of the catalogue of the Beck Collection of beads in the University Museum of Archaeology & Ethnography, The Bead Study Trust Catalogue of the Beck Collection Part 1: Europe. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, papers include ones on Horace Beck, Mycenaean beads, Scandinavian and Viking beads, Sassanian beads, Celtic bead-making sites, SE Asian etched stone beads, African powder glass beads, bead making in Ghana and Stone beads from Myanmar (including 'pumtek'). |
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History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Collectable Beads
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(paperback) 168 pages, col photos and maps (2003) £15.95 + £2.75 p&p Beads are culturally, historically and archaeologically important in Ghana. Thgis book introduces beads in Ghana through the histories of living people who wear, trade or produce beads. Also as part of the project to conserve and display the Museum of Archaeology bead collection, the book aims to explain how the beads in the collection came to Ghana and how they were used. There are chapters on the wearers of beads, importers and traders, bead producers, the Crossland bead collection in the Museum of Archaeology, beads in the archaeological record in Ghana, and methods of manufacturing glass beads. Plus a republication of two articles - A method of bead making in Ashanti by G E SInclair (first published in 1939) and The Mysterious Aggrey Bead by J E J M van Landewijk (first published in 1970-71). |
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History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(hardback) 152 pages, col photos throughout (2003) £19.95+ £5.00 p&p Cindy's long-awaited second book, companion to Making Glass Beads. This is an amazing colourful display of what some of the world's best glass beadmakers have to offer (and that includes UK's homegrown premier glass beadmaker Diana East!). It has two sections - one on the artists themselves, and some of the types of beads they make - this is a stunning gallery!!. The second is a clearly written and illustrated section where the artists share their techniques and ideas in clear photographic form. So this book is a must for glass beadmakers, collectors, and those who just appreciate amazing glass beads! |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture
of Beads - Glass Beads (paperback) 160 pages, colour & b/w photos throughout (2000) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p Sybille's 4th glass book parallels ethnic (non-European) and folk (European) traditional jewellery and costumes in silver and glass.
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KILN FORMED BRACELETS
AKIHIRO
OHKAMA. Introduction to Japanese Beadmaking Techniques
PASSING THE FLAME (2nd edition)
1000
GLASS BEADS Innovation & Imagination in Contemporary Glass Beadmaking
L'ARTE
VETRERIA - THE ART OF GLASS Vol 1
INTRODUCTION TO GLASS FUSING
ORNAMENTS
FROM THE PAST: BEAD STUDIES AFTER BECK
THE
BEAD IS CONSTANT
BEADS
OF GLASS The Art & the Artists
ETHNIC
JEWELRY FROM AFRICA, EUROPE AND ASIA