History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(paperback) 336 pages, colour (2008) £17.95 + £4.85 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4062) The forty master bead artists featured in this collection challenge and expand the traditional boundaries of the medium of hot glass. Stunning colour photographs showcase the finest examples of their work, artist commentaries offer insights into the creative process and concise introductions describe techniques and inspirations. Artists include UK beadmaker Diana East, and a whole host of Japanese and US beadmakers (too numerous to mention all by name!!). A gallery of amazing eye-candy not to be missed out of anyone's bead library. |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(hardback) 144 pages, colour (2008) £14.99 + £3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4059) A wonderfully inspiring book for glass beadmakers who want to take their work to the next level. Through a workshop-based approach the author teaches skills and techniques which are new and different. She shows materials which have emerged on the glass beadmaking scene during recent years and inspires beadmakers to find their own aesthetic. Ten workshops each focus on completing a singular bead and offer variations which will help beadmakers reinterpret these designs to make their own pieces. Projects include Falling Leaves Bead (explores versatility of copper foil), Beach Bead (copper, enamels, a speciality bead press and sandblasting, Geode Bead (copper leaf, enamels and silver wire), Off-Mandrel Galaxy Pendant (asymmetrical shapes and silver mesh), Blown Hollow Bead, Twistle Pendant, Hollow Vessel Bead, Wreath Bead (speciality press & complex canes), Rune Bead and Rose Bead (mimic any flower). Appendices on sandblasting, grinding and polishing, and galleries of beads throughout. |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(paperback) 80 pages, colour (2005) £18.95 + £ 1.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (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
(hardback) 224 pages, colour photos throughout £53.00 + £6.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (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 Discount p&p offer! - click here 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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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads
(paperback) 80 pages, colour photos throughout (2003) £14.95 + £2.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here 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 Discount p&p offer! - click here 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 - Glass Beads
(hardback) 152 pages, col photos throughout (2003) £20.95+ £5.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here 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 ANATOLSKE GLASPERLER (hardback) 72 pages, 105 colour plates & b&w illustrations (1996) £19.95 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Glass beads in western Anatolia (Turkey). Main text in Danish with a 4-page English summary and English figure and photo captions. Photographs are a major part of the book |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads GLASS, GLASS BEADS & GLASSMAKERS IN NORTHERN INDIA (paperback) 32 pages, Colour & b&w plates + b&w illustrations (1995) £6.50 + £1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Traditional glass work (including bead production) in the area around Agra. Details of working techniques, products etc. |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads GLASS BEADS FROM EUROPE (paperback) 192 pages, 495 colour photos (1995) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Beadmaking industries of Europe, with the various worldwide uses of European beads from antiquity to the present day. |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads GLASS IN JEWELRY: Hidden Artistry in Glass (paperback) 176 pages, 400+ colour photos (1991) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Glass jewelry and beads made for the European and N American markets. Beadmaking traditions including how beads were made. |
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History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads BAUBLES, BUTTONS & BEADS: The Heritage of Bohemia (paperback) 176 pages, colour photos throughout (1993) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Manufacture of glass beads, jewellery & other trinkets in the Gablonz region (Bohemia) through the 19th & 20th centuries. |