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MASTERS GLASS BEADS Major Works by Leading Artists

Curated by Larry Scott

(paperback) 336 pages, colour (2008) £17.95 + £4.85 p&p (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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GLASS BEAD WORKSHOP Building Skills, Exploring Techniques, Finding Inspiration

By Jeri L Warhaftig

(hardback) 144 pages, colour (2008) £19.95 + £3.00 p&p (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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KILN FORMED BRACELETS

By Jayne Persico

(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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PASSING THE FLAME (2nd edition)

by Corina Tettinger

(hardback) 224 pages, colour photos throughout £53.00 + £6.75 p&p (Code No. sp3226)
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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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1000 GLASS BEADS Innovation & Imagination in Contemporary Glass Beadmaking

Introduction by Cathy Finegan

(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”.
Use this book to examine magnificent glass bead works of art including jewellery and sculptural pieces from the top names in the field today, as well as works from emerging artists. Their exquisite designs reflect the diversity and innovation of beadmaking techniques from around the world and show how beads can be simultaneously fine art and functional, wearable and collectable glass treasures.
Look out for UK Glass beadmakers work in the book including Diana East’s enormous enamel and sandblasted glass bead in “Bars Bangle 2002” (p.313) and two of her amazing minaret beads “Aladdin’s Palace and Mosque 2002” (p.343), plus Pauline Holt’s “Starry Starry Night 2003” (p.34). See also 500 Beaded Objects from the same publisher.

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INTRODUCTION TO GLASS FUSING

Petra Kaiser

(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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ORNAMENTS FROM THE PAST: BEAD STUDIES AFTER BECK

(ed) I.C. Glover, H. Hughes-Brock & J Henderson

(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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BEADS OF GLASS The Art & the Artists

Cindy Jenkins

(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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ETHNIC JEWELRY FROM AFRICA, EUROPE AND ASIA

by Sibylle Jargstorf

(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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ANATOLSKE GLASPERLER

by Torben Sode

(hardback) 72 pages, 105 colour plates & b&w illustrations (1996) £19.95 + £2.50 p&p

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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GLASS, GLASS BEADS & GLASSMAKERS IN NORTHERN INDIA

by Jan Kock &Torben Sode

(paperback) 32 pages, Colour & b&w plates + b&w illustrations (1995) £6.50 + £1.25 p&p

Traditional glass work (including bead production) in the area around Agra. Details of working techniques, products etc.

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GLASS BEADS FROM EUROPE

by Sibylle Jargstorf

(paperback) 192 pages, 495 colour photos (1995) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p

Beadmaking industries of Europe, with the various worldwide uses of European beads from antiquity to the present day.

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GLASS IN JEWELRY: Hidden Artistry in Glass

by Sibylle Jargstorf

(paperback) 176 pages, 400+ colour photos (1991) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p

Glass jewelry and beads made for the European and N American markets. Beadmaking traditions including how beads were made.

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BAUBLES, BUTTONS & BEADS: The Heritage of Bohemia

by Sibylle Jargstorf

(paperback) 176 pages, colour photos throughout (1993) £24.95 + £4.50 p&p

Manufacture of glass beads, jewellery & other trinkets in the Gablonz region (Bohemia) through the 19th & 20th centuries.