Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(hardback) 128 pages, colour (2008) £14.99 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5003) If you can roll clay into a ball, you've got the basic skills needed to begin crafting beautiful low-fire ceramic beads. You can move and shape clay, cut it, roll it, join it and create designs on its surface, then fiore it in a kiln to become part of a piece of beautiful jewellery. The author takes you through every stage of the process of making and decorating and a variety of related techniques such as mould-making, glazing and firing. 30 colourful projects and an infinite number of beadmaking possibilities! |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 112 pages, colour (2008) £15.99 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4085) Create custom-made beads and art jewellery, and wear fabric in a whole new way! This book explores the infinite possibilities of beadmaking using mixed-media techniques and an exciting variety of fabrics and embellishments. Learn more than 30 ways to design spectacular fabrics, make handcrafted fabric beads and embellish them in unique ways, plus creat one-of-a-kind jewellery. 20 techniques using paint, crystals, wire and more. 10 stringing projects mixing handmade beads with purchased beads and findings. Sidebars, tips and bonus information on selecting successful colour palettes and an inspirational gallery of art jewellery featuring fabric beads. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(hardback internal spiral bound) 132 pages, colour (2008) £19.95 + £3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4087) A visually colourful, exciting and very useful how-to guide for glass beadmakers. Basic skills and 22 projects from an expert on glass bead making who specialises in mandrel-wound lampworked glass beads. Techniques for making a variety of shapes and sizes with step-by-step photographs for guidance. Lots of different designs and surface techniques, inclusions and 'Other Fun Stuff'. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 144 pages, colour (2008) £16.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4083) Jewellery expert Nancy Alden presents 51 stunning projects and indispensable design advice for elegant jewellery made carefully crafted lampwork, dichroic, seed and pressed glass beads. With brilliant photographs, clear instructions, a primer on the basics of jewellery making, resources for locating all the tools you need, and enlightening tidbits about the evolution and history of glass beads and bead-making, this book is a must-have for any jewellery maker's library. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2007) £12.99 + £ 2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4025) This book has more than 40 exquisite designs to fold and wear. Create elegant and exquisite beads, pendants, pins, earrings and much more using traditional folding skills and simple jewellery-making techniques. Every project includes a full materials listm, step-by-step folding and finishing instructions, a beautiful photograph of the finished piece, suggested colour variations and ideas for adapting the design and adding embellishments. Traditional origami designs include cranes, frogs, hearts, fans, leaves, flowers and kimonos. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 144 pages, colour (2007) £19.50 + £ 3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4011) From tiny glass beads and pendants to rings and necklaces - Creating Lampwork Beads teaches the lampworker how to make them all. This book is ideal for beginners, intermediate and advanced lampwork artists and features guidance and tips for setting up a studio and selecting the proper tools, detailed instructions with step-by-step photos for creating 16 different types of lampworked beads, 14 jewellery designs to help incorporate your beads into necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and pins. Discover new techniques you may have never tried before. Karen J Leonardo and her network of fellow artisans share their secrets for creating stunningly beautiful lampwork beads. |
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Beadwork - Embroidery/textile techniques (MORE in this category)
(hardback) 112 pages, colour (2007) £13.95 + £ 3.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3867) This book combines felting and jewellery-making techniques to create stunning earrings, necklaces, bracelets and other pieces. Learn how to craft a flat sheet of felt that can be cut or rolled, make sculptural shapes, add embellishments, including embroidery and beading, and more. There are 20 projects ranging in style from contemporary and playful to chic and sophisticated. . |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(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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Beads and Jewellery - Bead
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(paperback) 120 pages, colour (2006) £15.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3720) A cool idea and an amazing captivating range of fashion art which is sure to start a felting frenzy! Expert felter Carol Huber Cypher shares her secrets to making striking jewelry and accessories with beaded embellishment in this ultimate guide. No other hand-felting book is as comprehensive, offering tips on all the tools you'll need to begin and walking you gently through the process step-by-step. Start by creating the felted equivalent of lampworked (glass) beads, turquoise focal beads, mokume gane beads and dZi bead look-alikes. Then turn those handmade jewels into an elegant Rose Bolo, felted glass pendant, a Calla Lily necklace and more! With just a bag of wool, a needle or a bit of soap, water, thread and beads, you'll see just how simple it is to make truly original creations from felt. . |
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(hardback) 176 pages, colour (2005) £18.95 + £5.95 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3607) Illustrated with hundreds of how-to colour photographs, The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking takes you from the beginning to the advanced stages of this remarkable craft. Using an easy-to-follow workshop approach, the author introduces all the favourite glass bead techniques as well as some newer innovative ones. Each technique builds on the previous one in complexity, and from making the first bead shape to decorating it with surface treatments including enamel and gold leaf, the author offers a complete at-home course in this fascinating craft. A book to use for reference for years to come. |
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History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads (MORE
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(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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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(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 - Glass Beads (MORE
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(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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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 112 pages, colour plates throughout (1997) £9.95 + £3.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Making glass beads using lampworking hot-glass techniques. Basic tools, raw materials; reference book for collectors and researchers; contemporary beadmakers' work. |
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History,
Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Glass Beads (MORE
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(paperback) 144 pages, col photos & diags (2003) £17.95+ £3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Fourteen bead artists share their inspiration & methods and re-create glass beadmaking 30 projects. But this is a lot more than a how-to make glass beads book. Susan Ray takes the reader beyond the ordinary necklace design and stringing process into an inventive realm using the individual artists' beads to create fine jewellery and beaded accessories. make necklaces, earriungs, bracelets, spectacle chains, lariats and more and have a panoramic tour of the world of lampwirk beads and their creators. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 80 pages, colour photos (2002) £14.95 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Jayne Persico has been creating art glass masterpieces since 1972 and has practical experience in a wide range of methods and traditions. Her skills with stained glass cross paths here with her passion for jewellery design and her knowledge is blended here to create art glass jewellery. This is a how-to instruction format book for making fused glass pieces and making them into fantastically colourful and elegant jewellery. The colour photographs (many of multicoloured dichroic glass) are stunning. Many instructions and many projects to try.
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Making Your Own Beads - Glass, Fabric, Pottery and Paper
(paperback) 144 pages, colour photos throughout (2002) £14.95 + £3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here Although this book is edited by Suzanne Tourtillott, its five chapters about different materials with which to make your own beads are written by the individual authors above – in the same order the chapters are Felt, Paper, Polymer Clay, metal and Glass. These five talented designers have come up with some outstanding projects to introduce the reader to a variety of techniques and materials and the beads you can produce will reflect influences from around the world from Tibet to Africa. Each designer explains what you need to know about the materials, tools and methods which are within her area of expertise, followed by a series of projects for you to practice on. |
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