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OFF-LOOM WOVEN BEAD NECKLACES

Deb DiMarco

(pb) 112 pages, colour (2009) £17.95 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5202)

A comprehensive guide to off-loom, see-bead weaving using square stitch. Over 220 colour photos illustrate the step-by-step instructions which clearly explain the stitching and joining techniques. Three necklace designs feature easily available beads and artist handmade glass beads in a palette of seasonal colours. Further sections on matching brracelets, and a gallery of other designs.

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BEADED COLLARS

By Julia S. Pretl

(paperback) 112 pages, colour (2007) £12.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4038)

Julia Pretl, author of extremely successful books such as Bead Knitted Bags and Little Bead Boxes has now produced this guide to decorative neckpieces built with ladder stitch. By joing and combining simple bead 'ladders' she has created a collection of elegant neckpieces inspired by broadcollars - the dramatic jewellery worn by the ancient Egyptians. Julia has re-invented the form - a broad beaded necklace - to create 10 original designs in an array of beautiful colours and styles. Use a basic ladder, build a custom-sized template, choose a colour palette and create the decorative layers, pendants and netting to add just the right finish.

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INNOVATIVE BEADED JEWELLERY TECHNIQUES

By Gineke Root

(paperback) 56 pages, colour (1994) £6.95 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4019)

A much-awaited reprint of this very popular beadwork jewellery book which focuses on different types of spirals. Originally translated from the Dutch 1988 publication Kralen: Geregen tot Sieraden, it has been out of print for a number of years, but those new beaders looking for a copy will now be able to add this standard reference work to their library.

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EASY BEAD STITCHES: NETTING

By Bead & Button Projects: Easy-Does-It Series

(paperback) 16 pages, colour (2006) £5.25 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3837)

Collect the Easy-Does-It series! Each booklet in this Bead & Button magazine collection gives you all the instructions you need to make beautiful, fashionable beaded projects at an excellent value price. Easy Bead Stitches: Netting uses one of the easiest beading stitches to learn  simply link rows of beads to make a fabric resembling a fisherman s net. Create many shapes and textures with one versatile stitch  sleek bandsm ruffled flowers, lacy stars, basic tubes and more. 7 great jewellery projects for necklaces and bracelets.

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BEADED DAISY CHAIN JEWELLERY

By Anna Peters

(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2006) £12.95 + £ 2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3869)

This book guides you through the basics of the daisy chain technique to create a stylish collection of beautiful accessories. It is crammed with inspirational designs and creative ideas for beginners to experienced beaders. The 40 inspirational projects from necklaces and chokers to brooches and bracelets as well as bags, rings and even beaded butterflies are not just simple designs, but complex creations using the same technique as a simple chain. Also very useful empty charts in daisy chain graphs for designing all sizes of your own pieces. .

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MINERVA SPIRALS An Adventure in Beaded Ropes

By The Minerva Beaders

(paperback spiral bound) 56 pages, colour (2007) £10.00 + £ 1.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3849)

This book was written by members of the Minerva Beaders group and explores a basic technique, but develops it into an exciting and enticing selection of beaded ropes for the reader to try. The book is a project which supports Bangari and Tsokodeka primary Schools in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. .

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GERDANY: ASSORTED BEADWEAVING - LESSONS 2

By Maria M Rypan

(paperback) 24 pages, B&W and colour (2004) £15.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3637)

The fourth of Maria's very successful Ukrainian-style beadwork books with 11 patterns for more necklaces, bracelets and earrings. See also Assorted Beadwork 1, Netted Jagged Mesh and Netted Mesh Collars.

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BEADING HER IMAGE

By Margie Deeb

(paperback) 43 pages, colour (2005) £16.95 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3638)

The latest of Margie Deeb's advanced pattern books with 15 large colourful and complex patterns with images of women. Patterns are for flat beadwork neck pieces, wallhangings and bracelets made by loom weaving, peyote, square and brick stitch. Patterns include Veil, Glamour, Golden Earring, Priestess, Deva, Amira, Snake Goddess, Matriarch, Iris, Grace, Drifting, Mother Maiden Crone, The Twins, Sylph andAwakening.

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NETTING ALL THE WAY

by Galina Barsky & Varvara Konstantinov

(paperback) 96 pages, colour photos and b/w diags. (2004) £16.95 + £2.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code No. sp3216)

Another wonderful collection of patterns from Jewelry by Varvara - necklaces & collars, earrings and bracelets all using various netting techniques and based on styles and themes from around the world.

There are step-by-step instructions with detailed diagrams. New and innovative, Galina & Varvara hves really introduced something else new and exciting here!

Varvara is Russian, but the text is all in English

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INTRODUCTION TO BEADWORK: NECKLACES (BEADWORKERS GUILD)

Ed by Jill Devon and Liz Thornton

(paperback combbound) 116 pages, colour throughout (2004) £12.95 + £1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Third in the series - this book has beadwork necklaces for the experienced beadworker and absolute beginner - Different designs for braids and chokers, collars, tubular ropes, spiral ropes, pendants and elements. Also includes extensive sections on basic techniques, design ideas and different stitches.
See also Introduction to Beadwork: Earrings and Introduction to Beadwork: Bracelets from the Beadworkers Guild.

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MY BEADED GARDEN

Varvara Konstantinov

(paperback) 76 pages, colour photos. b/w and col diags (2003) £16.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Don't be fooled by the cover of this book - it's not another "make beaded flowers" book!! It is a wonderful collection of eleven patterns for complex beaded necklaces and collars using floral designs and techniques using thread not wire, and one bouquet of roses (using wire).
There are step-by-step instructions with detailed diagrams. New and innovative, Varvara has really introduced something else new and exciting here!

Varvara is Russian, but the text is all in English

 

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BEADWORK CREATES NECKLACES

by Jean Campbell

(hardback) 112 pages, colour photos and diags. (2002) £12.95 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Second of another new series of project books from Interweave Press (the publishers of Beadwork magazine) by the editor. See also Beadwork Creates Bracelets.

30 sinuous, dazzling, must-have hand-beaded necklaces with complete easy-to-follow instructions. Uses off-loom bead techniques, stringing and wirework to create necklaces, chokers, collars and simple strands.

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GERDANY - BEADWORK UKRAINIAN-STYLE: NETTED JAGGED MESH

by Maria M Rypan

(combound) 23 pages, colour photos and B&W diags (2002) £13.50 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

One of three newly-published books in English bringing together various aspects of classical Ukrainian beadwork (see also Netted Mesh Collars and Assorted Beadwork).

This volume deals with collars and necklaces using pointed, chevron, dog-tooth or vandyke-style designs (whichever way you want to refer to beadwork with pendant triangular patterns!). Designs range in size from small to large. Why not adapt one of the large designs into an Indian-style bracelet/ring combination with a panel which sits on the back of the hand?

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ADVENTURES WITH BROAD COLLARS

by Bette Kelley

(paperback/comb-bound) 72 pages, colour photos and b/w diags throughout (2001) £15.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Bette's broad collar format is loosely based on the Egyptian style with additional influences from the Americas and the Victorians. There are 12 projects in 5 styles (using interlaced spike fringe, kinky fringe, loop fringe variations and Bette's 3_d fringe), and the book has basic techniques for making collars and the variety of their applications. Bette has been beading for 25 years, and her collars are in the personal collections of people throughout the USA, Canada and England!

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JUST BECAUSE

by Valerie Hixson

(paperback) 32 pages, colour photos and diags throughout (2001) £14.95 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Valerie's new book is just as creative and colourful as herprevious titles Bloomin' Beads and Wild Things. Primarily a pattern book with 15 brand new patterns for large flat impressive beaded necklaces and neck-pieces (and bracelets and earrings) using flat peyote and brick stitch. 37 full colour charts from easy to challenging!

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BLOOMIN' BEADS

by Valerie Hixson

(paperback) 32 pages, colour photos (1999) £16.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Pattern book for flower designs on flat bib necklaces, amulet purses etc. -- peyote, brick or square stitch and loom

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