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Highlights
- Whether you're just starting out or looking to improve--this book is a comprehensive guide on how to make beautiful jewelry with beads!Bring the beading experts right into your home with this creative, easy-to-follow guide that's bursting with inspiration, encouragement, and even troubleshooting tips to keep your creative endeavors on track.
- Author(s): Jean Power
- 160 Pages
- Crafts + Hobbies, Beadwork
- Series Name: Learn It! Love It!
Description
About the Book
This award-winning jewelry designer shows beginners how to use stringing, beadwork, and wire to create stunning pieces. Includes hundreds of detailed how-to photographs, Quick Start projects, clinics to help students solve project dilemmas, and more.Book Synopsis
Whether you're just starting out or looking to improve--this book is a comprehensive guide on how to make beautiful jewelry with beads!
Bring the beading experts right into your home with this creative, easy-to-follow guide that's bursting with inspiration, encouragement, and even troubleshooting tips to keep your creative endeavors on track. Author and bead enthusiast Jean Power brings her skills to the page and introduces projects, alongside other beaded jewelry designers, that will grow your love of beading and get your jewelry making ideas flowing!
Bright, well-designed pages lay out the information in an easy-to-read format that guides you through beading basics 101 and beyond. From choosing the best tools to tackle designs to working through common issues, this book is the best resource a bead enthusiast can get outside a classroom!
This comprehensive guide includes:
- Hundreds of detailed how-to photographs for creative projects
- Patterns for necklaces, bracelets, and more
- Guidance on the right tools and materials; from knotting, stitching, and crocheting to looming
- "Quick start projects" for beginners eager to test their skills right away
- Inspiration for skilled designers looking to brush up on techniques
- Troubleshooting advice to help creators solve common problems
Review Quotes
"New to beading or want to learn a different technique? Then this is a great book to start with. Jean teaches you the basics of stringing, wirework, and beadwork, along with a section on findings, tools, and working with color. Using many photos and step-by-step instructions, each technique is described in detail and follows with several projects from guest designers. This is also a great book to use as a reference to brush up on techniques you may not use often."
--Bead & Button
"The presentation is highly visual, with full-color photographs and illustrations throughout to complement the instructions. VERDICT: Novice jewelry-makers in need of a visual guide to basic beadwork techniques will be drawn to this work."
--Library Journal