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Basics of Bead Stringing - $8.95
A Complete Illustrated Approach for Beginner and Advanced Designers
by Debbie Kanan
Soft cover, 5.5" x 8.5", 82 pages.

The Basics of Bead Stringing

Make a fashion statement with your own beautiful handcrafted jewelry! Packed with techniques, projects and insider tips, Bead On A Wire is all you need to make stunning beaded wire jewelry. Author Sharilyn Miller shares her enthusiasm, experience and expertise to make this book a must-have for jewelry-makers of all skill levels. So whether you're beginning your first bracelet or your hundredth, you're sure to find inspiration.

Bead On A Wire features a comprehensive introductory section and more than 20 step-by-step projects. With clearly illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to:
- Construct jewelry without soldering tools or other intimidating equipment
- Fashion beautiful earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and fibulas not readily found in stores
- Stock your jewelry toolkit with only the necessary tools
- Make jump rings, links, clasps and other basic jewelry components to keep on hand for future projects
- Create project variations and new designs with your own one-of-a-kind look

Techniques presented include: Working With Jewelry Pliers, Cleaning and Cutting Wire, Hammering Wire, Making a Spiral, Making Jump Rings, Making Twisted Wire Jump Rings, Making a Simple Eye Pin, Making a Basic Coil, Making a Single-Coiled Bead Wrap, Making a Wrapped Eye Pin Link, Making a Bead Dangle With a Single Eye Pin, Making a Bead Dangle With a Double Eye Pin, Making a Bead Connector, Making a Coiled-Wire Bead Wrap, Making a Double-Coiled Wire Bead Wrap, Making a Caged Bead, Making and Joining Easy Links, Making and Joining S Links, Making a Circle Link, Making a Heart Link, Making a Hook-and-Eye Clasp, Making a Hook Clasp for Linked Jewelry, Making an S Clasp, Making an S Clasp With a Bead, Making a "Big Hook" Clasp, Making a Pendant Suspender, Making a Pendant Dependant, Sharpening and Filing Wire to a Point, Making Charms from Leftover Wire, Artificially Aging Jewelry, and Sharilyn's Tips for Jewelry Making.

Illustrated, step-by-step projects presented include: Hoop Earrings, Circle Link Bracelet, Beaded Bangle, Classic Fibula, Bead-Wrap Bracelet, Shepard's Hook Earrings, Simple Jump Ring Bracelet, Arty Choker, Delicate Pendant, Jump Ring Charm Bracelet, Linked Hearts Bracelet, Caged Bead Necklace, Bead Drop Jewelry, Abstract-Shaped Pin, Heart Link Convertible Jewelry, Coiled Wire Bangle, Party Watch, S Link Charm Bracelet, Milagro Charm Necklace, and Twin-Spiral Bracelet.

Never again will you have to hunt for the perfect necklace to match your new outfit. Now with Bead On A Wire, you can create jewelry that suits your style, fits your wardrobe and reflects your personality.

The Beader's Companion

Beading With Cabochons shows you step-by-step how to combine an amazing variety of cabochons and beads on sophisticated jewelry. Both beads and cabochons offer virtually unlimited creative opportunities for jewelry artists. Jamie Cloud Eakin shows you the basic techniques and the unique stitches she developed over more than a decade. Her projects range from a pair of double-cabochon earrings to and elaborately fringed dichroic glass necklace. With so many cabochons and beads to chose from, each piece you make will be one of a kind.

The step-by-step projects include: Fringed Dichroic Glass Necklace, Oval Solitaire Rhodonite Bracelet, Noondrite Jasper Necklace, Sea Moss Ladder Bracelet, Double Cabochon Dangle Earrings, Leopardskin Jasper Necklace, Black Onyx Pin, Victorian Triple Cabochon Bracelet, Southwest Spirit Necklace, Fringed Tiger-Eye Cabochon Earrings and Crazy Lace Agate Pin.

Chapters include: 1 Materials and Tools, 2 Basic Cabochon Beading, 3 Edge Stitches, 4 Attachment Methods, 5 Other Bezel Stitches, 6 The Projects, and 7 Creating Your Own Designs. Also included is a photo gallery of beaded cabochon jewelry by talented artists, an appendix on attaching findings, an index to stitches and a note about suppliers.

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Creative Native American Beading features colorful artistic themes inspired by nature which have cultural meaning to the native peoples of North America. Author Theresa Flores Geary shows how to create a variety of beautiful, traditional beaded projects using contemporary tools and materials. In earlier times, for example, Native beaders often worked on leather. Although leather is a supple material, it's not comparable to synthetics such as Ultrasuede®, through which a needle glides smoothly.

Creative Native American Beading gives you a quick course in reading beading patterns, familiarizes you with the basic stitches, and provides some design tips. It then presents a assortment of nineteen useful and decorative projects ranging in skill levels from beginner to advanced for you to complete or use as a starting point for your own designs.

The illustrated projects include Rock-Art Pottery, Badge-Holder Necklace, White Buffalo Calf Earrings, Sun-Rosette Medallion, Zuni Triple-Strand Bracelet, Horsehair Hatband, Coyote Pottery Earrings, Free-Form Peyote Bracelet, Blue Violet flower, Rope Eyeglass Holder, Thunderbird Lighter Case, Waterbird Tobacco or Medicine Bag, Huichol-Lace Sun Catcher, Ladder-Chain Bracelet, Dream-Catcher Ornament, Southwest Gecko Pin, Sage Bear Sachet, Native American Maiden, and Blue Kokopelli Amulet Bag. Addendums include Bag Patterns, Beadwork Glossary and Index.

Flameworking will show you how to manipulate hot glass to make beautiful flameworked shapes and objects that you'll assemble into larger sculptural and functional pieces. These techniques are the most accessible way to begin working with hot glass and are fully explained in this groundbreaking book. If you already have some experience, you'll find many new flameworking techniques with which to express your artistic vision. The detailed and easy to follow exercises, brought to life by sophisticated projects, will enable you to build a series of skills with each one you complete.

The Introduction present Glass Basics; Setting Up Your Studio; Healing "Devit," Creases, and Cracks; Color, Glorious Color!; and Glass Rods and Tubing.

The Exercises cover: 1 Making Gathers, Experimenting with Gravity, and Fusing Rods; 2 Making a Leaf and Variations; 3 Embellishing Leaves; 4 Making Marias and Transitional Shapes; 5 Casing a Clear Rod with Color; 6 Making a Heart Shape; 7 Making a Fish Shape with Frit Color; 8 Making a Flower; 9 Making Icicles with Stripes; 10 Working with Tubing; and 11 Making a Candleholder.

The Projects include: 1 Versatile Plant Stakes; 2 Flowers with Leaves and Stems; 3 Colorful Suncatcher; 4 Kinetic Leaf Mobile; 5 Candlestick with Transitional Shapes; 6 Decorative Glass Candies; 7 Beads as Glass Sculpture; 8 Tall Candlestick with Fish Motif; 9 Heart Wall Sculpture; 10 Flower Candleholder; and 11 Fish Sculpture.

An 18-page gallery of flameworked glass pieces by contemporary artists provides inspiration and an appreciation for the versatility of glass as an artistic medium. If you want to learn to flamework glass or are interested in the tools and techniques involved in flameworking, you will appreciate this book.

In this book you'll discover the art of glass beadmaking and learn many of the secrets that were guarded for centuries by Venetian glassmakers. You'll gradually build your expertise, beginning with the basic methods for making and decorating beads and working up to more advanced approaches. Dozens of techniques are described in step-by-step detail, and the text is liberally seasoned with "hot tips", each designed to make learning easier and more fun. Making Glass Beads is lavishly illustrated with how-to photography and photos of works by more than 50 contemporary bead makers, all in full color, making it a practical handbook and inspirational artists' gallery all in one volume.

Making Glass Beads is organized into six major chapters: A History of Glass & Glass Breads, Getting Started, Making a Basic Bead, Simple Variations, Taking the Next Step, and Advanced Techniques. Among the topics covered are basic tools & supplies, specialized tools, setting up a work station, safety tips, preparing mandrels, igniting the torch, forming a bead, extinguishing the torch, removing your bead from the mandrel, finishing touches, shaping your beads, overwraps, multicolored beads, spots, dots & eyes, stripes & trails, pulling stringer, fun with stringer, raked patterns, mixing colors, ribbon cane, twisties, making your own filigrana & cased stringer, combining, feathering, side-shifting, & furrowing, pinching, poking, snipping & plunging, adding metals, inclusions and surface treatments, commercial millefiori, making your own millefiori, cased beads, dichroic glass, sculpted beads, hollow beads, buttons, marbles, and core vessels. Three appendices cover jewelry-making basics, the nature of glass, and trouble-shooting.

Create 40 beautiful, one-of-a-kind beads in shimmering silver, copper, gold and other metals. Comprehensive and profusely illustrated, Making Metal Beads is an exceptional reference presenting many innovative design ideas and inventive techniques that will expand your jewelry-making skills.

Start by familiarizing yourself with the tools involved and how to use them correctly. Master the basics of metalsmithing that you'll need to create the projects, then learn how to finish and string your beads, making them into stunning jewelry.

Some projects will teach you how to embellish store-bought beads with eye-catching decorative elements or transform their surface in unusual ways. For example, hammering a pointed stamping tool around a bead will leave a slight impression, while using a torch to heat the surface will produce a fine reticulated texture in just seconds. Sawing patterns of fine lines around a bead's outer edge is another way to produce a unique effect.

Other projects involve creating a bead from scratch. Try cutting and capping commercial tubing and enhancing the pieces with patterned, twisted or beaded wire; weaving tiny baskets; and fusing wire into cylindrical grids. Use a hydraulic press to push sheet metal into a dimensional form with softly flowing organic shapes or geometric contours. Or wrap patterned, textured, or hammered sheet metal into a shape that looks similar to a crescent dinner roll.

To further inspire you, many talented artists have contributed color photographs of their own exceptional designs. Your varied and distinctive projects will look exceptional strung alone or mixed with gem or glass beads.

The how-to in Making Metal Beads is organized into 8 chapters. The Basics presents the fundamentals of Sawing, Filing, Sanding, Drilling, Piercing, Forming, Soldering, Finishing, and Stringing. Transforming Commercial Beads covers Stamping & Chasing Round Beads, Cutting & Dimpling Beads, Reticulating Beads, Soldering Wires to Beads, Soldering Balls to Beads and Soldering Sheet Metal to Beads. Making Cold-Connected Beads shows you how to make The Tube-Riveted Double-Dome Bead, The Notched Interlock Bead, The Notched Center Connector Bead and The Woven Bead. Making Beads From Tubing provides how-to for making The Basic Tube Bead, Embellishing Tube Beads with Cold Techniques, The Wire-Wrapped Tube Bead, and The Reshaped Tube Bead.

Making Soldered Double-Dome Beads illustrates techniques for making The Double-Dome Bead with Centered Holes, The Double-Dome Bead with Holes through the Rim and Embellishing Double-Dome Beads. Making Fused Beads shows you how to make The Round or Saucer-Shaped Fused Bead and The Tubular Fused Bead. Making Beads With The Hydraulic Press provides how-to for making The Matrix Die-Formed Bead and The Pressed Tube Bead. Making More Metal Beads presents The Square Bead, The Crescent Roll Bead and the Eight-Dome Bead.

Appendices include Templates & Charts, Acknowledgements, Index, Contributing Artists, About the Author, and Notes on Suppliers. Readers will appreciate Making Metal Beads for its lavish color photographs and the ideas and inspirations provided by many gallery pages illustrating metal beads designed and created by skilled smiths and bead making artists.

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