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Give your knitting a touch of sparkle! Judith Durant shows you how to add beads to any knitting pattern using five easy-to-learn techniques. It's simple, fun, and can be done right on your knitting needles. With step-by-step instructions for each technique, as well as 16 original patterns, you'll be turning simple bags and wearables into stunning special-occasion creations in no time. From eye-catching knit caps to surprisingly intricate socks, you'll...
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Creative Publishing International
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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This comprehensive reference fully explores the various types of beadwork, including beading on fabric, fringing, bead weavings, bead embroidery, and beaded jewelry. With easy-to-follow organization, thisguide provides step-by-step directions and 500 full color photos for clear understanding. Basic projects provide opportunities for crafters to try the techniques, and galleries of unique beaded designs and creations by various bead artists offer beautiful...
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Krause
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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"Contains more than 300 fabulous bead designs with dozens of applications for purses, pendants, chokers, necklaces, bracelets, napkin rings, and picture frames. Packed with designs for loom and off-loom weaving. Includes core techniques such as finishing your design, adding clasps, earwires, and pin backs. Each and every design is charted in full color using realistic bead graphics PLUS a photograph to show the finished piece. Essential information...
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Fill the year ahead with handcrafted beads that you can make yourself by following tutorials from Bead-Making Lab! Imagine a year in beads. We're talking 52 handmade varieties all handcrafted by you! Bead-Making Lab makes this bounty of bead making possible with instructions for bead designs that run the gamut from sophisticated to playful. Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book...
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Design Originals
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Beading is a fun craft that can produce beautiful custom pieces for every occasion imaginable, but if you've never tried to make your own necklaces bracelets, the task can seem a little daunting. What type of fasteners are best to use? Where can you find the best materials to work with? And just what can you create once you have everything you need? In Simple Beginnings in Beading, renowned artist Suzann Sladcik Wilson will put all these questions...
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Search Press Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Beaded jewelry is popular among crafters as it requires very little by way of tools or materials. Jewelry School: Bead Stringing, written by Carolyn Schulz, author of Jewelry School: Let's Start Beading, helps the reader to make attractive, wearable items of beaded jewelry in no time. Bead Stringing is a progression from Let's Start Beading, and focuses on the specifics of bead stringing, teaching the reader more advanced beading techniques.The book...
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Creative Publishing International, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Create 23 cute and clever bugs and little crawly critters out of beads, wire, and other craft materials with Bead Bugs! Each project is shown in step-by-step photos with clear instructions that anyone can follow. Variations of each project encourage the crafter to imagine all kinds of ways to make the bugs unique. Bead bugs and critters can be used in various ways as ornaments, put on display, made into jewelry, made into mobiles, displayed in a terrarium,...
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A Clever Twist on Simple Stringing
Washers, snaps, fishing tackle, resin: Nothing is safe with a crafty lady in the house. Get ready to break tradition and combine beads with common materials used in unconventional ways to make beautiful jewelry. You'll learn how to use nail polish to create the look of enamel, and how to link together cut-up credit cards into a playful bracelet. Or try mixing stainless steel washers with wire and beads...
Washers, snaps, fishing tackle, resin: Nothing is safe with a crafty lady in the house. Get ready to break tradition and combine beads with common materials used in unconventional ways to make beautiful jewelry. You'll learn how to use nail polish to create the look of enamel, and how to link together cut-up credit cards into a playful bracelet. Or try mixing stainless steel washers with wire and beads...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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This concise volume documents a fascinating and unique art form - Native American beadwork. Including examples of handiwork from Eastern woodlands and Plains Indians, the author offers a clear, illuminating discussion of the origins, execution, and symbolism of Indian beadwork used to ornament belts, garters, pouches, and much more. Over 300 figures.
