Getting Started with Seed Beads
Seed beads are basic, essential materials in a beader’s stash, and this handbook gives beginning crafters a full course in how to work with them for great results. Seed beads come in a plethora of colors and materials and can be worked in an endless variety of stitches, which are taught in...
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Seed beads are basic, essential materials in a beader’s stash, and this handbook gives beginning crafters a full course in how to work with them for great results. Seed beads come in a plethora of colors and materials and can be worked in an endless variety of stitches, which are taught in chapters that progress from introductory to more challenging. The more than 20 projects teach and then combine techniques in projects guaranteed to impressfrom a simple beaded tin to a ladder ring to a tubular peyote-stitch rope of beaded beads. There is also a section on shopping for beads and equipment that will make new initiates comfortable as they explore the potentials of beading with seed beads. Filled with information and inspiration, this clear guide is a catalog of colorful and creative possibility.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781596689756 (1596689757)
Publish date: March 20th 2012
Publisher: Interweave Press
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Astonishing. Enough to make a person feel completely inadequate, besides. There are some jaw-droppingly exquisite pieces in this book. I keep hitting the renew button at the library and going through again and again, marveling at how artists given the same basic building blocks can come up with enti...