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Basic Beadwork for Beginners

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Now that you've built some 3-D skills using the projects in Ondori's Glass Bead Artistry, move on to more complex projects in this book. There are bunnies with pearl drop ears, bears in costumes and elephants for your bead circus, bead fish for your aquarium (no fish food or water filtration system required). Other theme items include Christmas, the Japanese doll festival, and the Asian New Year.

As with other Ondori books, the detailed instructions are via diagrams and not script.

The instructions are easy to follow and a lot of fun. I would like to have more books like this. I have had to adapt some of the instructions because I have not been able to find some of the beads specified in the instructions.

Despite the title, this is not an easy book. I bought it for my 10 year old daughter who is quite 'crafty', and enjoys making things with beads. While she hasn't yet attempted any of the projects, most of them appear quite complex, with minimal instructions provided. We'll see if it's actually as hard as it looks.

If you've already done projects in Beadlings (Julie Collings) or Geckos & other Animals (Drew Wilkens), then this wonderful book is the next logical step. The projects in Basic Beadwork for Beginners are rather fanciful, with fairies, costumed bears and bunnies, and characters from the Wizard of Oz.

Instructions are well laid out and diagramed and are easy to follow. I do think that maybe the projects are a bit more advanced than the title suggests and a wide variety of beads is required.

All in all, this is a great book with projects not seen elsewhere.

IT PERFECT FOR MY GRANDCHILD AND ALL PEOPLE THAT BEGINING IN THIS WORLD. WONDERFUL BOOK. THANK

This is the second of the Japanese beadwork books published by Ondori (the first being "Glass Bead Artistry" and the third being "The World of Beads") and is my least favourite of the three books, although still a very worthwhile book. Japanese beadwork or bead artistry is the art of making pictures or sculptures from small glass beads (seed beads) that have been threaded on to wire, which is then bent and twisted into shape. In this book, instructions are given for making assorted dolls and animals, as well as a Japanese doll festival set, Christmas decorations, musical instruments, jewellery and accessories. I, personally, preferred the projects in "Glass Bead Artistry" to those in this book (I thought they were cuter) but these projects are still pretty cute. However, there is a greater proportion of 2-dimensional projects in this book than in "Glass Bead Artistry", relative to the number of 3-dimensional projects and many of the 3-dimensional are made simply by pressing beads into a clay base, so this book is probably better suited to beginners.

As with "Glass Bead Artistry", there are colour photographs of the different projects provided throughout the book, and the instructions for making the projects are simple enough for a child to follow (although these projects would also appeal to adults - I'm 27 and I like them). The instructions generally take the form of an illustration showing the layout of the beads. My only criticism of this book is that some (but not all) of these instructional illustrations are given in black and white, making them more difficult to follow than their colour counterparts. It would have been preferable for all of the instructions to be given in colour. Nevertheless, this book and the other two Ondori books on this topic, are all excellent, and well worth your money.

The designs in Basic Beadwork for Beginners are beautiful! The directions are a bit hard to follow. I am not sure that the classification of Beginners is correct. Wonderful pictures of the finished items.

I really enjoyed this book. I have been an avid beader for about 8 years now and this book has given me even greater inspirations. I would like to see a book on flowers and flower arrangements from the persons who are doing the beading. Great Material.