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Beautiful Beads/How to Create Beautiful, Original Gifts and Jewelry for Every Occasion

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This is a great book for a beginning beader, or for anyone who wants to learn the basics of many different beadwork styles. Each project demonstrates a different way of working with beads, including stringing, wire work, weaving, and clothing decoration. The projects are illustrated with attractive color photos, and the materials shown are generally available in bead stores or or from mail-order bead sources.

This is a book for people who love beads so much, they want to use them on everything! The range of projects include jewelry made from a variety of techniques: stringing, knotting, connecting beads with wirework to other beads and to other jewelry findings such as spacer bars. The styles of necklaces and earrings are quite varied and include multi-stranded chokers, a tasseled necklace, dangly charm-style jewelry, and beaded rosette earrings and necklace.

There is a beaded watchband, woven bead bracelet, pendant, and belt. There's an assortment of items decorated with sewn-on beads, including a hat, camisole, pincushion, pillow, and vest. Two glued-beads projects include a harlequin mask and a pretty picture frame. A variety of other projects complete this list of choices.

The instructions are quite thorough and include easy-to-see drawings. Some previous experience with jewelry-making or sewing would be helpful, however.

I have always wanted to know how to do some of these things. Great instructions and pictures.