Customer Reviews

Creative Beading Vol. 4

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Clear instructions with plenty of projects for trying various bead weaving techniques. Beautiful photographs of the finished products as well as clear instruction diagrams. The best thing about the book is that it has plenty of seed bead projects which require 4-5 different colored / sized beads, good if you want to use existing stash of beads ; or if you need to buy beads , you don't have to splurge a lot.

This issue has a lot of my favorite projects in one place.

If you can use the articles in the magazine, you can use this book.

I like having the projects all in one book so I don't have to store or look through years of magazines to find the best projects.

Between the free downloads, the collected project books like this one, and single projects sold as .pdf files on the internet, I think the magazine is seriously competing with itself. Why would one subscribe to the magazine when you can just pick and choose the projects you want?

This is an excellent book with a variety of projects. I heartily recommend it.

the Creative Beading series is a must have for any bead artist's library. I already own the first three editions of this series so I pretty much knew what to expect. In my opinion the projects are well written out and will appeal to many crafters. I find the directions easy to understand and the diagrams easy to follow. I would judge the book to be more for intermediate to advanced beaders but I do believe a beginner would get a lot out of the material. I have long wanted to learn the Russian leaf technique so I was totally thrilled to find a wonderful tutorial for Russian Leaves included in this volume. Anyone who loves beads should be very happy with their purchase if they were to buy this book. The herringbone helix chain is another project that is on my to do list. All in all, Creative Beading Volume IV is definitely a keeper!

Any jewelry maker seeking a specific guide to beading inspirations will relish the 4th volume of CREATIVE BEADING, packing in color photos and step-by-step instructions tested by the editors of Bead & Button Magazine. From necklaces to bracelets to earrings, a range of editor-tested products assures success at all levels in this top pick.

Excellent book! I am a Bead & Button subscriber, but this book includes many of the projects I have earmarked in the magazines. Thank you for putting many of my favorites into one volume.

Hi,

I have found this book to very colorful with lots of yummy pictures to look at and it is full of details. It offers a lot of variety of patterns to make this fall. I am delighted to add this book to my addition of bead books.

mona lisa

A MOST HAVE! I mean it, Book 1, 2 3 and now 4, are the books to have for serious beaders looking to learn new techniques or just to have gorgeous patterns to create. Bead and Button are amazing that way: No ads, a few instruction pages and just great timeless projects.

This book has many beautiful designs, as do all of the Creative Beading volumes. We always look forward to a new volume being published as we know it will provide many hours of delightful and beautiful beading ideas!

I love this book, it has excellent projects that are very inspiring and the techniques can be used to design your own creations.

I would have liked to see more use of crystals but overall it is a good variety of methods, from seed beads to wire projects. Well worth the price.

Learning beading from books is hard for me, I would much rather see it done than read about it, but I had little trouble following the instructions in this book.

Atena Komar
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