Glass Bead Artistry: Over 200 Playful Designs (Ondori S) [Paperback]

Ondori Staff (Author)

Book Description

Series: Ondori S | Publication Date: December 15, 1992

Full-color photos and line drawings explain how to make tiny, sparkling gifts of colored glass beads, including animals, sea life and creatures from outer space.

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About the Author

Ondori Staff is a Kodansha International author.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Japan Publications Trading; Early printing edition (December 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870408909
• ISBN-13: 978-0870408908
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,491,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great designs-buy it if you love bead art, March 19, 2001

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"lifeaftermambo" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glass Bead Artistry: Over 200 Playful Designs (Ondori S) (Paperback)

I bought this book because it is the best among the other bead art books. I actually discovered this book from the library and decided to borrow it and eventually purchased it online. Some designs are easy to do but those 3-d designs are quite complicated.Overall, i gave it 4 stars because i managed to create some really nice accessories for a first-timer like myself and the designs are more unique that normal bead art books. Recommended for those who are really into bead art and must be very patient cos it is time consuming!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CUTE CUTE CUTE critters, February 26, 2004

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Christine Saalbach (San Antonio TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glass Bead Artistry: Over 200 Playful Designs (Ondori S) (Paperback)

Not content to make only jewelry from beads? Want to start your own bead zoo? Or sprinkle your garden with bead insects? Or plant your garden with bead vegetables and flowers? This book is chockablock full of cute little critters, zodiac signs, itty-bitty purses for your dollies, and space ships for a beaded trip to the stars.

Although the diagrams call for Toho seed beads, a Girl Scout troop project might try using big pony beads instead for a larger and less-painstaking result.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Japanese Beadwork for Beginners, March 23, 2008

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Genevieve Hayes (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glass Bead Artistry: Over 200 Playful Designs (Ondori S) (Paperback)

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 as to how to make a variety of such sculptures, including story book characters (Little Red Riding Hood, Thumbelina, Peter Pan, Puss in Boots, etc), cars and planes, insects, kitchen items, sea creatures, dress-up dolls, doll house furniture, zoo animals, and assorted pieces of jewellery. The instructions are very simple to follow (in each case, a color illustration showing the layout of the beads is given) and color photographs of the different items are provided throughout.

"Glass Bead Artistry" is the first of three books on Japanese beadwork published by Ondori (the other two being Basic Beadwork for Beginners and The World of Beads) and is my favourite of the three. The projects in this book are the cutest of those in the three books and there is a nice mixture of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional projects. All three of these books, however, are excellent, and if this book appeals to you, I recommend that you buy all three.

Note that the items in these book are simple enough for children to make, but are so cute that adults would want to make them (I'm 27 and I'm a big fan of these books) too.