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Once an ancient art, now a billion-dollar industry.

Since time immemorial, people have used beads to adorn and beautify themselves and their surroundings. This guide shows readers how to do many of the different kinds of beadwork made all over the world. With step-by-step instructions for each technique, it has both simple and more advanced projects.

• For both novices and veterans, with clear, easy-to-understand instructions
• Hundreds of line drawings and photographs
• Special sections on making your own beads; the intricacies of fasteners and clasps; bead designs; working with wire; threading techniques; and beading on fabric, fibers, and looms



About the Author

Georgene Lockwood has been writing about crafts for more than 20 years for magazines. An avid beader for ten years, she recently began her own crafts business. Lockwood is the author of the bestselling The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Organizing Your Life and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Simple Living.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Alpha (November 2, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592572561
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592572564
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #618,637 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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bead spaghetti, beaded garden, beading cap, stringing medium, making your own beads, working cords, cord crimp, wirework techniques, mounting cord, lampwork beads, tubular peyote, stringing projects, crimp head, head embroidery, bead spinner, started beading, thread conditioner, weaving stitches, lobster claw clasp, peyote stitch, beaded flowers, crimp bead, bead weaving, brick stitch, single fringe
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Native American, Getting Wired, All Strung Out, Soft Flex, The Venerable, Thread Heaven, Barbara Grainger, Beads Everywhere, Getting Started Beading, Rosemary Topol, Rowena Tank, United States, Lana Ante, Wendy Blair, Wirework Projects, Bobbi Wicks, Dover Publications, Suzanne Cooper, Work Safe
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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for those learning to bead--Answers the question: Where do I begin with beading?, July 1, 2005
As the frenzy to learn the beading craft continues to heat up, many beginning beaders seek answers to the many questions they have on the dizzying variety of beads, stitches, techniques, and beading components. What is Nymo? What is fireline? Flexible wire, what's that? And these "findings" -- how do you use them?

Many beading books offer help, but most are written to teach one stitch, offer inspiration with beautiful pictures of professional work, or to address color theory and design. Georgene Lockwood fills a gap for the beader who needs an overview to know where to begin. Although the book focuses in this area, the compilation of resources and reference material make this book a valuable one for the advanced beader as well.

Overall, the book is extremely well-written, and the "Put
on your beading cap" idea is sheer genius. I have seen only one other beading book that has learners create a project with their samples, but Georgene Lockwood's is the only one that ties that idea with a piece of clothing the beader can wear, as well as linking the same idea with sidebars throughout the book. This makes for an integrated concept I really appreciate. Any beginning beader who follows along with the project while reading Lockwood's book will not only learn many valuable techniques, but complete the book owning a valuable piece of wearable art.

This book is one I highly recommend to beginning beaders. I wish I had this book when I was starting out. As a bead designer using advanced techniques, I know the appendices are ones to which I will turn to many times in the future.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent encyclopedia for beginners, but not as much for the very advanced, September 25, 2005
By Kimberly Chapman "kimberlychapman.com" (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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Disclaimer: I did not purchase this book, I was sent a review copy.

This is a very thorough book, touching on almost every concept I can think of within beading. However, as with anything thorough, that means each topic has less individual coverage than a specialized book. That's great if you are looking for a beginner's book to beading with a cheery tone mixed well with an encyclopedic style. That's not as good if you're looking for in-depth how-tos for a specific project.

Thus, I'd recommend this book as a beginner's first book. It'd make a great gift if you're trying to get someone new into beading, because it is comprehensive and definitely gets inspirational juices flowing by laying out the vast number of things one can do with beads. But if you're a very experienced beader across various beading methodologies, the best you'll get out of this book are fun facts and historical tidbits with perhaps the occasional tip you hadn't considered before.

The how-to diagrams are fairly thorough, but also standard one-piece, flat, follow-the-path models that can be confusing to real newbies. Based on the weekly email I get regarding the free step-by-step tutorials on my website, I'd wager that if you're confused by solitary diagrams in other books, this book won't help beyond that. However, if you are able to easily follow the thread/wire in such diagrams, this book does offer many of them for various stitches and techniques.

The photos tend to be small and none of them are in colour (except a few-page middle insert with some mediocre-quality colour photos of projects and eye candy). They are adequate enough for some instructions and there are a few good macro-sized shots in the technique instructions that illustrate things up close, but in terms of the projects they really only give an idea of the overall shape of a piece. They are completely useless from the point of view of trouble-shooting where you've gone wrong in a piece. You must be able to follow text instructions to do any of the few listed projects, so if you have trouble following bead counts, the projects could be frustrating.

Buy this book as a thorough reference to all things bead-related, but not as a pattern/project book.

Techniques/topics covered include: bead basics and history, making your own beads, tools and other items needed for beading, design tips, thread/string types, crimping/clasps/jump rings, peyote stitch, netting, right-angle weave, square stitch, brick stitch, looming, wire types and tools, beaded flowers, beading on fabric, backstitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, blanket stitch, feather stitch, couching, lazy stitch, scatter stitch, cabochons, edging, fringes, knotting, bead organization, preserving beaded items, decorating with beads, four stringing projects, three weaving projects, four wirework projects, three fibre/fabric projects, plus a glossary.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS BOOK!, June 25, 2005
If you are new to beading or even an old hand at it, this book has something for you! It's full of tips and techniques for all those things you wished you lnew how to do, but couldn't figure out on your own. Plus, it's inspirational!! It makes you want to get out the needle and thread and start beading. If you don't buy this book---you're a "complete idiot." It's absolutely the best!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginners!
I bought this book to sort of help me learn my way around the beading world, and it was an excellent guide. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Heather L. Neilsen

5.0 out of 5 stars Great overall book for the beginner
Although this book doesn't give you the complete story on each beading technique, it gives enough information to know what you'll need to buy and how to proceed.
Published 8 months ago by S. Fleischer

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, not great
This book isn't too bad, especially for beginners, and does address some basic loom work, stringing, and the most common off-loom stitches. Read more
Published 14 months ago by greycatblackdog

5.0 out of 5 stars It was more then time!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading by Georgene Lockwood seems like it was a long time coming! Read more
Published 16 months ago by Shala Kerrigan

4.0 out of 5 stars Complete idiot's guid to beading
I thought this book was very good at informing customers who have never had any experience in Jewerly making. Read more
Published on July 14, 2007 by Sandra E. Evanoff

5.0 out of 5 stars THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO BEADING, ILLUSTRATED
FLAWLESS TRANSACTION WITH A PLATINUM SELLER WHOM I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND; THANKS SO MUCH!
Published on May 7, 2007 by William W. Leoniy

2.0 out of 5 stars This book was very disappointing.
As a beginning to intermediate beader, this book was a disappointment to me. I guess I should have taken the title more seriously! Read more
Published on January 24, 2006 by C. Kizner

1.0 out of 5 stars No pictures for critical steps
I purchased this book to learn HOW TO ATTACH CLASPS. Well, there are NO PICTURES to go along with the step by step instructions. Read more
Published on January 2, 2006 by kre8iv1

4.0 out of 5 stars Great source of beadwork and info; but not very inspirational!
While the title of this book is rather offensive, it must be admitted that the text inside provides a thorough introduction to all types of beadwork. Read more
Published on September 28, 2005 by Sharilyn Miller

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