Jewelry Design and How-To

Learn a variety of stitches, then apply them in 25+ irresistible projects including earrings, beaded sculptures, necklaces, and baskets.

The art of crafting beautiful string and bead creations is explained in this step-by-step guide for novice beaders.

Handcrafting Chain and Bead Jewelry shows how to create beautiful, dimensional silver, copper, and brass chains using simple tools.

The traditional Japanese craft of Kumihimo is clearly explained in this hands-on resource that is suitable for beginners but also offers enough complexity for seasoned braiders.

With simple step-by-step instructions and a creative can-do attitude, beautiful inspired jewelry is easy to make.

Beaders everywhere—from rank beginners to top-level artists—are discovering the extraordinary creative potential and pleasure of a seemingly simple craft: making unique, one-of-a-kind beads from existing beads themselves.

With simple knotting, braiding, and cord-weaving techniques; several yards of hemp cord; and some interesting beads, you can create necklaces, bracelets, earrings, eyeglass chains, and other accessories.

Employing seed and bugle beads in two different basic techniques–needleweaving and card stitching–Beadweaving presents 50 beautiful projects, each with full step-by-step instructions and patterns.

Now macramé is for making attention-grabbing jewelry, hot accessories, and other projects.

This must-have guide covers essential skills including chain maille, cutting wire, making P loops, bending wire, making eye loops, jump rings, and using a wrapped bead link technique.

More French-Beaded Flowers has 38 exciting new patterns that will help you create such natural wonders as peonies, orchids, and sunflowers, as well as bees, dragonflies, and hummingbirds.

Shows crafters how beads of all kinds can be quickly and easily turned into exquisite necklaces, bracelets, pendants, and one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry.

For these very original jewelry designs, Banes draws on her lifelong interest in found objects and ethnic ornaments.

Easy to understand instructions and complementary illustrations assure bead stringing success with the very first project.

What beautiful, showpiece necklaces you can make following the instructions in this book – wearable art in the most exciting sense.

Henrietta’s step by step instructions on the art of bead stringing are accompanied by easy-to-understand drawings.

In Chinese Knotting, author Lydia Chen first traces the origins, history, and symbolism of this fascinating craft, before taking the reader through the fundamental elements necessary for tying Chinese decorative knots-the materials, implements, and main processes.

Simple knotted necklaces enhance their elegance and style when combined with beautiful ceramic, metal, or wooden beads, and the techniques for doing so are explained clearly with this guide’s step-by-step photographs, accompanying diagrams, helpful advice, and inspirational projects.

Focusing specifically on loom bead weaving, this book provides extensive information on building a loom, loomwork techniques, and design techniques.

Weave, Wrap, Coil showcases a variety of techniques, including weaving, coiling, wrapping, texturing, and forging, and offers new ideas for creating truly amazing combinations with both silver and copper wire.

Demonstrating how color can be used to create unique and vibrant beadwork designs, this guide will interest beaders at all skill levels.

The book revisits the round braid (for beginners) and then pumps it up by adding seed beads and finishes without findings.

Revamped, expanded, and still meticulously thorough, this reference is an essential tool for both experienced and new beadworkers.

Dozens of full-color photos taken especially for this book illustrate clothing, wall hangings, jewelry, game boards, vessels, and more.

Focusing solely on brick stitch, this unique guide presents 10 exciting beading projects-from tassels to necklaces-along with detailed, illustrated instructions.

This volume shows crafters how to make glass beads, using a small, portable torch, some purchased glass rods, and a few household tools.

The Beaded Sphere is a 232-page full-color hard cover featuring detailed instructions, diagrams and photos for a baker’s dozen of her bead projects ranging from jewelry to sculptures, including the unique Triple Sphere.

This is a guide to the making of one of the most basic jewellery items – the chain, providing step-by-step instructions on how to make them based on ancient loop-in-loop techniques.

In this book, the world’s foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color.

Take your front-row seat at a Tory Hughes workshop! Tory, award-winning artist and teacher, shares her innovative techniques with polymer clay and mixed media.

Explore the versatility and beauty of polymer clay! In this new book, author Victoria Hughes shows readers an amazing array of finishes for this magical medium.

Well presented techniques of how to make beaded beads.

The New Beadwork, states the foreword, is about “transformation and change, about painting, sculpting, weaving, layering, and building with beads.”