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Celtic Knots for Beaded Jewellery
Suzen Millodot
Learn how to make beautiful necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches and earrings using real, three-dimensional Celtic knots combines with beads and pendants.
Eighteen projects using clear step-by-step photographs.
80 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Chain Mail Jewelry
SuzeTerry Taylor & Dylon Whyte
Make wonderful dazzling jewellery by interlinking jump rings.
These fluid tactile designs are sure to inspire!
144 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback
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Chain and Bead Jewelry - Geometric Connections
Scott David Plumlee
A new angle on creating dimensional earrings, bracelets and necklaces.
In Chain and Beaded Jewelry Geometric Connections, wirework jewellery designer Scott David Plumlee shares his techniques for creating an amazing array of original designs using copper, silver, brass and gold jump rings, all inspired by geometric shapes.
By adapting and building on the traditional Byzantine chain configuration, Scott creates unique collections of beaded earrings, bracelets and necklaces from the three sided Tripoli to the four sided Quaterfoil to the five sided Pentagon plus innovative organic designs including fish, five and six pointed snowflakes and a butterfly.
The through 'Chain and Bead Basics' chapter, which guides readers through all the essential tools and techniques, makes it easy for beginners to re-create these stunning pieces.
160 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Chain and Bead Jewelry - Soldering Connections
Scott David Plumlee
20 Spine-tingling jewellery designs to combine metal and gemstones in exciting ways.
Welcome to the next plateau of your beaded chain jewellery adventure, as we step beyond the basics of cold-connected chain patterns and overcome our fear of the flame, to explore twenty simple soldering projects. Learn to solder silver, bronze, copper and gold jump rings into stunning beaded chain jewellery designs with renowned book author and workshop instructor Scott David Plumlee.
80 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Classic Chain Mail Jewelry
Sue Ripsch
The art of Chain Mail has been updated for modern and stylish jewellery: With just a few pairs of pliers and a handful of jump rings, the possibilities are endless. Let author and teacher Sue Ripsch guide you through the ins and outs of this fascinating and awe-inspiring craft.
More than 30 projects for all skill levels with clear step-by-step photography and complete instructions for fantastic results.
96 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Chained
Rebeca Mojica
Whether you are new to chain mail or a seasoned weaver, Chained will introduce you to the art of combining metal jump rings into intricate designs, in a new way. No other book shows how to use so many weaves in so many ways, or gives this ancient art such a beautiful and modern twist. Techniques once used for armour now have a new life and can be used to create elegant adornments.
Clear, detailed step-by-step photos that will take you from opening and closing jump rings to finishing your first (or fiftieth!) projects.
Easy-to-navigate Weave in a Nutshell2 options for many weaves that will show advanced chain mail weavers the weave of a project in just a few steps.
22 beautiful projects plus dozens of variations, including earrings, bracelets, necklaces and pendants, each with its own skill level and time investment rating.
142 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Chains, Chains, Chains
Joanna Gollberg & Nathalie Mornu
While metal chains can be stunningly simple, they offer endless design options with trmedous variations in styles and forms. Featuring 25 non-traditional projects perfect for every day wear and complimentary to all outfits.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Chainstyle
Jane Dickerson
Chain Style showcases 50 projects using chain as the key design element, featuring top-notch jewellery artists. Chain Style includes basic wirework and stringing techniques, easy-to-find materials lists, projects for jewellery makers of all skill levels and detailed step-by-step instruction.
Chain is fast, fun and affordable. You will find lots of inspiring ideas for using chain creatively with a wide variety of design styles and levels of commitment. Learn to make a fabulous and unique piece of jewellery in minutes!
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Chic & Easy Beading Vol 1
Bead & Button Publication
100 different jewellery projects from Bead & Button & Bead Style magazines and the Chic & Easy special issues.
Projects for beaders of all skill levels from beginners to advanced with techniques including stringing, stitching and wirework.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Chic & Easy Beading Vol 2
Bead & Button Publication
70 different jewellery projects from Bead & Button & Bead Style magazines and the Chic & Easy special issues.
Projects for beaders of all skill levels from beginners to advanced with techniques including stringing, stitching and wirework.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Chic & Unique Beaded Jewelry
Edited by Naomi Abeykoon
A sparkling collection of 55 jewellery projects by a host of designers. Designs such as charm bracelets, elegant necklaces, eye-catching earrings and styling watches.
Easy-to-follow techinques including bead stitching, bead weaving and twisting wire.
121 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery
Suzen Millodot
Clear easy to follow descriptions to create 16 Chinese knotted pieces with or without beads.
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Chinese Knotting
Lydia Chen
The book traces the origins, history and symbolism of Chinese knots. There are step-by-step instructions for the 11 basic knots which provide the builoding blocks for the 14 compound knots and various variations. 41 knotting projects of varying difficulty will give the reader plenty of choice for experimentation.
116 pages clear diagrams and colour pictures. Hardback.
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Classical Elegance
by Maggie Meister's
Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance: 20 Beaded Jewelry Designs" by Maggie Meister. This entry in the bestselling Beadweaving Master Class series showcases the amazing work of renowned beader/teacher Maggie Meister. Maggie Meister has two great loves: beads and antiquity. Inspired by her travels in Europe--especially Italy--she combines both those passions in one glorious collection. Drawing on patterns and motifs as diverse as classical Roman arts, Middle Eastern textiles, and European architecture, she created 20 exquisite projects for intermediate beaders. Her magnificent pieces include a Matriarch's Cuff, which builds on a 17th century Jewish wedding ring; a Sappho Necklace that incorporates designs from ancient mosaics; and a Santa Sofia Pendant that borrows shapes from the onion-dome church steeples found throughout Europe.
Hardcover, 128 pages, full colour throughout. Click on image for larger picture
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Coiled Wire Beads & Jewelry
Can-do-Crafts
This booklet shows you how to use the Coiling Gizmo and include beads and wire to make necklaces, bracelets and more.
19 pages full colour.
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Color Works
Deb Menz
A useful guide to colour whatever your craft. This book is easy to understand and comes with interactive sections featuring a colour wheel, value scales and hue cards.
Price: £16.99
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Contemporary Loom Beading
Sharon Bateman
Using a loom makes it easy to weave beautifully graphic beaded patterns as wide or as narrow as needed. Now mixed-media artist Sharon Bateman give this traditional craft a modern touch, opening up new creative horizons for beaders. Learn how to set up a loom, follow graphed patterns, and even build a simple loom from foam core board or wood. The thrity-four stunning projects each include additional patterns to choose frm that will enable you to express your own stylish flair.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
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Create Jewelry Crystals
Marlene Blessing & Jamie Hogsett
Jewellery makers of all skill levels will revel in this in-depth look at crystals complete with clear step-by-step project instructions and rich inpiration. Designs include necklaces, bracelets, earring and more.
127 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Create Jewelry Glass
Marlene Blessing & Jamie Hogsett
Jewellery makers and beaders love working with glass beads for their versatility, affordability, and ability to be used in a combination of techniques. From tiny seed beads to eye-catching focal beads, glass takes many forms - clear, transparent, opaque, vibrantly coloured, shiny or matte. You will find over 20 beautiful and innovative designs using various techniques including stringing and wireworking.
120 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Create Jewelry Pearls
Marlene Blessing & Jamie Hogsett
20 designs for stringing and beadweaving using freswater and imitation pearls. Clear step-by-step instructions for creating some beautiful pieces.
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Create Jewelry Stones
Marlene Blessing & Jamie Hogsett
Dramatize your jewellery designs with the addition of semiprecious stones. Add a few to accentuate a piece or many to completely change the look and feel of a design.
120 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Creating Crystal Jewelery with Swarovski
Laura McCabe
65 sparkling designs using Swarovski crystal
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Creating Glamorous Jewelry with Swarovski Crystals: Classic Hollywood Designs with Crystal Beads and Stones
Creating Glamorous Jewelry with Swarovski Elements presents a collection of modern reproductions of classic Hollywood glitz, worn by the dazzling starlets of the big screen, including Marlene Dietrich, Katherine Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe. All 20 sparkling jewellery pieces are made with the internationally popular Swarovski products, including the newest items in their line of crystal beads and stones. Detailed instructions and illustrations take you step-by-step through the creation of each piece. Whether dressed up or dressed down, these statement pieces will be fun to wear and become stunning, heirloom-quality additions to your jewellery collection.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Paperback.
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Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry
Karen J Leonardo
From tiny glass beads and pendants to rings and necklaces, Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry teaches you how to create them all.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Soft back.
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Creative Beadweaving
Author - Carol Willcox Wells
This is the Mrs Beatons' cookbook for beadwork. Lots of clear diagrams and instructions for increasing, decreasing and mixing stitches along with projects. This book should be on every beaders bookshelf.
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Creative Beading Vol 5
From the publishers of Bead&Button Magazine
Creative Beading Vo 5 brings you more of what has always made the Creative Beading series great; a year’s worth of the best projects from the Bead&Button magazine, collected in one sturdy volume. Each projects is editor-tested, with full-colour photos and illustrations and clear, exact instructions. Thorough basic techniques, tools, and materials sections are also included, as well as a handy index to help you quickly find each project you want to make.
256 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
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Creative Crochet Jewelry
Esther Zadock
Creative Crochet Jewelry makes it easy to create stunning jewellery with simple crochet techniques. With the help of detailed step-by-step instructions, you’ll turn basic wire, thread and beads into pieces that just look expensive. From quick projects perfect for beginners to more challenging designs for experienced crocheters, the 30+ baubles here will surely turn heads…and turn you into a crochet jewellery connoisseur!
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Creative Chain Mail Jewelry
Explore the many possibilities foe jewelry pieces made form jump rings. Projects include bracelets, necklaces, earrings and rings in a variety of chain mail weaves
96 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Crystal Jewellery Creations
Dorothy Wood
Elegant, sparkling, vibrant and truly exquisite – create your own stunning crystal jewellery with this stylish project collection. There are over 30 step-by-step projects made with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS, including Swarovski Beads, Pendants, Flat Backs and Crystal Pearls, in seemingly endless different shapes, sizes, colours and effects.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Soft back.
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Crochet with Wire - Nancie M Wiseman
Thirty different projects inclding stunning, yet easy-ti-make necklaces, earrings, and more. There are instructions for beginners as well as challenging projects for the experienced!
88 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Crocheted Wire Jewelry
Arline M Fisch
A different and exciting approach to making jewellery from using delicate chain stitches to solid tubes of single loops.
Designs include necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets and other projects in this innovative book.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Crochet Jewellery
Sophie Britten
Thirty-five projects using a wide variety of materials from wools and sparkly yarns to wire and beads. Learn how to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, borrches, hair slides, rings and more.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Crystals with Right Angle Weave
Tanya Tegmeyer-Rodriguez
Crystals make it easy to fashion stunning Right Angle Weave jewellery. With innovative projects suitable for beginners and experienced beaders, you will discover how to make components and combine then in interesting ways.
35 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Cube Bead Stitching
Virginia Jensen
Is it the play of light off the smooth surfaces? Or the neat geometry as the cubes click into place? Author and designer Virginia Jensen usual all the attributes of cool cube beads to create jewellery that's contemporary and elegant. Pair cubes with favourite stitches such as peyote, herringbone and right-angle weave or explore Virginia's many variations on St. Petersburg chain.
More than 20 appealing jewellery and decorative projects along with inspiring design alternatives. Step-by-step photos and clear instructions with get your stitching with success!
96 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Dare to Bead
Heather Laithwaite
Create stunning jewellery and other items from the vast range of beads available. Projects include a tassel fob, table mat, bracelet, bookmark, lariats and more.
127 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Dazzling Beaded Jewelry
DIY Network
50 projects which have been featured on the US DIY Network. The book is divided into different techniques including wire wrapping, bead weaving, knitting, crochet & knotting and simply stringing.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Delica Beaded Jewelry
Alice Korach
Lots of lovely designs featuring all sizez of Delica beads.
35 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Designs for Beaded Jewellery Using Glass Beads
Maria Di Spirito
Inspiring book shows forty-eight gorgeous designs for jewellery made with glass beads, ribbons, thong, cords and more.
64 pages, full colour throughout. Softback A5 size.
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Diane Fitzgerald's Favourite Beadwork Diane Fitzgerald
Diane Fitzgerald
Due March 2012
Diane Fitzgerald is back with two dozen of her very best, never-before-published beadwork projects! These favorites are drawn from Diane's 20-plus years of creating and teaching and highlight her signature style. Packed with colour and amazing designs, this must-have book.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
DUE IN MARCH 2012. AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER AND A £5 NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT WILL BE TAKEN WITH THE BALANCE DUE ON DESPATCH OF THE BOOK
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Diane Fitzgerald's Shaped Beadwork
Diane Fitzgerald
This book’s a knockout! Master beader Diane Fitzgerald teaches her award-winning techniques for creating gorgeous geometric jewelry. More than 20 truly stunning projects, all using peyote stitch, come in a variety of flat and dimensional shapes, from triangles, teardrops, and pentagons to tetrahedrons, cubes, and diamonds. Sleek, contemporary, and breathtaking, these beadwoven pieces are perfect for the intermediate crafter—but with such clear and detailed instructions, even beginners will give them a try!
120 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback
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Dimensional Bead Embroidery
Jamie Cloud Eakin
Jamie Cloud Eakin lives in Modesto, California. She has been a professional bead artist for two decades. She has taught at the Bead & Button Show and sells her work in galleries across North America. She is the author of Beading with Cabochons (Lark 2005) and Bugle Bead Bonanza (Lark 2010).
Her new book for Lark is more of a techniques and shows you how to combine seed beads, cabochons and more with embroidery.
This book has had some brilliant reviews and we can't wait to get our hands on it too!
£17.99 Hardback full colour throughout.
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Earrings, Earrings, Earrings
Edited by Barb Switzer
Earrings are a top-selling jewellery accessory every season. Great for gifts or to add a punch of style to any outfit, earrings are fast and easy to make. Silk, wood, glass, stone, metal and crystal come together in earrings to fit every modd and outfit.
For beginners a step-by-step photo guide is provided to familiarize techniques and materials. Imeterdiate beaders will find innovative, challenging designs to build on the skilly they already possess.
Seventy original designs plus a few necklaces and bracelets.
176 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Earrings
Tansy Wilson
Tansy Wilson, professional jewellery designer and maker, outlines in this book everything you will need to help you create your own unique pieces with the minimum of effort. You will learn about all the tools and basic techniques required to make your own unique, fun and fabulous earrings. Packed with 20 easy-to-follow projects, step-by-step photographs will guide you through the chapters starting with the simplicity of wire work and beads through to utilising recycled pieces and funky charms. And it will show you where to find inspiration and continue your making. Using a whole variety of materials each project can be adapted to suit your individual style by choosing your own beads and colours to ensure your designs are truly unique.
120 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Easy Beading
Better Homes and Gardens
This book will show you how to make easy beaded necklaces, rings & bracelets and show you how to add decorations to lampshades, pillows and more.
112 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Elegant Knotted Jewelry
Becky Mverden
Explore maedeup, the ancient art of Krean knotting.
Now you can discover the beautiful, traditional craft of maedeup, as you create gorgeous jewellery projects using colourful cording and beads. Author Becky Meverden first shows you how to create the knots themselves, then how to use them in projects. Find instruction on pieces ranging from a simple pair of knotted earrings, to an intricate dragonfly necklace and a modern wire plus cord watch.
128 pages, full colour throughout.
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Elements of Style
Rosemary Hill
Stretch your imagination with Elements of Style, a fresh new take on jewellery making! Artist Rosemary Hill combines beading, crocheting, knitting, felting and wireworking in unique ways for jewellery that is instantly wearable art.
Twenty-six modern designs using basic knit, crochet, and felting techniques in unusual and alluring combinations will appeal to jewellery makers of all levels.
127 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Embellished Beadweaving
Laura McCabe creates elaborate beaded embellishments which she combines into stunning jewellery. These graceful forms are also ideal for embellishing garments or fiber artworks. Her definitive guide to weaving and embroidering with beads is the third volume in the bestselling Beadweaving Master Class series. Combining traditional techniques with modern materials, and showcasing a wide variety of bead types, it offers 18 opulent pieces of jewelry incorporating motifs drawn from the natural world, such as flora and fauna, art nouveau designs, and geometric forms. With its truly spectacular illustrations, this is a feast of inspiration for crafters in all fiber media.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback £16.99
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Endless Sparkle
Aimee Carpenter
If you're hungry for new ways to stitch with crystals, this is the book for you! Author Aimee Carpenter plays with colour and shows you how to make countless sparkly creations. Begin by making crystal components in the first section, and then learn how to complete a pair of earrings or a beautiful new necklace later on. Be warned: these crystal goodies are a bit like candy. Once you start stitching, you won't want to stop!
96 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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French Beaded Flowers - The Complete Guide
Zoe L Schnieider
French Beaded Flowers The Complete Guide includes everything you need to start making your own lovely floral creations using only beads, wire and a few simple tools. Inside this book you will find helpful information on selecting the right beads, wire and tools, step-by-step instructions and photos for a wide variety of techniques that can be used to create petals, leaves, stems and more.
256 pages, full colour throughout. A5 size, hardback.
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Ultimate Necklace Maker
Dorothy Wood
Ten timeless necklace designs are beautifully crafted by beading expert Dorothy Wood in this stylish guide to jewellery making
Be spoilt for choice with over thirty five handmade necklaces, from the single-strand and pendant to the lariat and sautoir. Fifteen styles of necklace explore a range of techniques , from stringing and knotting to bead stitching, wirework and chain maille.
Clear step-by-step instructions, handy tips and stunning photogrphy, both beginners and experienced beaders are sure to be inspired.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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The Earring Style Book
Stephanie A Wells
Stephanie Wells’s unique trendsetting Double Happiness earrings have been regularly spotted on Oprah, Alicia Keys, Rachael Ray and Beyonce. Here, the award-winning designer shows you how to make 40 of her signature earring styles without sacrificing on time or budget.
You’ll learn basic jewellery making skills, as well as Double Happiness techniques for making frames, wrapping wires and beads and connecting multiple wraps. Whether your style is chic, glamorous, rock-and-roll, or bohemian, you’ll find easy-to-make earrings that will update and transform any outfit.
160 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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English Beaded Needlecases
Carol Andrews & Helen Payne
Charts and instructions for twelve beaded needlecases.
32 pages and full colour throughout.
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Fabulous Felt
Sophie Bester
Over 30 accessories for every season in rich textures of fabulous felt. Create blankets, lamps, hair clips and more.
119 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Fabulous Woven Jewelry
Mary Hettmansperger
Plaiting, coiling, knotting, looping & twining with fiber and metal. 24 woven projects expand the creative boundaries of jewellery making.
160 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Felted Jewelry
Candie Cooper
Combine felting and jewelry making techniques to create stunning necklaces, earrings, bracelets and toher pieces. 20 projects ranging in style from contemporary and playful to chic and sophisticated.
112 pages, full colour throughout. Softback
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Fun with Chinese Knotting
Lydia Chen
This book will show you how to use Chinese Knots to create earrings, necklaces, pendants, brooches, belts, bracelets and more. There are nine basic knots, ninetten compound notes and five tassel designs.
160 pages, clear lined diagrams and colour photos. Hardback.
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Ganutell
Maria Kerr
Ganutell is the Maltese art of making artistic flowers with wires, thread and beads. This unique book has full colour step-by-step instructions for creating these delicate works of art that could be frames, used on cards, incorporated into jewellery designs and much more.
Exciting and different!
91 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
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Gemstones
Arthur Thomas
Gemstones is a comprehensive and suthoriative guide to the world of precious gems and ornamental stones. It is clear and concise, features over 200 mineral gems, organics and synthetics, includes background information on crystal structures and rock types. With stunning photographs and precise diagrams that allow easy identification.
256 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
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Getting Started Making Metal Jewelry
Mark Lareau
Read to take your jewellery-making skills to a whole new level? This book is designed especially for beginners who want to open the door to a world of creative jewellery making.
Each project introduces a anew skill, such as cutting, drilling, soldering, hammering and polishing, and each chapter builds on what's been explored previously. Begin with a simple pendant, French wire earrings, an attractive bracelet with a letter punch design, simple elegant rings, then learn to add stone settings to your pieces, and much, much more.
112 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback
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Getting Started - Making Wire Jewelry & More
Linda Chandler & Christine Ritchey
If you don't know the first thing about making wire jewellry then this book will help you well on the way to being an expert. You will learn how to make basic comonents such as loops, jump rings & connectors then use them to create earrings, rings, bracelets and more,
Clear steop by step colour photography throughout.
87 pages, full colour. Hardback
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Getting Started with Seed Beads
Dustin Wedekind
Beadwork magazine's Dustin Wedekind skillfully guides you through working with seed beads - from shopping and storing beads to stringing and sewing. In no time you'll complete your first project!
128 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
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Getting Started Stringing Beads
Jean Campbell
Ready to enjoy making and designing your own jewellery? Here's the most complete beginning bead-stringing primer on the market! Getting Started Stringing Beads contains everything you need to know to start making beaded jewellery right now. The must-have book has more than 100 illustrations using clear photography and crisp drawings to pump up your shopping and stringing savvy. Sections on how to shop for beads, bead types, stringing materials, crimping, tying knots, working with findings, ideas for working with a focal bead, how to finish your projects and designing your own jewellery.
88 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.
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Get Started with Wire Jewelry
Bead & Button Publication
With a few basic tools and simple techniques you can learn how to make jump rings, wire chain links and wraps to incorporate into earrings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, rings, and more.
56 pages full colour throughout. Softback.
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Glamorous Weaving
Hortense E Thompson
19 different designs for delicate bracelets and rings using Right Angle Weave. Clear diagrams and instructions throughout.
48 pages A5 size, full colour throughout. Softback
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Hamanaka Kumihimo Disk
Made from supple, compressed polystyrene, this simple disk is an excellent aid for braid making that can be used anywhere
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Kumihimo Braiding Plate
Create beautiful braiding projects quickly
The Kumihimo Plate measures 6 x 6 and is also made of 3/8 dense foam. The plate produces a flattened and thicker braid.
Includes illustrated instructions and 3 project ideas
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Kumihimo Wire Jewelry
Giovanna Imperia
Create beautiful wire jewellery with a traditional Japanese braiding technique. In addition to a concise history of kumihimo and an overview of its essential materials, tools, and techniques, readers will learn the basics of this braiding method, plus how to create 20 stringing projects - stylish bracelets, rings, earrings and necklaces - all supported with detailed, step by step instructions and illustrations. This comprehensive book, which also includes pieces by prominent kumihimo jewellery artists from around the world, will inspire jewellery makers, bearers and wireworkers at all skill levels to take their craft in a vibrant new direction.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Handcrafting Chain and Bead Jewelry
Scott David Plumlee
Create stunning chain and bead jewellery in silver, copper and brass using simple tools.
Clear step-by-step instructions and photograpsh show how to create these stunning chains
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How to Design Bead & Wire Jewellery
Renata Graham
Every beader knows the seductive pleasures of the bead shop. And once you've got your purchases home: what then?
How do you put it all together to create a beautiful piece? What Shapes fit? Will crystal work well with wood? Malachite with metallic? Can you use lustre against lustre, or will lustre agains matt work better? How many spacers between statement beads? Should you design by symmetrical? And what about the rhythm of the piece? Will it site still or shift and sway? Do you want glam of boho?
Drama or harmony? Big clasp or small claps?
This book answers all of these questions, and many others that bead jewellery designers are likely to encounter. It is the must-have guide to the key design principles for beautiful beaded jewellery. And what's more, the book lets you test all this out with 20 wonderful projects.
144 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
Price: £14.99
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Innovative Adornments
Jayne Persico
Innovative Adornments, An Introduction to Fused Glass & Wire Jewelry will be valued by jewellery artists, art glass fusers, flass bead makers, fashion designers and more. Over 250 colour photographs and step-by-step instructions to show you how to make distinctive fused glass jewellery using silver or gold wire wrapping techniques.
80 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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It's All About The Beads
Barbara Case
Over 100 projects including simply strung bracelets, bold pendants, elaborate necklaces, striking earrings, and other eye catching accessories.
Easy to follow instructions.
128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
Price: £12.99
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