This is Sonoko's first book in English and offers 25 projects showcasing the artists signature melding of traditional Japanese style with modern dramatic flair: Overflowing with crystal and pearls these pieces are lush, romantic and one of a kind!

128 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.

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Jewelry Designs from Nature
Heather reveals her creative process and guides readers through 30 lovely bracelet, necklace and earring projects that feature her beads and the beads of other well-known artists. Simple techniques such as stringing, wirework, and bead stitching are explained with clear step-by-step directions. Readers will use this view into artist Heather Power’s creative process to build a solid foundation in the basics of jewelry design. Drawing on the natural world, Heather shows readers how to balance color, texture, and scale to create 30 projects. Pieces are designed with simple techniques, chain, wire, findings, crystals, seed beads, and art beads in standard sizes.
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Jewellery Making - A Complete Course for Beginners
Jinks McGrath

This is a complete course in designing and making jewellery. Carefully structured tutorials guide you through every stage stage of the process, revealing how to translate inspired ideas into workable, wearable designs.

144 pages, full colour throughout. Hard back.
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Knitting with Wire
Nancie M Wiseman

30 knitting projects including necklaces, bracelets, baskets, boxes and more. Techniques used are hand, machine and Viking. 89 pages.
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Knitted Wire Jewelry
Samantha A Lopez

Distinguished by their fine gauge and delicate beauty, the 25 projects in this book take jewellery-making to fresh and unexpected places. Using knitting to transform cold hard wire into a moldable, organic fabric, Samantha Lopez creates sophisticated one-of-a-kind pieces that defy definition.

Step-by-step demonstrations of all the basic techniques needed to complete the projects,: knitting stitches, simple increases and decreases, stringing beads and more. There are 25 projects including rings, bracelets, earrings, necklaces and ways of incorporating other materials including sheet metal, gemstones, silk, velvet and more.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Lacy Wire Jewelry
Melody MacDuffee

With just a spool of wire and a few tools, Melody conjures elegant filigree, bezels, sculpture, curlicue lace and more as she curls this simple material into intricate airy and graceful wire-worked lace. In Lacy Wire Jewelry, you’ll learn how to make lacy filigree edging, inset bezels to capture cabochons, wraparound bezels to hold dimensional focals, beaded bezels for breathtaking adornments, twisted-wire and crystal-adorned branches, sculpted wire centrepieces and curlicue lace decoration.

96 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Let's Celebrate! Miniature Beaded Cakes for all Occasions
By Katie Dean

Birthday Cakes, Wedding Cakes, Christmas Cakes...

Katie has designed nine miniature beaded cakes to celebrate a range of occasions, all made using cylinder and seed beads and Peyote stitch. The designs include step-by-step written instructions and photographic illustrations, along with more ideas so you can design your own little beaded celebrations.

The book has 118 pages, full colour throughout and measures approximately 17cm x 17cm
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Links
Jean Yates

With simple step-by-step instructions and a creation cad-do attitude, beautiful inspired jewellery is easy to make. Links will show you how your family and friends, nature, striking colours and, of course, the ingredients of your bead box can influence deeply meaningful creations. Once you know where to liik, inspiration can be found in every corner of your life and transaled into beautiful bracelets, necklaces, earrings and pins.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback A5 size.

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Link It
Susan C Thomas

Discover a fresh original variation on chain mail jewellery. By combining metal jump rings and colourful rubber

0-rings, Susan Thomas introduces a new form of chain mail jewellery. The 0-rings give the 22 project in Link It an edgy, fun - and sometimes sophisticated - look and also bring a unique stretchy quality to the pieces.

104 pages, full colur throughout. softback
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Little Bead Boxes
Julia S Pretl

Step-by-step illustrations and easy to follow instructions show you how to create little bead boxes that are three, five and six sided, plus lots more.
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Loom Weaving
Heather Kingsley-Heath

A beginner's guide to loom weaving from the Useful Booklet Company. Simple to understand insturctions. 26 pages full colour throughout.
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Making Elegant Jewelry for Special Occasions
From the publishers of BeadStyle Magazine

Making Elegant Jewelry for Special Occasions contains a stunning assortment of projects: light and delicate jewellery, simple and clean designs, bold yet classy pieces. With chapters on crystals, pearls and wire, you know you’ll be able to find the ideal piece to complement you chosen outfit – a necklace or bracelet or earrings that are a perfect fit for your event. Each project features full colour photos and step-by-step instructions, plus detailed supply lists and a basic tools and techniques section.

79 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Made to Match
Carol Andrews & Helen Payne

Beaded cases for scissors and needles using patterns that represent all parts of the Breitish Isles. There are roses for England, shamrocks for Ireland daffodils for Wales and tartan plus the thistle for Scotland.

12 different designs to make a matching needlecase and scissors keeper.

34 pages, full colour and clear graphs throughout. Spiral bound soft back.

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Making Beautiful Bead & Wire Jewelry
Linda Jones

30 Step-by-step projects from materials old and new. Bead and wire jewellery is one of the fastest-growing crafts, with more and more people discovering the joys of making unique hand crafted pieces every year. This book has sophisticated, stylish and yet inexpensive to make designs that you will love to make and wear or give as the perfect present. Ideal for beginners as you learn step-by-step, how to create the 30 bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more. The projects include bangles, rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches and other accessories.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Making Designer Bead & Wire Jewellery
Tammy Powley

Perfect for both novice and more experienced jewellery makers. This book contains illustrated how-to techniques, full-colour project photos, detailed project instructions and numberous tips that enhance the styles and skills presented.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Making Designer Freshwater Pearl Jewellery
Nicole Noelle Sherman

The first jewellery-making book focusing exclusively on perals.

The book features step-by-step designs combining simple stringing and wire working techniques.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Making Jewelry with Gemstone Beads
Barbara Case

Create beautiful beaded gemstone jewellery from a dazzling range of 32 precious, semi-precious and ornamental stones. Over 100 versatile designs range for earrings and accessories to exquisite necklaces and bracelets.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Making Vintage Jewellery
Emma Brennan

This books shows you how to make twenty-five stunning pieces of jewellery covering a range of looks and influences from the 1920s to the 1950s. Step-by-step photographs with detailed instrucions on basic methods used.

155 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.
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Masters Beadweaving
Major Works by Leading Artists

A lovely 'coffee table' book with wonderful designs from 36 leading artists working today.

299 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Masters Glass Beads
Major Works by Leading Artists

A lovely 'coffee table' book with wonderful designs glass bead designs from leading artists.

335 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Mastering Beadwork
Carol Huber Cypher

A comprehensive guide to off-loom techniques. Are you a beader seeking solid beading foundations? Or are you an experienced beadworker wanting to refine your skills? This book is your ultimate resource for beading knowledge - it's a project book plus reference tool wrapped up in on.

240 pages, full colour throughout. Hard back.

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Micro-Macrame Jewelry
Joan R Babcock

This book brings Macrame bang up-to-date using beads to make 10 different items of jewellery including earrings, bracelets, necklaces and more.

77 pages with clear black & white diagrams. Softback.
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Micro-Macrame Beaded Jewellery - 30 Stunning Designs Using Crystals and Cords
Annikja deGroot

Micro macrame has re-emerged with a gorgeous new twist. Evocative of the Victorian era, this easy-to-use book updates the art of macrame with a range of stunning beaded jewellery designs. Learn how to capture the allure of the classic craft by using crystals and cords to create beautiful bracelets, earrings, brooches, necklaces and watch straps. All the pieces are easy to make and have a contemporary feel.

138 pages full colour throughout. Softback.

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Minerva Spirals
Minerva Beaders

Minerva Spirals is a beading book with a difference. The clear step-by-step instructions and enticing photographs have people new to beading in mind, while the new and creative approaches to spirals and the Inspirations Gallery will attract the more experienced beader. So what is different? This professionally produced book raises funds for more than 700 primary school children in two remote rural schools in Zimbabwe. It is designed and written by the Minerva Beaders of Bath who have had links to the schools for several years. They want to fund basic school necessities like text books, pencils, teaching aids and equipment and, one day, electricity and running water. Every book purchased will improve opportunities in life for these children.

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More Seed Bead Stitching
Beth Stone

Join Beth Stone as she continues to explore creative variations on traditional seed bead stitching techniques. Whether it's Ndebele herringbone, daisy, peyote, spiral stitches, fringes or newly invented combinations, Beth introduces creative twists and turns with every stitch.

Stitch variations including increases and decreases within peyote and Ndebele herringbone, peyote shapes such as circles, triangles, squares and loops. Spirals, double spirals and Cellini spirals. Seamless connections combined stitches, adding gemstone accents and more.

95 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Mother-of-Pearl Jewellery
Sylvie Hooghe

From clasic styles to more daring, contemporary designs, this book contains an array of bracelets, rings, earrings and necklaces all made with natural mother-of-pearl.

Clear step-by-step instructions throughout.

79 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Netting All The Way
Beading with Varvara

95 b & w and colour pages this book shows you how to create 30 different necklaces, bracelets and earrings.
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Netting Sets
Maddy Kuijper

A5 book with text in English, French, German & Dutch. Very clear diagrams with netting patterns for bracelets and necklaces.

47 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Necklaces Braided on the Kumihimo Disk
Karen DeSousa

Kumihimo is easy to learn. This book assumes you have never done it before!

Learn how to create stunning necklaces using this traditional Japanese braiding method mixed with beads.

33 pages, full colour throughout. Paper cover.

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New Dimensions in Bead & Wire Jewelry
Margot Potter

New Dimensions in Bead and Wire Jewelry brings shaping and beading wire together to create stunning sculptural designs. From necklaces and bracelets, to rings, earrings and tiaras, jewellery maven Margot Potter shows you how to coil, wrap, weave and sculpt 20 wire-based projects. In addition, inspirational variations on the projects provide even more reason to get wrapped up in wire.

128 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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More Necklaces Braided on the Kumihimo Disk
Karen DeSousa

Kumihimo is easy to lean. This book assumes you have never done it before and are willing to learn. Start with the basic round braid. This is the braid everyone learns on. The key to a perfect braid is to relax, turn on the TV, listen to music, watch the scenery go by, just relax. Kumihimo is supposed to be a relaxing and meditative craft, so enjoy!

33 pages, full colour throughout. Paper cover.

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Ornamental Knots and Beaded Jewellery
Suzen Millodot

Knotted necklaces look great when combined with beautiful ceramic, metal or wooden beads. Just one knot with several semi-precious beads is stunning. Once the techniques are mastered, designs can be as extravagent, or as simple as you want - no specialist equipment is required and no special skills. This book includes detailed step-by-step photographs, accompanying diagrams, helpful advice and inspirational projects.

Full colour throughout. Softback.

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Patterns in Polymer
Julie Picarello

Create stunning, colorfully patterned focal beads with polymer clay! Learn secrets for sophisticated color mixing, imprint tools, adding found objects to polymer, and designing and finishing layered beads.

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Perfect Match - Earring Designs for Every Occasion
Sara Schwittek

More than 40 stylish yet simple earring designs to perfectly complement every moment of your life. Earrings are arranged by occasion, from daily excursions like work and shopping to memorable events such as weddings and nights on the town.

160 pages, full colour throughout. Softback.

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Precious Jewellery
Cheryl Owen

25 jewellery projects using precious and semi-precious beads. Designs include chokers, rings, brooches, bracelets and more.

112 pages, full colour throughout. Hardback.

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Round the Beading Twist
Jacqui Carey

With clear full colour photographs throughout this book shows you how to create decorative cords with beads.

28 pages full colour.

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