Beadwork Creates Jewelry

by Jean Campbell

Book Overview

A handpicked collection of designs from the popular Beadwork Creates series, this guide provides instructions to create a variety of jewelry, including earrings, rings, bracelets, and necklaces. These... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596680377
• ISBN13: 9781596680371
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Interweave Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Beadwork Creates Jewelry: 40 Beaded Designs

Very easy to read; I am glad I bought it ! Great price as well!.

Jean Campbell

Jean Campbell is an expert at giving clear instructions on how to bead. I highly recommend this book and this author.

This book will tempt you to get beading ASAP

I have done a few beaded projects: I tried bead knitting a small bag and I made a really stunning tomato pincushion with beaded crochet. This book covers those techniques in the glossary/instructions in the back, but the main focus is on various beading techniques to make really beautiful jewelry. Most of the jewelry are bands of woven beading, using needles and various seed beads such as Japanese seed beads, Miyukis, Delicas and bicone crystals, for example. But there are also semi-precious stone beadwork mixed with beads and silver tubes (Heishi) and so forth. The book is divided into bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and rings. The stitches involved are peyote, brick, right angle weaving, bead embroidery, crochet, stringing and wire work. Quite an assortment of techniques. The beaded rings were quite interesting; most of the time, we expect to see anything but a ring in beading. However, the "scrunchie" ring done with elastic and heishi metal beads and Swarovski crystals looks like a project that a crafter might find just the thing to get into beading. The necklaces include a stunning pearl net choker and a one-to-many strand necklace that looks like ones you see made by famous costume jewelry designers. Ther are 40 projects in this book, enough to keep the most avid beader busy for hours, and all of the projects looked like something you'd wear fashionably, i.e, not-home-made looking