The Bead Maker

by Mary Maguire

Book Overview

Featuring 30 recipes for crafting beautiful beads of all shapes, sizes and styles, this unique guide teaches crafters literally everything they need to know to create their own original handmade bead... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581803044
• ISBN13: 9781581803044
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

The Bead Maker

Very good information with a good number of illustrations showing the bead, both in the making and in the end product. Book was in good condition and it will be on my shelf of books to bead by. Barb

Inspiring Bead Making Ideas

I purchased this book mostly for the felt bead tutorial, but found the other beads interesting as well. I agree that many of the tutorials could be found online, but I like having this book at my side while I put my hands on the project. If you are looking for basic bead making techniques in various mediums, this is a good book.

Lots of great ideas

Just looking at the title, my first thought was that this book would be about glass lamp work beads, but after I pulled it off of the shelf, I was surprised to see that glass beads did not rate Mary's mention. Instead, Mary shows you how to use easily-found materials to make some fabulous beads. Mary recommends candy foil because it can be formed into shapes and is light and colorful. Other materials she explores are clay, polymer clay, felt, natural materials, aromatics, plastic, and embroidery. Seeds and shells are pierced to make beads. Paper can be used to make papier-mâché' beads or can be cut into strips and rolled around a toothpick and glued to make a bead. Mary's roses made from colored tissue paper and wallpaper paste are lovely -- I'll use this technique to decorate holiday gifts. Raid your spice rack to make aromatic beads from anise, cloves, cinnamon bark, cardamom pods, and whole nutmegs. For Valentine's Day, sending velvet hearts decorated with embroidery would be more fun than a greeting card. Mary's book will send your imagination soaring.