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Beading Basics
by Carol Rodgers
“This is a book for all bead enthusiasts and crafters alike - to give everyone the opportunity to widen their horizons”
“If you’ve been tempted by the beauty of beaded jewelry and home decorating pieces, but second-guessed your abilities to learn the skills needed to create such tantalizing works, fear no more! Beading Basics reveals all that’s necessary for creating everything from a simple single-strand necklace to a more intricate netting stitch woven wine bottle cover.”
To inspire you to look for imaginative ways to use beads try the chapters focusing on combining craft materials, such as polymer clay and multi-surface paints with beads. This is a book for all bead enthusiasts and crafters alike – to give everyone the opportunity to widen their horizons and to find new and rewarding ways to work with beads.”
• Essential information for choosing the right beads, supplies and tools, plus tips and techniques for working with wire, weaving on a loom and creating various woven chains.
• Easy-to-follow instructions with more than 175 how-to illustrations and 230 beautiful photographs showing every detail needed to create 40 gorgeous projects.
• An inspirational gallery of designs featuring the works of 11of today’s top beading artists. -Excerpted from cover
“Beading Basics is the one resource you need to get you on the path to becoming a talented bead artist.”
Reviewer’s Fav:
- Chapters: Color Theory (Pages 43-44)
- Projects: Embellished Potawatomi Bracelet (Pages 112-114)
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- Beading Basics
- by Carole Rodgers
- Paper Bound – 8.5” x 11”
- 128 pages, full color
- 40 projects
- Published by: KP Books, an imprint of F+W Publications, Inc.
 ISBN: 0-89689-170-4- $19.99
- 2006
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