Designer Beadwork: French Beaded Design
by Donna DeAngelis Dickt
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The projects are all lovely and wonderfully diverse. There are plenty of beautiful flowers – roses, hydrangeas, anemones, tulips, daisies, and wildflowers – as well as a butterfly and dragonfly.
I’ve had a love affair with making French beaded flowers since my early teens. There have been a number of good books published on the subject recently, but this is one of the best, both in terms of the simplicity and clarity with which the basic techniques are taught and in terms of the beauty and desirability of the projects. Donna begins with an excellent introduction to the materials and tools you’ll use, explains when and why you might choose one material over another, and shows two methods for transferring beads to the wire.
Basic techniques are illustrated with numerous large, clear, colored photos. These include rounded, looped, and pointed shapes, domed shapes, and lacing to stabilize shapes with many rows. Also covered are stepped increases, notched shapes, shaded petals, and beadwrapped stems.
The projects are all lovely and wonderfully diverse. There are plenty of beautiful flowers – roses, hydrangeas, anemones, tulips, daisies, and wildflowers – as well as a butterfly and dragonfly. Donna gives you directions for a napkin ring, a rose topiary, a candle ring, berry wreath, urn of forsythia stems, a lampshade, mistletoe ball, Christmas tree, and wheat votives. Several of them are sure to send you right out to buy wire and lots and lots of seed beads. – Alice Korach
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- Sterling/Chapelle,
- 2005
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 hardcover,
- 128 pp.,
- $24.95
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