- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Interweave Press (Nov 15 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1883010993
- ISBN-13: 978-1883010997
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #924,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
The herringbone stitch is a versatile and unique off-loom bead technique. Popularized as the “Ndbele Weave” for its use by a South African tribe of the same name, the stitch is characterized by its snakeskin feel and visible chevron pattern. This guide offers a thorough historical and cultural background of the stitch, along with complete instructions for creating beautiful beaded projects. Also provided are techniques for creating flat and tubular herringbone stitch samples and a gallery of inspirational pieces from established artists.
About the Author
Vicki Star is the author of Beading with Peyote Stitch and Beady Eyed Woman. She teaches workshops nationwide and publishes a beading Web site and newsletter. She lives in San Diego, California.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Too little...of everything!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Beading with Herringbone Stitch (Paperback)
This is typical "white middle class woman" beading!The history and research is glossed over with a few pages and a map. Shame on the folks at Beadwork for putting their name on this book! Ndebele, not the anglicized "herringbone" stitch! The how too drawings are not clear. Take a page out of Carol Wilcox Wells, madam! If you are going to do instructional work, be clear to the audience. The sketches are decent, but you can not be sure where the thread goes when you start doing more advanced work in ndebele. The most disappointing aspect of this book? The projects are horrible and the gallery is full of lovely examples that would be much better practice and more rewarding! The gallery is too large and segmented. Why not, again, take a page out of Carol Wilcox Wells' book and pepper gallery with projects, projects that are desirable! The ndebele "kalaidascope" is merely a tube, and the "vessels" are just tulip shaped vases. I would save your money on this one, find a nice example of of "how to" in Virginia Blakelock's "Those Bad Bad Beads" then pick up a copy of Jean Morris and Eleanor Preston-Whyte's "Speaking with Beads: Zulu Arts from Southern Africa." The stitch itself is not complex at all, but this book makes tinkerbell items that are rather ugly by comparison to the potential that is there. I was soundly disappointed when I got this book. I think Beadwork/Taunten press rushes to print these books because they have an instant market, but this book founders badly on the shores of craft book. Buy the two books mentioned above, you will be much better served!
2.0 out of 5 stars
I must agree.......,
By devakat (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beading with Herringbone Stitch (Paperback)
this book is not worth purchasing for more than $2. The projects are boring and the gallery is small. I would also have liked to see some of the gallery pieces matched with a technique in a project.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bright colors with little beads,
By Christine Saalbach (San Antonio TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beading with Herringbone Stitch (Paperback)
Vicki and her friend Stephney Hornblow visited and beaded with Ndebele masters. Another friend, Evelyn Cohen, shared her photographs for the book, making the first chapter a blast of color and design. Now inspired, you learn about supplies and herringbone techniques. These are followed by fairly complex, but well-explained, projects. The gallery at the book's end consists of 22 pages of projects made by obviously very advanced bead artists -- WOW! -- fodder for your bead brain to ponder.
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