- Paperback: 113 pages
- Publisher: Krause Publications (Aug 12 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801988438
- ISBN-13: 978-0801988431
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 21 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,270,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An excellent introduction to many aspects of bead craft, The Irresistible Bead thoroughly explains how to design your own jewelry and bring the designs to life using wirework, stringing, card beading, weaving, and polymer-clay techniques. Each of the 20 clearly illustrated projects is fully explained in step-by-step instructions. The chapters for each technique conclude with a helpful "designer's notebook" that is filled with colored diagrams offering several more ideas for exploring the methods. The final chapter showcases elaborate work by nine bead artists, and the seven helpful appendices include charts of bead sizes, diagrams of various findings, a glossary, and three different design graphs that can be photocopied and used over and over for your own designs.
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Jewelry designs to suit every taste are included, such as Victorian brooches, shimmering amulet bags, and brightly colored clay necklaces. The Irresistable Bead captures the allure of beads while taking beadwork jewelry into the 21st century. Twenty-one jewelry projects are explained with color illustrations and beautiful color photographs.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for Beginning Designers,
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This review is from: Irresistible Bead (Paperback)
This book starts with a chapter on color, design, and the texture. It ends with a basic list of tools and supplies for making the projects in the book.There are chapters on wireworking, bead stringing, bead embroidery, woven beadwork, and polymer clay. There are a few projects in each chapter but I really love the Designer's Notes at the end of the chapter. These pages include sketches of other ideas that can be created with the technique just learned. The gallery is yummy with enough to whet your appetite for more or better yet, making your own masterpiece(s). But the Appendix is what I really love about this book. There are guides to bead sizes, a standard list of jewelry lengths, and pictures of basic jewelry findings. Plus a glossary of precious and semiprecious stones; a beader's glossary of terms; birthstones - both traditional and astrological; blank graphs for loom/square, peyote, and brick stitches.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A few great pieces,
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This review is from: Irresistible Bead (Paperback)
This is a beautifully done jewelry-making book. The pages are nicely organized and uncluttered with large, colorful photographs and drawings that clearly show details of the jewelry pieces. There are a few items I don't care for, but most are very pretty with wonderful color and texture combinations, in a variety of styles.This is not a complete beading book however, for example, as one reviewer mentions, there are no instructions for knotted bead jewelry. Rather, the author focuses on a few techniques, with a few projects given for each technique: wirework (brooch, stickpin, a beautiful "cleopatra" necklace, and a wire-wrapped rock bracelet); bead stringing (choker, three pretty necklaces of different designs, beaded watch strap, and an Indian-look fringed bead necklace); sewing beads onto a surface (brooch, pin, necklace); woven beadwork (daisy chain necklace, diamond shaped earrings, bracelet, peyote stitch pouch necklace...all made with seed beads); polymer clay beads (which includes instructions for making the beads, some in the shape of flowers). My only complaint is that there are only a few projects for each technique. Yet, some of them are so very pretty that I decided the low price of the book justified its purchase. Note for beginners: There is not a techniques section; instead the techniques are taught within each project's instructions, so a beginner should start at the front, where the most basic techniques are taught, and work her way through the book. Although the instructions are mostly clearly explained and illustrated, a little prior experience with jewelry findings (such as clasps), and doing some wirework may be helpful.
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Irrestible Bead,
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This review is from: Irresistible Bead (Paperback)
...Unfortunately, it really didn't live up to my expectations. I was looking for something that would cover all of the basics, i.e knots etc. But after reading through, I realized that the author takes allot for granted. I would certainly not recommend this to anyone looking for something to start with.
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