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Beaders Stash
Beaders Stash; Designs from America's Favourite
Bead Shops by Laura Levaas; Softback, Colour, 143 pages. This book
showcases all forms of beads, jewelry, home décor and accessories,
and offers something for everyone. For beginners, lots of stringing
and wireworking projects, for more advanced beaders, bead embroidery
and seed bead stitches. Lots of ideas, from traditional to contemporary,
with innovative projects that show great appeal and interesting use
of materials. Look inside the world of the bead shop, receive insider
tips from professionals, learn ways to conquer your bead hoard, and
become involved with a technique - stringing, weaving, loomwork, felting,
bead embroidery, wire wrapping, soldering etc. The book also includes
a 'Beader's Basics' section, an illustrated technique glossary and
bead shop insider tips.'
£13.50
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Designs for Beaded Jewellery Using
Natural Materials
Designs for Beaded Jewellery (Using Natural
Materials) by Maria Di Spirito. Softback, Colour, 64 pages. Like the
other book written by the same author (Designs for Beaded Jewellery
- Glass Beads), this is a different type of book to many others on
the site - like its sister publication, the book focuses exclusively
on the DESIGN of pieces and gives the BAREST bones instructions on
how to make them, other than a very cursory brief list of components
and a brief description on the construction of the piece - the rest
is left to the reader/maker - therefore, we would have to say that
this is a book for advanced jewellery makers - i.e., if you know all
the techniques, then this is the one for you - having said that, there
were techniques employed that we were unfamiliar with - oh well, I
guess we could always go and look them up in other books! Having said
all this, the items of jewellery are interesting, and the photography
is clear and in most cases, its possible to mentally deconstruct a
piece to come up with the steps to re-construct it in real life -
however, the prime purpose of any book we would argue is that it is
there to inspire, not to invite slavish copying, and by attempting
to deconstruct the projects in this book, it is highly likely you
would come up with some original ideas of your own - so initially,
whilst we were taken aback a little by the paucity of instructions,
this book does definitely challenge and inspire.
£6.50
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BO-75
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Necklaces - The Art of Collectibles
by Soraya Feder
Necklaces - The Art of Collectibles by Soraya
Feder - Softback. Necklaces are the indispensable accessory. A must
for star glamour, the finishing touch to fashion designers' collections,
they also provide that special extra something for casual, everyday
wear. Rhinestones, plastics, Plexiglas, copper, brass, coloured glass
and crystal have all inspired the top costume jewellery designers
- Roger Jean-Pierre, Elsa Schiaparelli, Miriam Haskell and Joseff
of Hollywood. This is a beautiful book full of wonderful jewellery
and it should provide a great deal of inspiration for jewellery making
beady book worms.
£8.75
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