Woman's Weekly Guide to Beading
Techniques and Projects to Build a Lifelong Passion, for Beginners Up
Published on 20. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78221-384-0 (ISBN)
Description
If you can't get to a beading class or workshop close to home or work, this skill-building book is the next best thing. For the beginner and the improver, it's a passport to successful learning.
Features include: hundreds of detailed how-to photographs, carefully annotated so it is easy for you to see what you should be looking at; guest designers sharing some of their favourite patterns; 'quick-start' projects for beginners who are impatient to try out their skills on designs that don't need much in the way of materials or time and really useful lists sprinkled throughout the pages for readers who want to quickly understand the essentials.
Plus, beaders' clinics, where 'Doctor' Jean solves her students' beading dilemmas.
The book will be featured in the weekly magazine, at Woman's Weekly shows, in special Woman's Weekly craft issues, at their workshops and events and on www.womansweekly.com.
Woman's Weekly has a weekly circulation of 296,793!
Features include: hundreds of detailed how-to photographs, carefully annotated so it is easy for you to see what you should be looking at; guest designers sharing some of their favourite patterns; 'quick-start' projects for beginners who are impatient to try out their skills on designs that don't need much in the way of materials or time and really useful lists sprinkled throughout the pages for readers who want to quickly understand the essentials.
Plus, beaders' clinics, where 'Doctor' Jean solves her students' beading dilemmas.
The book will be featured in the weekly magazine, at Woman's Weekly shows, in special Woman's Weekly craft issues, at their workshops and events and on www.womansweekly.com.
Woman's Weekly has a weekly circulation of 296,793!
Reviews / Votes
121 - Spring/Summer 2016Written by one of the UK's best known beaders, Jean Power is well known for her Geometric designs, but I feel that she has never forgotten what she has never forgotten what it is like to start in this extraordinary world of beads and how scary it looks. The book takes away the fear and gives the reader the key to enter the world of beads. Beautifully laid out, Chapter 1 starts with beads findings and tools, what they are and what they do. All the things you need to get started without making expensive mistakes. The next 3 chapters take you through the basics of stringing, wirework and beadwork. Each chapter begins with inspiration photos from some of the best beaders in the country. Then Jean shows you the supplies required for the particular chapter. Then we start on the basics with very clear photographs and diagrams, step by step. The very useful tips that are set down the side of the page will help even more to expand the way the reader learns the technique. As the pages are turned through the chapters, the 'oh i'd like to try that' jumps off the page. I wish this book was about when I first started beading, it would have saved me so many mistakes! Brilliant tips great photos, easy to understand disgrams, well explained in a very good value must have book that will be used over and over again. * Love to Make * Jean Power teachers you everything you need to know about beading in this new title from the Woman's Weekly portfolio, which features hundreds of how-to photographs, carefully annotated. Guest designers share some of their favourite patterns, plus there are some 'quick-start' projects for beginners who are impatient to try out their wskills useful lists are sprinkled throughout the pages for readers who want to understand the essentials quickly. If you can't get to a beading class or workshop close to home or work, then this skill building book is the next best thing. * Love to Make *
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tunbridge Wells
United Kingdom
Illustrations
500 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
518 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78221-384-0 (9781782213840)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jean Power is a professional, award-winning beading and jewelry designer, writer and teacher. Born and brought up in London, she grew up with a love of crafts and art and devotes as much time as possible to writing, teaching and beading. Jean's beading and jewelry designs have been published in numerous magazines and books around the world, including Bead & Button, Beadwork, Step-by-step Beads, and Jewelry Crafts. She is the co-author of two previous jewelry books and is the editor of Bead, the UK's first magazine devoted entirely to beading and jewelry making.