
Bead-Making Lab
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Imagine a year in beads. We're talking 52 handmade varieties all handcrafted by you! Bead-Making Lab makes this bounty of bead making possible with instructions for bead designs that run the gamut from sophisticated to playful.
Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book simple to use. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Choose from traditional materials like paper mache and polymer clay, or opt for new materials such as resins and shrink plastic. Once you've selected your medium, follow the lab instructions for the bead-making technique of your choice. Try a new technique each week! With how-tos including molding, carving, painting, gluing, drilling beach glass and pebbles, and creating fiber-art beads with felting and embroidery, you'll have a year of unique projects ahead of you.Bead-Making Lab also offers ideas on how to turn your beads into jewelry and gives you a sneak peek at some contemporary bead artisans' best work. Get busy beading, crafters!
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"A useful book for jewelrymakers who are interested in customizing their own beads and would like to try out an array of techniques." * Library Journal *More details
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Content
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Bead-Making Tools
- Unit 01 Clay
- Clay Basics
- Lab 1: Sgraffito Beads
- Lab 2: Ombré Beads
- Lab 3: Faceted Beads
- Lab 4: Matryoshka Beads
- Designer Spotlight: Heather Millican
- Lab 5: Swirl Disks
- Lab 6: Woven Stripes
- Lab 7: Milkweed Pods
- Lab 8: Renaissance Relics
- Lab 9: Rosy Posy
- Guest Bead Maker Lab Report: Claire Maunsell
- Lab 10: Faux Bois Beads
- Lab 11: Wildflowers
- Lab 12: Tiny Houses
- Lab 13: Blue Birds of Happiness
- Lab 14: Golden Owls
- Unit 02 Paper and Cork
- Paper Basics
- Lab 15: Deco Beads
- Lab 16: Color-Block Pendants
- Lab 17: Map Pendants
- Lab 18: Paper Saucer Beads
- Lab 19: Paper Patchwork Pendants
- Lab 20: Poetry Beads
- Lab 21: Faux Copper Pendants
- Lab 22: Stacked Beads
- Lab 23: Cork Coins
- Designer Spotlight: Cat Ivins
- Unit 03 Plastics
- Plastic Basics
- Lab 24: Doodle Charms
- Lab 25: Vintage Vignette Bracelet Cuffs
- Designer Spotlight: Yvonne Irvin-Faus
- Lab 26: Butterfly Charms
- Lab 27: Photo Charms
- Lab 28: Geo Watercolor Matchsticks
- Lab 29: Faux Sea Glass
- Lab 30: Dazzled Druzy Charms
- Lab 31: Charmed by Words
- Lab 32: Glossy Floral Pendants
- Guest Bead Maker Lab Report: Jen Cushman
- Unit 04 Backyard
- Natural Basics
- Lab 33: Drilled Beach Glass
- Designer Spotlight: Staci Louise Smith
- Lab 34: Gilded Pebbles
- Lab 35: Message from the Sea Charms
- Lab 36: Driftwood Beads
- Lab 37: Wood Gems
- Lab 38: Buoy Beads
- Lab 39: Acorn Beads
- Guest Bead Maker Lab Report: Carol Dekle-Foss, Terra Rustica Design
- Unit 05 Fiber and Textiles
- Fiber Basics
- Lab 40: Wee Felties
- Lab 41: Strung-Out Felt Beads
- Lab 42: Oak Leaf Pendant
- Lab 43: Folk-Art Beads
- Lab 44: Thread Riot Flower Beads
- Lab 45: Rolled Fabric Beads
- Lab 46: Rope Beads
- Lab 47: Blossom Bracelet Cuff
- Lab 48: Leather Gingko Leaf Pendant
- Designer Spotlight: Rebekah Payne
- Lab 49: Knotted Leather Beads
- Guest Bead Maker Lab Report: Gail Crosman Moore
- Unit 06 Wire
- Wire Basics
- Lab 50: Faux Enamel
- Lab 51: Wire Nest Beads
- Lab 52: Abacus Pendants
- Directory of Artists
- Resources
- Index
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright
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