Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry

Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry

Author: Karen Leonardo

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2007-11-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780896895492

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CREATE - DESIGN - WEAR &break;&break;From tiny glass beads and pendants to rings and necklaces, Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry teaches you how to create them all. &break;&break;Lampwork artist Karen J. Leonardo and her network of fellow artisans share their secrets for creating stunningly beautiful lampwork beads. In addition, these talented artists give you complete instructions for incorporating the beads into your own artistic jewelry pieces. &break;&break;Ideal for beginning, intermediate and advanced lampwork artists, Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry features: &break;&break;Guidance and tips for setting up your studio and selecting the proper tools &break;Detailed instructions with step-by-step photos for creating 16 different lampwork beads &break;14 jewelry designs to incorporate your beads into necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and pins


Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry

Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry

Author: Karen Leonardo

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-11-14

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1440221162

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CREATE - DESIGN - WEAR From tiny glass beads and pendants to rings and necklaces, Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry teaches you how to create them all. Lampwork artist Karen J. Leonardo and her network of fellow artisans share their secrets for creating stunningly beautiful lampwork beads. In addition, these talented artists give you complete instructions for incorporating the beads into your own artistic jewelry pieces. Ideal for beginning, intermediate and advanced lampwork artists, Creating Lampwork Beads for Jewelry features: • Guidance and tips for setting up your studio and selecting the proper tools • Detailed instructions with step-by-step photos for creating 16 different lampwork beads • 14 jewelry designs to incorporate your beads into necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and pins


The Art & Soul of Glass Beads

The Art & Soul of Glass Beads

Author: Susan Ray

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-04-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1440220220

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At last, a book that explores the origins and renaissance of lampwork glass beads and offers a one-on-one journey with fourteen exceptional glass bead artists as they create more than 20 projects. Step-by-step instruction and beautiful photography shows crafters how to create stunning necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and much more. This new reference gives an inside look at the artists' creative processes, including how they choose color and materials and how they add the finishing touches. Most importantly, they reveal how serendipity plays a role in their creative processes. Readers will be inspired to embark on an artistic journey to create magnificent works of art for future generations to behold.


Making Beautiful Beads

Making Beautiful Beads

Author: Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781579902889

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Work bead magic by rolling wool into hard balls, or adding metallic fiber. Coil polymer clay for a real impact. You'll find that the simplest techniques yield incredibly lovely, one-of-a-kind jewels. "Public libraries...will find this potpourri of projects a distinctive addition to crafts collections."--"Library Journal."


The Beader's Handbook on Lampwork

The Beader's Handbook on Lampwork

Author: Debby Gwaltney

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2009-01-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781441451378

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This 40 page compact pocket sized book introduces beaders to lampwork beads and how to work with them in their jewelry designs and crafts. This book shows the important differences of quality and craftsmanship between mass produced beads and handmade art glass beads. Learn how they are made, and what characteristics to look for in well made beads. The small size of this books makes it easy to carry along to bead shows and bead shops, or anytime the reader is shopping for beads. This is NOT a book on how to MAKE beads!


The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking

The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking

Author: Kimberley Adams

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781579905729

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A guide to the popular craft offers beadmakers instructions for how to torch, wind, and cool beads; directions for creating various designs, including barrels, cones, and discs; and strategies for achieving a variety of colors and patterns.


A Touch of Glass

A Touch of Glass

Author: Nancy Alden

Publisher: Potter Craft

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0307393917

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Beautiful, affordable, and infinitely versatile, glass beads provide limitless design possibilities. A Touch of Glass shows crafters how to capture the allure of glass bead jewellery that rivals the elegance and intricacy of pieces made with more precious materials. The 50 projects featured here were created by Nancy Alden and her Beadworks design team based on their extensive knowledge of designs that have lasting appeal. Whether it's a classic necklace or contemporary earrings made from carefully crafted lampwork, dichroic, seed or pressed glass beads, A Touch of Glass truly has designs for everyone. With brilliant photographs, clear instructions, a primer on the basics of jewellery making, resources for locating all the tools you need and enlightening titbits about the evolution and history of glass beads and bead-making, A Touch of Glass is a must-have for any jewellery maker's growing library.


Art Bead Jewelry

Art Bead Jewelry

Author: Karen Leonardo

Publisher: Kalmbach Books

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0871167271

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As glass beads grow in popularity, so does the need to find ways to use them in jewelry designs. Art Bead Jewelry: Seasons in Glass is perfect for anyone who loves lampworked beads but doesn’t know how to incorporate them into interesting and unique jewelry designs. Rather than concentrate on making the beads themselves, author Karen Leonardo focuses on making jewelry from finished lampwork beads (which are readily available online, in bead shops, and at shows). More than two dozen pieces from noted jewelry designers are included, with the projects ranging from easy to intermediate/advanced. Featuring full-color, photographic, step-by-step directions for each project, the book explains in plain English how to make seasonally inspired necklaces with such techniques as working wire, stringing, attaching a toggle, jump ringing, using silver clay, and seed bead basics. A gallery of gorgeous examples offers inspiration to budding and advanced beaders.


Making Metal Beads

Making Metal Beads

Author: Pauline Warg

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781579907129

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HANDICRAFTS. With this comprehensive guide, jewellers can craft 30 stunning one-of-a-kind beads in shimmering silver, copper and brass. Crafters will build a repertoire of skills, from surface embellishing to adding decorative elements. A gallery of handmade beads provides inspiration. With this comprehensive guide, jewellers can craft 30 stunning one-of-a-kind beads in shimmering silver, copper and brass. An introduction provides metalwork basics, followed by design ideas and techniques. Transform commercial beads using simple stamping, chasing and dimpling. Use cold connections to produce riveted and woven beads. Create variations in the form by using patterned, textured or hammered sheet metal. Crafters will build a repertoire of skills, from surface embellishing to adding decorative elements. A gallery of handmade beads provides inspiration.