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. For the beginner and the improver, it's a passport to successful learning.
This comprehensive reference fully explores the various types of beadwork, including beading on fabric, fringing, bead weavings, bead embroidery, and beaded jewelry. With easy-to-follow organization, this guide provides step-by-step directions and 500 full color photos for clear understanding. Basic projects provide opportunities for crafters to try the techniques, and galleries of unique beaded designs and creations by various bead artists offer beautiful examples and inspiration. It’s the only book you need to get started on beadwork. Begin your beading adventure today with The Complete Photo Guide to Beading!
Mastering the Art of Beading will do for jewelry making what Julia Child did for French food. In this definitive guide to all things beads, expert jewelry maker Genevieve A. Sterbenz covers all of the terms, tools, skills, and shortcuts necessary for creating beautiful beaded jewelry. With more than 800 how-to photographs, detailed and illustrated techniques, a photographic glossary, and useful resources, this book is packed to the brim with beading essentials. In addition, Sterbenz presents step-by-step instructions for 50 stunning projects in a range of techniques and styles. An accessible compendium dissecting every aspect of this popular craft, Mastering the Art of Beading will be the resource craftersdabblers and experts alikewill want on their bookshelf for years to come.
'Diamond Weave' contains much more than the 23 projects mentioned on its cover. It offers many step-by-step lessons building upon one another to learn this fantastic new beading stitch. You will learn basic Diamond Weave and complex variations, including various hexagon and octagon weaves, a Chinese coin motif weave and 'Waffle Weave'. The projects, each more beautiful than the other, have been designed to practice your new skills.In addition to a multitude of designer's tips, notes and inspirational anecdotes to develop your own creativity, and push your designs further, the book also includes an impressive number of methods to attach or even make closures, including beautiful smooth buttonholes.Practical in size with big illustrations and a comfy font, this book belongs on every beader's desk, from beginner to master.
Bicones, buttons, drops, rhinestones. Glittering and colorful, these and other multi-faceted glass crystal beads have become the jewelry maker’s material of choice. They’re the star of the show in this sparkling entry in the Beading with series, which features a fabulous combination of both simple and more complex projects. Crafters start their creative journey by learning basic techniques, including stringing and simple wirework (looping, wrapping, coiling). Then they’re ready to start making pieces that range from a necklace of matte metal beads and shimmering crystals to a captivating pair of chandelier earrings. Sophisticated jewelry findings accent the finished pieces, and detailed illustrations make the process easy and successful for beginners. A Selection of the Crafter's Choice Book Club.
Martha McCulloch-Williams' 'Harper's Household Handbook: A guide to easy ways of doing woman's work' is a comprehensive and insightful look into the domestic duties of women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Written in a straightforward and practical style, the book covers a wide range of topics including cooking, cleaning, child-rearing, and household management. The author's detailed instructions and helpful tips provide a valuable resource for women seeking to maintain a well-run household during a time of rapid social change. McCulloch-Williams' literary style is clear and concise, making the book accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Her emphasis on efficiency and organization reflects the growing importance of domestic science during the Victorian era. Martha McCulloch-Williams, a pioneering journalist and author, drew on her own experiences as a wife and mother to write 'Harper's Household Handbook'. With a keen understanding of the challenges faced by women in the home, she sought to empower her readers with practical advice and solutions. Her commitment to women's education and empowerment is evident throughout the book, making it a valuable historical document as well as a practical guide. I recommend 'Harper's Household Handbook' to anyone interested in domestic history, women's studies, or the changing role of women in society. McCulloch-Williams' insightful advice and thoughtful commentary provide a fascinating glimpse into the daily lives of women in the late 19th century, offering valuable lessons that still resonate today.
Beaders everywhere are discovering the extraordinary creative potential and pleasure of making unique, one-of-a-kind beads from existing beads themselves. This lushly illustrated guide. now in a paperback version, offers them a blast of inspiration, with 40 fabulous designs from today?s finest beadwork artists. Ranging from understated to pure dazzling glam, these projects showcase a range of innovative techniques. Among the standouts: a peyote-stitched Tetrahedron Beaded Bead; a Peek-A-Boo Bead, using steel nuts from the hardware store; and a cylinder-shaped Pi?ata Bead, decorated with smaller beads resembling tiny, colorful party balloons.
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. For the beginner and theimprover, it's a passport to successful learning. Features include: Hundreds of detailed how-to photographs, carefullyannotated so it is easy for you to see what you should be looking at. Guestdesigners sharing some of their favourite patterns. "Quick-start" projects forbeginners who are impatient to try out their skills on projects that don't needmuch in the way of materials or time. Really useful lists sprinkled throughoutthe pages, for readers who want to quickly understand the essentials. Beader'sclinics: "Doctor" Jean solves her students' beading dilemmas.
Scandal and slayings among Regency London’s elite . . . Refusing to stand by while the wealthy men of London prey on their powerless scullery maids and other young women, Miss Emmeline St. Germaine has made it her mission to rescue the victims and threaten the men at dagger-point to cease their depravities. But mere hours after she pays just such a visit to a prominent knight, he’s found murdered and all of London is aghast. Did the man—or woman—who murdered the knight know of her visit? Facing scandal and the ruination of her family, Emmeline must solve the crime before she and her work are exposed. But there are powerful forces at work to silence her—or worse, lead her to the hangman’s noose for a crime she did not commit . . . “[An] outstanding series launch. . . . Hamilton expertly balances the page-turning detection with the story of a hypocritical society where women, whether they are scullery maids or orphans, rarely get to make their own decisions.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Hamilton’s novel will appeal to fans of Anne Perry’s Charlotte and Pitt mysteries.” —Booklist “A simply riveting and compulsive page-turner of a read from cover to cover. A deftly scripted mystery with more twists and turns than a Coney Island roller coaster.” —Midwest Book Review