This
book shows you how to make jewellery using the small rocaille
or seed beads that are widely available. Dealing with both
on and off loom stitches this will teach you how to make a
variety of jewellery items.
Despite the piece on the front and many inside that might
pop out at the casual browser, this is a beginner’s
book. You can learn about the beads themselves as well as
mastering such popular stitches as brick, peyote, netting,
right angle weave and more. Make beaded beads and use a beadloom,
then try out your new knowledge with a range of simple beginner’s
pieces. All through the book (and on the cover) are more complex,
showy pieces that are sure to tempt experienced beaders like
myself to think that this is a book for the advanced beader…it
isn’t. This is a pity, as apart from the misleading
gallery of artists’ work this is otherwise an excellent
book to learn with, free of confusing extraneous knowledge
and filled with clear diagrams and photographs. There are
also helpful sections at the beginning on how to use the book,
as well as the basics about choosing tools, thread and other
things, planning color schemes and more. In fact, this is
one book that ought to have the word “beginner”
in the title and I hope that many people who want to learn
this type of beadwork find it, as it is one of the better
books around to start off with.
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