References for Rockhounds Bead Work

Advanced Beadwork is a clearly written exploration of all major beading techniques, including metal work and soldering. With more than 300 illustrations and photographs, this is an indispensable book for anyone interested in beadwork. Soft cover, 8.5" x 11", 148 pages.

The Basics of Bead Stringing addresses the most common and popular questions of those who would like to begin designing and producing their own jewelry. Basic bead stringing and wire wrapping techniques are demonstrated step-by-step. Soft cover, 5.5" x 8.5", 82 pages.

The Beader's Companion is compact, sturdy and easy to read, filled with definitions and illustrations of techniques, beads and tools. This book provides basic step-by-step information. Covered are types of beads, bead glass finishes, bead sizing, thread and cord, waxes and conditioners, needles, off-loom stitches, loom techniques, stringing beads, embroidery techniques, knitting with beads, crochet with beads, macreme, findings, wirework, and finishing. Soft cover, 7" x 5.5", 104 pages.

Make a fashion statement with your own beautiful handcrafted jewelry! Packed with techniques, projects and insider tips, Bead On A Wire is all you need to make stunning beaded wire jewelry. Author Sharilyn Miller shares her enthusiasm, experience and expertise to make this book a must-have for jewelry-makers of all skill levels. So whether you're beginning your first bracelet or your hundredth, you're sure to find inspiration.

Bead On A Wire features a comprehensive introductory section and more than 20 step-by-step projects. With clearly illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to:
- Construct jewelry without soldering tools or other intimidating equipment
- Fashion beautiful earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and fibulas not readily found in stores
- Stock your jewelry toolkit with only the necessary tools
- Make jump rings, links, clasps and other basic jewelry components to keep on hand for future projects
- Create project variations and new designs with your own one-of-a-kind look

Techniques presented include: Working With Jewelry Pliers, Cleaning and Cutting Wire, Hammering Wire, Making a Spiral, Making Jump Rings, Making Twisted Wire Jump Rings, Making a Simple Eye Pin, Making a Basic Coil, Making a Single-Coiled Bead Wrap, Making a Wrapped Eye Pin Link, Making a Bead Dangle With a Single Eye Pin, Making a Bead Dangle With a Double Eye Pin, Making a Bead Connector, Making a Coiled-Wire Bead Wrap, Making a Double-Coiled Wire Bead Wrap, Making a Caged Bead, Making and Joining Easy Links, Making and Joining S Links, Making a Circle Link, Making a Heart Link, Making a Hook-and-Eye Clasp, Making a Hook Clasp for Linked Jewelry, Making an S Clasp, Making an S Clasp With a Bead, Making a "Big Hook" Clasp, Making a Pendant Suspender, Making a Pendant Dependant, Sharpening and Filing Wire to a Point, Making Charms from Leftover Wire, Artificially Aging Jewelry, and Sharilyn's Tips for Jewelry Making.

Illustrated, step-by-step projects presented include: Hoop Earrings, Circle Link Bracelet, Beaded Bangle, Classic Fibula, Bead-Wrap Bracelet, Shepard's Hook Earrings, Simple Jump Ring Bracelet, Arty Choker, Delicate Pendant, Jump Ring Charm Bracelet, Linked Hearts Bracelet, Caged Bead Necklace, Bead Drop Jewelry, Abstract-Shaped Pin, Heart Link Convertible Jewelry, Coiled Wire Bangle, Party Watch, S Link Charm Bracelet, Milagro Charm Necklace, and Twin-Spiral Bracelet.

Never again will you have to hunt for the perfect necklace to match your new outfit. Now with Bead On A Wire, you can create jewelry that suits your style, fits your wardrobe and reflects your personality.

Beading With Cabochons shows you step-by-step how to combine an amazing variety of cabochons and beads on sophisticated jewelry. Both beads and cabochons offer virtually unlimited creative opportunities for jewelry artists. Jamie Cloud Eakin shows you the basic techniques and the unique stitches she developed over more than a decade. Her projects range from a pair of double-cabochon earrings to and elaborately fringed dichroic glass necklace. With so many cabochons and beads to chose from, each piece you make will be one of a kind.

The step-by-step projects include: Fringed Dichroic Glass Necklace, Oval Solitaire Rhodonite Bracelet, Noondrite Jasper Necklace, Sea Moss Ladder Bracelet, Double Cabochon Dangle Earrings, Leopardskin Jasper Necklace, Black Onyx Pin, Victorian Triple Cabochon Bracelet, Southwest Spirit Necklace, Fringed Tiger-Eye Cabochon Earrings and Crazy Lace Agate Pin.

Chapters include: 1 Materials and Tools, 2 Basic Cabochon Beading, 3 Edge Stitches, 4 Attachment Methods, 5 Other Bezel Stitches, 6 The Projects, and 7 Creating Your Own Designs. Also included is a photo gallery of beaded cabochon jewelry by talented artists, an appendix on attaching findings, an index to stitches and a note about suppliers.

Beads The Art of Stringing is the most inexpensive guide available that describes the invaluable techniques of knotting in bead stringing. Step-by-step instructions explain knotting between beads using your fingers, a beading awl, or "tee pin", or the double needle method. Materials you will need to get started are described in detail. Techniques in stringing and knotting are explained with easy-to-understand text and illustrations for the beginner. Soft cover, 5.5" x 8.5", 58 pages.

They sparkle, shimmer, jangle and jingle. Beads come in all sizes, shapes and colors, from shiny elegant bugle beads to colorful ethnic clay and wooden beads, to valuable gems and freshwater pearls. In Beadwork Basics, noted bead artesian Ann Benson will help you discover the infinite potential of beadwork in a wide variety of jewelry and accessories.

Capture the spirit of the American Southwest in a stunning beaded watchband. Step back in time to a bygone era with a sunset rose clutch purse, or if you prefer modern elegance add to your wardrobe a five-strand twisted necklace in the colors of the seashore. From the cacophonous color of the coveted crystal necklace and the ultramodern glamour of a Marilyn Monroe pin to the delicate sweetness of the Mille Fleur bracelet and the charm of an heirloom pin, the 29 projects - each illustrated with a full-color photograph - will inspire you to start stringing, weaving and stitching with beads right away.

Beadwork Basics is organized into three major sections: All About Beads, Beadwork Projects, and General Information.

All About Beads covers: Large Glass Beads, Bone Beads, Rough Ceramic Beads, Synthetic Clay Beads, Metal Beads, Faux Pearls, Shell Beads, Wood Beads, Plastic Beads, Decorated Ceramic Beads, Faceted Glass Beads, Semi-Precious Stones, Beading Components, Bead Sizes, Bead Finishes, and Earrings.

Projects include: Mille Fleur Bracelet, Black and White Pin and Earring Set, Beaded Bouquet Clutch Bag, Cobalt and Gold Cabochon Earrings, Delft Knotted Necklace, Isis Pin, Fruit Loops Necklace, Five-Strands Twisted Necklace, "Eye" Lights Eyepin Necklace and Earrings, Brick Stitch Barrette, Fancy Stix Stick Pins, Double Peyotes Barrette, Marilyn's Pin, Beads on Time Beaded Watchband, Silver Loops Necklace and Earrings, Five Cats Necklace and Earrings, Sunset Rose Clutch Purse, Nature's Accessories Hairsticks, Cabochon Collectibles Necklace and Earrings, An Heirloom Pin, Vivé la France French Wire Earrings, Coveted Crystals Necklace, Turquoise Twosome Necklace and Earrings, Scarab Pin, Silver Star Choker, Victoria's Legacy Pin, Gold & Silver Cap Earrings, Over the Peyote Rainbow Bracelet, Sunburst Necklace and Earrings.

General Information provides: Brick Stitch Samples, General Instructions for Tools, Finishing Techniques, Beading on Surfaces, Bead Needleweaving, Other Crafty Ideas, a Metric Equivalency Chart and an Index.

Try your hand at the full creative range of beading, from making your own beads to using different varieties on great projects. Beautiful Beading shows you how to work with exciting materials like polymer clay, paper mâché, and metal to create fantastic beads in beautiful colors, textures, and patterns, The techniques range from simple, like threading, to more complex such as weaving by hand or on a loom. Craft not only gorgeous jewelry, but also stunning decorative accents for you home.

Beautiful Beading is organized into three major sections: Making and Decorating Beads, Making Jewelry, and Decorating Objects. Making Beads shows you how to make beads from polymer clay, air dry clay, wire, copper sheet, wooden doweling, and paper. This section provides tutorials on using molds, shaping and collaging, and making"gizmo" beads. Decorating Beads illustrates the use of plastic, paper mâché, and string to embellish plain beads.

Making Jewelry shows you how with projects: Bird and Beads Necklace and Earrings, Braided Necklace and Earrings, Knots Necklace, Clay Beads Necklace, Copper Pendant, Paper Bead Chain, Wrapped Stone Pendant, Amethyst Earrings and Bracelet, Striped Woven Bracelet, Aquamarine Chip Choker, and Turquoise and Silver Multistrand Necklace.

Decorating Objects expands the use of beads beyond jewelry and provides ideas for using beads and beading techniques to decorate and enhance other objects such as: Windchimes, Daisy Candle Holder, Kitsch Frame, Tiara Frame, Napkin Ring and Decorated Jug, Beaded Slippers, Fringed Scarf, Evening Bag, and Terracotta Pot.

Creative Native American Beading features colorful artistic themes inspired by nature which have cultural meaning to the native peoples of North America. Author Theresa Flores Geary shows how to create a variety of beautiful, traditional beaded projects using contemporary tools and materials. In earlier times, for example, Native beaders often worked on leather. Although leather is a supple material, it's not comparable to synthetics such as Ultrasuede®, through which a needle glides smoothly.

Creative Native American Beading gives you a quick course in reading beading patterns, familiarizes you with the basic stitches, and provides some design tips. It then presents a assortment of nineteen useful and decorative projects ranging in skill levels from beginner to advanced for you to complete or use as a starting point for your own designs.

The illustrated projects include Rock-Art Pottery, Badge-Holder Necklace, White Buffalo Calf Earrings, Sun-Rosette Medallion, Zuni Triple-Strand Bracelet, Horsehair Hatband, Coyote Pottery Earrings, Free-Form Peyote Bracelet, Blue Violet flower, Rope Eyeglass Holder, Thunderbird Lighter Case, Waterbird Tobacco or Medicine Bag, Huichol-Lace Sun Catcher, Ladder-Chain Bracelet, Dream-Catcher Ornament, Southwest Gecko Pin, Sage Bear Sachet, Native American Maiden, and Blue Kokopelli Amulet Bag. Addendums include Bag Patterns, Beadwork Glossary and Index.

Learn to manipulate hot glass to make beautiful flameworked shapes and objects that you'll assemble into larger sculptural and functional pieces. These techniques are the most accessible way to begin working with hot glass and are fully explained in this groundbreaking book. If you already have some experience, you'll find many new flameworking techniques with which to express your artistic vision. The detailed and easy to follow exercises, brought to life by sophisticated projects, will enable you to build a series of skill with each one you complete. Contents include Introduction, Glass Basics, Setting Up Your Studio, Healing "Devit," Creases and Cracks, Color, Glorious color!, Glass Rods and Tubing, Making Gathers, Experimenting with Gravity and Fusing Rods, making a Leaf and Variations, Embellishing Leaves, Making Marias and Transitional Shapes, Casing a Clear rod with Color, Making a Heart Shape, Making a Fish Shape with Frit Color, Making A Flower, Making Icicles with Stripes, Working with Tubing and Making a Candle holder. Projects include Versatile Plant Stakes, Flowers with Leaves and Stems, Colorful Suncatcher, Kinetic Mobile Leaf, Candlestick with Transitional Shapes, Decorative Glass Candies, Beads as Glass Sculpture, Tall Candlestick with Fish Motif, Heart Wall Sculpture, Flower Candleholder and Fish Sculpture. Hard Cover, 9" x 10.5", 174 pages.

Use beads and wire imaginatively to make the most fabulous jewelry, including earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants, and eyeglass chains. It's easier now than ever before with the incredible range of readily available bead-making supplies, color-tinted wire that gives you a whole new palette of choices, and specialty wire that was previously available only to professionals. Try your hand at making a wire wrap choker, teal coils hair clip, evergreen wire and crystal beads necklace, caged beads bracelet, gemstone pendants, dancing bead people earrings, pins and pendants, bead flower choker and earrings and many more projects. A bonus feature is more than 30 patterns to use with a jig to create lovely wire links. Soft cover, 8.5" x 10", 128 pages.

Create 40 beautiful, one-of-a-kind beads in shimmering silver, copper, gold and other metals. Comprehensive and profusely illustrated, Making Metal Beads is an exceptional reference presenting many innovative design ideas and inventive techniques that will expand your jewelry-making skills.

Start by familiarizing yourself with the tools involved and how to use them correctly. Master the basics of metalsmithing that you'll need to create the projects, then learn how to finish and string your beads, making them into stunning jewelry.

Some projects will teach you how to embellish store-bought beads with eye-catching decorative elements or transform their surface in unusual ways. For example, hammering a pointed stamping tool around a bead will leave a slight impression, while using a torch to heat the surface will produce a fine reticulated texture in just seconds. Sawing patterns of fine lines around a bead's outer edge is another way to produce a unique effect.

Other projects involve creating a bead from scratch. Try cutting and capping commercial tubing and enhancing the pieces with patterned, twisted or beaded wire; weaving tiny baskets; and fusing wire into cylindrical grids. Use a hydraulic press to push sheet metal into a dimensional form with softly flowing organic shapes or geometric contours. Or wrap patterned, textured, or hammered sheet metal into a shape that looks similar to a crescent dinner roll.

To further inspire you, many talented artists have contributed color photographs of their own exceptional designs. Your varied and distinctive projects will look exceptional strung alone or mixed with gem or glass beads.

The how-to in Making Metal Beads is organized into 8 chapters. The Basics presents the fundamentals of Sawing, Filing, Sanding, Drilling, Piercing, Forming, Soldering, Finishing, and Stringing. Transforming Commercial Beads covers Stamping & Chasing Round Beads, Cutting & Dimpling Beads, Reticulating Beads, Soldering Wires to Beads, Soldering Balls to Beads and Soldering Sheet Metal to Beads. Making Cold-Connected Beads shows you how to make The Tube-Riveted Double-Dome Bead, The Notched Interlock Bead, The Notched Center Connector Bead and The Woven Bead. Making Beads From Tubing provides how-to for making The Basic Tube Bead, Embellishing Tube Beads with Cold Techniques, The Wire-Wrapped Tube Bead, and The Reshaped Tube Bead.

Making Soldered Double-Dome Beads illustrates techniques for making The Double-Dome Bead with Centered Holes, The Double-Dome Bead with Holes through the Rim and Embellishing Double-Dome Beads. Making Fused Beads shows you how to make The Round or Saucer-Shaped Fused Bead and The Tubular Fused Bead. Making Beads With The Hydraulic Press provides how-to for making The Matrix Die-Formed Bead and The Pressed Tube Bead. Making More Metal Beads presents The Square Bead, The Crescent Roll Bead and the Eight-Dome Bead.

Appendices include Templates & Charts, Acknowledgements, Index, Contributing Artists, About the Author, and Notes on Suppliers. Readers will appreciate Making Metal Beads for its lavish color photographs and the ideas and inspirations provided by many gallery pages illustrating metal beads designed and created by skilled smiths and bead making artists.

You can create genuine precious and semiprecious, high fashion jewelry for a fraction of their retail cost or simply learn to restring your own pearls and beads just like professionals do. Adapted from her successful craft series, Henrietta shows you step-by-step different techniques of knotting beads, including finger knotting. You'll learn the sources for materials and how to get started in your own business plus a whole lot more. A wealth of information for the beginner as well as the more advanced. Soft cover, 5.5" x 8.5", 78 pages.

Step-by-Step Bead Stringing provides a starting point for learning the basic skills of stringing and restringing beads. The instructions explain all the basic techniques for working with beads from simple inexpensive wood, plastic or glass to precious gemstones and pearls. The instructions are fully illustrated and may be followed step-by-step. Soft cover, 5.5" x 8.5", 45 pages.

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