Book Review : Netted Beadwork by Diane Fitzgerald - Beadwork
Netted Beadwork is a wonderful new book by Diane Fitzgerald and put out by the people at Interweave Press. I've been a fan of Diane Fitzgerald's almost since I started beading, and so it came as no surprise that this book was really fantastic, ... [... more]
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Dragon pattern - Beadwork
This pattern was a request from a young lady I chat with occasionally. I hope she likes it. It can be done in brick or in flat peyote, just zip A pattern for a dragon done in only a few colors. - Dragon pattern - Beadwork is a personally written ... [... more]
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Crochet With Wire & Beadwork Creates Earrings - Beadwork
Reviews of two of the most recent books from Interweave Press - Crochet With Wire & Beadwork Creates Earrings - Beadwork is a personally written site at BellaOnline Beadwork Creates Earrings Edited by Jean Campbell, is Interweave's most recent ... [... more]
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Earring Advent Event - Christmas Eve - Beadwork
Twas the night before Christmas.. more earring patterns - Earring Advent Event - Christmas Eve - Beadwork is a personally written site at BellaOnline A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all ... [... more]
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Little Beaded Shamrocks - Beadwork
These simple shamrocks are a nice way to add a spot of green to your outfit or beadwork for St. Patrick's day. I hope you enjoy them. I sewed these to hair accessories, but you could just as easily use a spot of repositional glue to put them on a ... [... more]
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Let it Snow Pt 2 - Beadwork
In the first Let it Snow I explained how I graphed snowflakes. Here's a collection of snowflakes I graphed including a pattern for an amulet bag done with them. Some snowflake patterns I made up for you. - Let it Snow Pt 2 - Beadwork is a ... [... more]
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Tessellated Skull Pattern - Beadwork
I love tessellated designs and beadwork stitches lend themselves very well to tessellated patterns. I also get a lot of requests for skull patterns, and designed this one for Halloween. My model was done with Japanese size 11 seed beads, plastic ... [... more]
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The Technique of North American Indian Beadwork
 A Book for Beginners: Monte Smith has produced an excellent book for anyone wishing to begin authentic beadwork. He provides complete information regarding the materials and supplies needed. There is a lot of information about the technical aspects of [... more]
$13.95
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Designer Beadwork: French Beaded Designs
Another great book: I just received this book a few days ago, and I can tell already that this will be up there on my list of greatly used books! This book also has wonderful pictures of the finished product with much inspiration. I have not sat down to [... more]
$14.95
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Beadwork Creates Jewelry: 40 Beaded Designs
This book will tempt you to get beading ASAP: I have done a few beaded projects: I tried bead knitting a small bag and I made a really stunning tomato pincushion with beaded crochet. This book covers those techniques in the glossary/instructions in the [... more]
$18.95
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Beadwork Inspired by Art: Impressionist Jewelry and ...
My take on the content:: Lovely cover, but frankly, I was very disappointed in the lack of projects. No attempt to correlate any relationship between the content and impressionist art unless they were counting on the couple colors of beads used. I think [... more]
$19.99
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North American Indian Beadwork Designs
at this price, of course its five stars: originally published in 1919, this is a good, if very brief, basic reference. its age is a plus--the illustrations are of items that had, on the whole, not yet been influenced by tourist trade. there's a very [... more]
$4.95
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