Beading Techniques and Projects to Build a Lifelong Passion For Beginners Up [Paperback]

This award-winning jewelry designer shows beginners how to use stringing, beadwork, and wire to create stunning pieces. Includes hundreds of detailed how-to photographs, Quick Start projects, clinics to help students solve project dilemmas, and more.Can't get to a class or workshop that's close to home or work? No worries. This skill-building beading book let you learn at your own pace, wherever and whenever you have the time. For beginners and improvers, it's a passport to successful learning. Includes:

• Hundreds of detailed how-to photographs, carefully annotated so it is easy for you to find what you're looking for
• Guest designers sharing some of their favorite patterns
• Quick start projects for beginners who are impatient to try out their beading skills--or for improvers looking to brush up on techniques--with projects that don't need much in the way of materials and time
• Useful techniques sprinkled throughout, so readers can quickly understand essential concepts
• Clinics to help students solve project dilemmas

Find the techniques necessary to learn beading and love it--in no time at all! The presentation is highly visual, with full-color photographs and illustrations throughout to complement the instructions. VERDICT: Novice jewelry?makers in need of a visual guide to basic beadwork techniques will be drawn to this work.
—Library Journal New to beading or want to learn a different technique? Then this is a great book to start with. Jean teaches you the basics of stringing, wirework, and beadwork, along with a section on findings, tools, and working with color. Using many photos and step-by-step instructions, each technique is described in detail and follows with several projects from guest designers. This is also a great book to use as a reference to brush up on techniques you may not use often.
—Bead & Button