Stitch Workshop: Peyote Stitch by Editors of Bead & Button magazine (24-Mar-2011) Paperback

by Bead & Button Magazine

This book is the first in our Stitch Workshop series. This book will concentrate solely on peyote stitch, explaining the basics of that stitch in detail and supplying plenty of projects for beaders to practice with. With 28 peyote stitch projects organized from beginner to advanced, this book has a wide audience for those who are just learning the stitch and those who are looking for more project ideas. All of the projects in this book are from Bead&Button magazine.

Genres: Beading, Jewellery

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First published March 1, 2011

Reviews

[Shala Kerrigan · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're looking for a book to extend your skills beyond flat even and odd count peyote, this is a fantastic primer.
The introduction teaches the basic techniques and tell you about the tools, supplies and beads. The illustrations are very clear and understandable with accompanying text that is also well written. Covering how to tie secure knots, how to increase, decrease and join in peyote stitch. It also shows how to create open peyote bezels in specific shapes like square, round and triangle. It's a short and very clear introduction.
Then into the main part of the book. The projects. These go way past plain, flat peyote. The projects all call for easy to find supplies. One of the first projects is an open lacy bracelet that's worked off a base of flat peyote worked in the round. It teaches how to work with components to create a design and the open wheel shapes can be used in other projects easily.
Other designs use different bead sizes to create texture, spirals, waves and shaping.
My favorite design in this book is Laura Cabe's Ropes and Rings bracelet, which uses a variety of peyote techniques to create a bracelet that's very dramatic using rivolis, pearls, cylinder beads and seed beads. Marina Nadke's Lively Links uses increases to make ruffled links to make a lovely chain. Holler for Hoops is a very simple project that makes lovely open teardrop shapes for earrings that are elegant and look ready for the red carpet.
As someone experienced with peyote stitch, I found some great techniques and ideas in this book. They are all well illustrated enough for a beginner to learn.

[Altivo Overo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to one of the simplest methods for construction of three dimensional projects using just cord and seed beads. A beading loom is not required for the peyote stitch method. Explanations are clear and the sample pieces are described in detail. In order to create original work in this technique, an ability to visualize three dimensional structures is essential. However, flat work that resembles the beaded strips created on a beading loom is also possible and can be designed on graph paper as a two dimensional image. Some of the larger example pieces are pretty extreme and gaudy, so that I can't imagine anyone really wearing them.