Bead Basics 101: All You Need To Know About Beads Stringing, Findings, Tools

by Donna Goss, Andrea Gibson, Suzanne McNeill

A comprehensive beginners guide to making beautiful bead jewelry featuring professional tips and techniques plus more than one hundred easy and stylish projects!

Bead Basics 101 is an all-purpose sourcebook that covers every aspect of beading. A terrific beginner's resource, it explains the materials, tools, and techniques you'll need for making dangles, earrings, bracelets, watches, necklaces, and more. Plus step-by-step photos and clear instructions take the mystery out of the process.

Bead artists Donna Goss and Andrea Gibson welcome readers to this endlessly creative craft as they explain the intricacies of earrings, the wonders of wire, and the dazzle of crystals. Explore the joys of mixing colors, using focal beads to your greatest advantage, creating unique accents, stringing multiple strands with confidence, and more.

Genres: Nonfiction

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Judy Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative

I really enjoyed this book. It was very imfortive and very easy to understand the steps skill to do bead jewelry I like love this book a great source to use as a reference.

[Jai · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice starter book for those interested in beading. Even though I've been beading and designing jewelry for a few years now I still found some very helpful tips and tricks.

[Sonja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good tool and bead type information. Clear photos and good basic instructions. Later in the book, some step instructions aren't clear, which isn't good for a beginner.

[Ligaya · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a short little book, a pamphlet really, that would be good for a true beginner. To go any further one would need a more in-depth reference. Tools, materials, and techniques are all just very lightly touched on.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for beginners and seasoned beaders. Great tips and tricks and original ideas.