Beading Basics

by Carole Rodgers

Discover the basics of beading and beyond! If you've been tempted by the beauty of beaded jewelry and home decorating pieces, but second guessed your abilities to learn the skills needed to create such tantalizing works, fear no more! Beading Basics reveals all that's necessary for creating everything from a simple single-strand necklace to a more intricate netting stitch woven wind bottle covers. You'll discover:    • Essential information for choosing the right beads, supplies and tools, plus tips and techniques for working with wire, weaving on a loom and creating various woven chains.    • Easy-to-follow instructions with more than 175 how-to illustrations and 230 beautiful photographs showing every detail needed to create 40 gorgeous projects.    • An inspirational gallery of designs featuring the works of 11 of today's top beading artists. Beading Basics is the one resource you need to get you on the path to becoming a talented bead artist.

Genres: Beading, Crafts, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

http://www.beadalon.com/Rodgers.asp

Reviews

[Teena in Toronto · Rating 3 out of 5]

I recently found a couple cheap beaded anklets I'd bought about 20 years ago. I'd forgotten all about them so started wearing them again. But the clasps are broken and the strings are stretched so I wanted to repair them and figured I could do it. I decided to put them them on an elastic string to remove the need for the clasps. When I took one apart, I discovered the flowers are done in a daisy chain, rather than being a whole bead. So that started my quest to learn how to do a daisy chain. And that's what brought me to this book.

Plus I think I'd like to work with beads ... nothing fancy or flashy, just fun stuff. Last week, I'd picked up a package of letters and a spool of elastic string and made this bracelet:

The chapters in this book are:

* Getting started - beads and supplies/tools
* Tips and techniques
* Design principles and colour theory
* Projects - there are 40 projects including bracelets, earrings, necklaces, wine rings, lampshades, etc. along with pictures

For the most part, I found the instructions in this book fairly easy and there are lots of how-to illustrations. I think they will make more sense once I actually try them. Some of the projects were too fancy/flashy for me but I got some ideas on some fun things I'd like to try.

The good news, though, is that I now know how to do a daisy chain! Mission accomplished!

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[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a great reference book for beading.Love it!

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've learned a lot from this book and have really enjoyed the projects in it. There are some I have yet to make that are not my style but I plan to change them up a bit to be more to my liking. I like the illustrations, photos and for the most part the instructions were good. When I learning the wire wrapping part I did have to look up a video on Youtube to get it right but otherwise the instructions were good.

[Connie Malia Raquenio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book for beginners.

The book was easy to follow and has great examples and projects for one to make. Also has information to guide one on the tools and supplies to get one started making nice pieces of jewelry. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning the art of jewelry making.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent reference book! As a very amateur beader, I wanted a simple how-to book to help expand my skills. This was perfect. There are easy-to-follow instructions, illustrations, and photos of all projects and techniques.

[Janie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the book
Easy to follow instructions
Will get again

[Fishface · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good, helpful read. Finding the information you want is easy and the illustrations are lovely. My only, tiny quibble is that the author uses "lay" when she means "lie" throughout the text.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this to be helpful and a good resource, complete with illustrations.