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Bracelets, Buttons & Brooches: 20 Projects Using Innovative Beading Techniques
by Jane Davis
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Krause Publications (2007-12-19)
ISBN: 0896895815
EAN: 9780896895812
Dewey Decimal #: 739.27
Binding/Media: Paperback - 128 pages
SKU: 8102009348
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Attendance at the Bead & Button Show, the largest consumer bead show in the world, has grown by more than 400 percent in six years. Book contains various projects for a range of skill levels. Brooches, Buttons & Bracelets teaches you how to use a few basic beadwork techniques to create a beautiful beaded brooch, a button to adorn a favorite jacket, or a stunning bracelet with an attitude all its own. Whether you prefer using existing buttons, or designing your own, this beautiful bead book will help you expand your basic skills, through 200+ step-by-step photos and illustrations of techniques including peyote stitch, brick stitch, ladder stitch and fringe, featured in 20 projects. In addition you'll discover instructions for two types of cabochon beadwork and bead encasing.
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Customer Reviews
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Learning More
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-03-14
Having done some beading on leather, I am delighted with this book. It has very clear directions, illustrations, & the pictures are great! I began beading on leather after buying, "Beading With Cabochons" by Jamie Cloud Eakin. This book, "bracelets, buttons & brooches" by Jane Davis gives me more options & more ideas for my jewelry. I think it would even be a good book to start with, but maybe I shied away from it because I wasn't thinking buttons or brooches. That was my mistake, and I'm very glad I bought it.
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get it NOW!
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-02-10
This is a MUST HAVE book!!! It's sooo inspiring! Easy to follow instructions and beautiful pictures!
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The three B's
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-09-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book was in great condition. All of the girls in my beading group loved it as did I. Thank you very much.
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Fun, fun, fun
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-06-24
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Projects galore. Close up of each piece makes working these projects so much easier.
This book will be one of my "most used reference" for future projects.
I recommend this as a "have to have" in any collection.
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Excellent!
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-01-16
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Those of us who do beadwork often manage to collect odds and ends that we think might work in a piece. I have vintage cabochons, buttons and a lot of found objects which could be incorporated in designs, but I'm not always prepared to drill holes in them or glue them to a finding. Sometimes they cry out for just the right frame, just the right embellishment. And "Bracelets, Buttons & Brooches" is just the right guide to giving your precious little bits and pieces just the right setting.
It's a thorough book with detailed instructions, not just for the projects, but for basic techniques. There are written instructions, clear diagrams and even detailed photos which show you exactly how things should look, how the stitches are done, etc. I must stress, however, that this is not a book for beginners. If you don't already have some experience with beading, particularly working with seed beads, this book may well prove frustrating to you because the projects are fairly sophisticated.
They're also quite beautiful and, seemingly, easily customized. Davis has a good eye for design and a subtle but not unexciting color sense. If you're at all interested in adding seed beads to your jewelry projects or non-jewelry items to your seed-beading projects, this is a great book to consult.
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