Beadweaving on a loom creates beautiful graphic designs as wide or as narrow as you want—and mixed-media artist Sharon Bateman captures the many ways this traditional craft has risen to new creative heights. See how to set up a loom, follow graphed patterns, create edgings and fringes, and even build a simple loom from scratch! The 35 projects include jewelry, chic accessories, home décor items, gift ideas, and more. Every item comes with three to five patterns to choose from—and there are 50 extra bonus patterns, too!

: Elegant Jewelry Projects with Right Angle Weave
Twenty-four beautiful bead projects inside.
The author specializes in the popular right angle weave stitch, and she presents beadweavers with a comprehensive primer on her beautiful techniques. Eager beaders will learn how to use the stitch to create fabulous effects—including a supple beaded fabric, beaded ropes, shaped curves, and embellished layers—in stunning, modern jewelry designs. These pieces are nothing less than fine art!

Explore a world of beads!, with more than 30 dazzling jewelry projects that showcase popular “tribal” and “ethnic” beads. This lavishly illustrated volume offers an introduction to scores of different beads, illustrates all the basic techniques, and presents both beginner and intermediate projects from a pool of talented designers. The one-of-a kind pieces range from Jean Campbell’s jangly Milagros Charm Bracelet to Elizabeth Glass Geltman and Rachel Geltman’s porcelain-beaded “A New Chinese Twist”—with stops in India, Africa, and many other countries along the way.

Knitting takes on a whole new esthetic when coupled with wire to create beautiful pieces of jewelry. The lacy, delicate nature of the projects featured in Knitted Wire Jewelry is unlike those seen in other jewelry making books. You will be surprised by how the fine gauge and simple beauty of the pieces sets them apart. Learn from twenty-five projects that span a variety of techniques such as increases and decreases, incorporating different colors of wire, adding beads and more.

: 20 Jewelry Designs With Cold Join Techniques
This book opens a world of jewelry making to those interested in working with metals but not that eager to pick up a torch.

• A great booklet to help you learn Basic Chain Maille techniques. 110 detailed step-by-step picture instructions, illustrations, explanations, photos, etc.
• Softcover, 31 pages.
• Illustrations in color.
• CHAPTER HEADINGS :
  o Half-Persian 3-in-1
  o Byzantine/Birdcage
  o European 4-in-1
  o Turkish Round
  o Fulle Persian/Foxtail
  
• Lauren Andersen, also known as The ChainMaille Lady, has a passion for Chain Maille. In this booklet, Lauren demonstrates four of the fundamental chain maille weaves. Once perfected, these weaves can be applied to making a variety of Chain Maille jewelry items. To develop your Chain Maille skills further, read Artistic Wire booklet 'Advanced Chain Maille'.

• A great booklet to help you learn Advanced Chain Maille techniques. 123 detailed step-by-step picture instructions, illustrations, explanations, photos, etc.
• Softcover, 39 pages.
• Illustrations in color.
• CHAPTER HEADINGS :
  o Half-Persian 3-in-1
  o Japanese 12-in-2
  o Parallel/Helm's Weave
  o Dragonscale
  
• Take the next step in your chain maille journey and learn how to weave like the experts! Author and chain maille aficionado Lauren Andersen guides you through these advanced techniques, which are recommended after you’ve mastered the Basics of Chain Maille.

An excellent choice for beginners and nice for anyone looking for a refresher on the stitches used in the book. The stitches are spiral, peyote, brick stitch, netted stitch and herrigbone and right angle weave.
The diagrams are easy to follow, even for the novice, the beads selected for each project are fairly common to find in your local bead and craft store, nothing too special or difficult to obtain, and the resultant product is not just fun to learn but also fun to wear.

: Make Beautiful Jewelry While Mastering Six Basic Beading Stitches
In this book, the author shows crafters how to make more colorful and unique beaded pieces using off-loom techniques.
You will learn a variety of stitches that will enable them to weave beads into flat fabric or 3-dimensional objects with a single needle and thread. And even though the finished projects may look complicated, each piece is simple enough for a beginner to complete in only one to two hours.

The first two sections of Beadweaving Brilliance 2 include detailed, step-by-step directions for making rings, necklaces, bracelets, lariattas, earrings, chokers, brooches, eyeglass chains and straps using the different stitches (peyote, spiral rope, daisy chain, herringbone, brick, right angle, etc.). A third section serves as an Inspiration Gallery, in which vibrant full-color photographs showcase masterpieces by the author and other bead artists. The book concludes with a guide to tools and materials, fundamental techniques and a directory of basic stitches.
Enjoyable and satisfying, the projects in Beadweaving Brilliance 2 will let you express their individuality and create gorgeous beaded ornaments for themselves or for special friends, family and loved ones.