Creative Lampwork

Author: Joan Gordon
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781861088109
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book includes everything you need to know about lampwork, from the history of the craft, to safety and materials, to various bead shapes and decorative techniques. Features clearly laid out instructions, 26 stunning projects in total, and a gallery of examples.

Creative Glass Techniques

Author: Bettina Eberle
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579907648
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Glass is one of the hottest topics in the world of crafts. This handsome how-to book introduces three essential and accessible techniques that have endless creative potential. CREATIVE GLASS TECHNIQUES covers 30 projects, from a simple plate to lampworking to fluted wine glasses, and more. Valuable for novice and experienced glassworkers alike. 160 color photos.

Extraordinary Jobs for Creative People

Author: Alecia T. Devantier
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438111711
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Ever wonder who wrangles the animals during a movie shoot? What it takes to be a brewmaster? How that play-by-play announcer got his job? What it is like to be a secret shopper? The new.

Creative Beading

Author: Editors of Bead&Button Magazine
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 1627000011
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Creative Beading showcases more than 80 wonderful projects and fresh ideas selected from the pages of Bead&Button magazine. From easy strung bracelets to sleek crocheted bead ropes, there’s a project to excite and inspire everyone.

Making Glass Beads

Author: Cindy Jenkins
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579906337
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Table of Contents Making a Basic Bead Preparing Mandrels 27 Igniting the Torch 28 Forming a Bead 30 Extinguishing the Torch 34 Removing Your Bead from the Mandrel 34 Finishing Touches 36 Simple Variations Shaping Your Beads 38 Overwraps 43 Multicolored Beads 44 Spots, Dots & Eyes 45 Stripes & Trails 47 Pulling Stringer 49 Fun with Stringer 53 Raked Patterns 56 Taking the Next Step Mixing Colors 59 Ribbon Cane 60 Twisties 61 Making Your Own Filigrana & Cased Stringer 64 Combing, Feathering, Side-Shifting & Furrowing 68 Pinching, Poking, Snipping & Plunging 71 Adding Metals 74 Inclusions & Surface Treatments 77 Commercial Millefiori 78 Advanced Techniques Making Your Own Millefiori 82 Cased Beads 87 Dichroic Glass 90 Sculpted Beads 91 Hollow Beads 98 Buttons 99 Marbles 101 Core Vessels 102 Appendix A. Jewelry-Making Basics 105 Appendix B. The Nature of Glass 108 Appendix C. Troubleshooting 110 Contributing Artists 111 Acknowledgments 112 Index 112.

Creative Glass Blowing

Author: James E. Hammesfahr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass blowing and working
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description

Passing the Flame

Author: Corina Tettinger
Publisher: Bonzobucks & Books Pub
ISBN: 9780972660204
Category : Glass beads
Languages : da
Pages : 202

Book Description
Inspiration til og trin-for-trin vejledning i at fremstille perler af glas

The Glass Artist's Studio Handbook

Author: Cecilia Cohen
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
ISBN: 1592536972
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
The Glass Artist's Studio Handbook offers readers a comprehensive and accessible guide to not only the nuts and bolts of this perennially popular craft but insight into the artisan crafter's lifestyle.

The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking

Author: Kimberley Adams
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781579905729
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
A guide to the popular craft offers beadmakers instructions for how to torch, wind, and cool beads; directions for creating various designs, including barrels, cones, and discs; and strategies for achieving a variety of colors and patterns.

Creative Chain Mail Jewelry

Author: Editors of Bead&Button Magazine
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 0871167611
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Following the success of Classic Chain Mail Jewelry from Kalmbach comes Creative Chain Mail Jewelry, featuring over 25 chain mail projects from Bead&Button and Art Jewelry magazines. These projects employ a broad assortment of jump rings, traditional techniques and other materials to achieve modern looks. Easy projects focus on opening and closing jump rings, stringing and crimping, while a more advanced project requires soldering. The book is organized from easy to challenging projects for progressive practice for beaders of all skill levels. Keeping jump rings front and center, the book shows how to make a huge variety of designs from classic to contemporary.