Author: Barbara Case Publisher: David & Charles ISBN: 9780715322840 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 100 projects including simply strung bracelets, bold pendants, elaborate necklaces, striking earrings, and other eye-catching accessories, including hatpins, hair-slides, anklets, golf-score counters.
Author: Elizabeth Bigham Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0684867842 Category : Beadwork Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
This uniquely designed book and kit with a detachable plexiglass spine contains nearly 2,000 colorful beads and instructions to make a variety of jewelry items while learning about African culture. 100 illustrations.
Author: Maureen Murray Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited ISBN: 9780713478631 Category : Beads Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Takes a colourful and practical look at the types of beads available, showing the techniques and methods required to make a wide selection of accessories. The projects are presented with drawings and photographs of the finished items. The book also includes the history and folklore of beads.
Author: Donna Goss Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1607651394 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Author: Emi Takamatsu Publisher: Japan Publications Trading ISBN: 9784889961850 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 70
Book Description
A stunning collection of original design featuring Swarovski crystal beads. Includes clear instructions for dozens of contemporary, wearable designs.
Author: Doug MacCash Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807177520 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 157
Book Description
Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman’s trumpet. They are Louisiana’s version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tourists’ and conventioneers’ necks to demonstrate enthusiasm for the city. The first in a new LSU Press series exploring facets of Louisiana’s iconic culture, Mardi Gras Beads delves into the history of this celebrated New Orleans artifact, explaining how Mardi Gras beads came to be in the first place and how they grew to have such an outsize presence in New Orleans celebrations. Beads are a big business based on valuelessness. Approximately 130 shipping containers, each filled with 40,000 pounds of Chinese-made beads and other baubles, arrive at New Orleans’s biggest Mardi Gras throw importer each Carnival season. Beads are an unnatural part of the natural landscape, persistently dangling from the trees along parade routes like Spanish moss. They clutter the doorknobs of the city, sway behind its rearview mirrors, test the load-bearing strength of its attic rafters, and clog its all-important rainwater removal system. Mardi Gras Beads traces the history of these parade trinkets from their origins before World War One through their ascent to the premier parade catchable by the Depression era. Veteran Mardi Gras reporter Doug MacCash explores the manufacture of Mardi Gras beads in places as far-flung as the Sudetenland, India, and Japan, and traces the shift away from glass beads to the modern, disposable plastic versions. Mardi Gras Beads concludes in the era of coronavirus, when parades (and therefore bead throwing) were temporarily suspended because of health concerns, and considers the future of biodegradable Mardi Gras beads in a city ever more threatened by the specter of climate change.
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