Heather Powers

Bead-Making Lab (eBook, ePUB)

52 explorations for crafting beads from polymer clay, plastic, paper, stone, wood, fiber, and wire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fill the year ahead with handcrafted beads that you can make yourself by following tutorials from Bead-Making Lab!

Imagine a year in beads. We're talking 52 handmade varieties all handcrafted by you! Bead-Making Lab makes this bounty of bead making possible with instructions for bead designs that run the gamut from sophisticated to playful.

Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book simple to use. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Choose from traditional materials like paper mache and polymer clay, or opt for new materials such as resins and shrink plastic. Once you've selected your medium, follow the lab instructions for the bead-making technique of your choice. Try a new technique each week! With how-tos including molding, carving, painting, gluing, drilling beach glass and pebbles, and creating fiber-art beads with felting and embroidery, you'll have a year of unique projects ahead of you. Bead-Making Lab also offers ideas on how to turn your beads into jewelry and gives you a sneak peek at some contemporary bead artisans' best work. Get busy beading, crafters!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quarry Books
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631591822
• Artikelnr.: 45105583

Autorenporträt

Heather Powers is a bead maker, jewelry designer, and author. She is a frequent contributor to bead magazines and her popular blog, Art Bead Scene (artbeadscene.blogspot.com) brings her love of handmade beads and art inspiration to jewelry designers around the world. Heather organizes an annual Bead Cruise and teaches at workshops and retreats around the country. She is the author of Bead-Making Lab, Jewelry Designs from Nature, and Beautiful Elements: Creative Components to Personalize Your Jewelry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Bead-Making Tools Unit 1: Clay Clay Basics Polymer Clay Lab 1:
Sgraffito Beads Lab 2: Ombré Beads Lab 3: Faceted Beads Lab 4: Matryoshka
Beads Designer Spotlight: Heather Millican Lab 5: Swirl Disks Lab 6: Woven
Stripes Lab 7: Milkweed Pods Lab 8: Renaissance Relics Lab 9: Rosy Posy
Guest Bead Maker Lab Report: Claire Maunsell Air-Dry Clay Lab 10: Faux Bois
Beads Lab 11: Wildflowers Lab 12: Tiny Houses Lab 13: Blue Birds of
Happiness Lab 14: Golden Owls Unit 2: Paper and Cork Paper Basics
Papier-Mâché Lab 15: Deco Beads Lab 16: Color-Block Pendants Lab 17: Map
Pendants Rolled Paper Beads Lab 18: Paper Saucer Beads Lab 19: Paper
Patchwork Pendants Lab 20: Poetry Beads Layered Paper Beads Lab 21: Faux
Copper Pendants Lab 22: Stacked Beads Recycled Cork Lab 23: Cork Coins
Designer Spotlight: Cat Ivins Unit 3: Plastics Plastic Basics Shrink
Plastic Lab 24: Doodle Charms Lab 25: Vintage Vignette Bracelet Cuffs
Designer Spotlight: Yvonne Irvin-Faus Lab 26: Butterfly Charms Lab 27:
Photo Charms Lab 28: Geo Watercolor Matchsticks Resin Lab 29: Faux Sea
Glass Lab 30: Dazzled Druzy Charms Lab 31: Charmed by Words Lab 32: Glossy
Floral Pendants Guest Bead Maker Lab Report: Jen Cushman Unit 4: Backyard
Natural Basics Beach Glass and Pebbles Lab 33: Drilled Beach Glass
Designer Spotlight: Staci Louise Smith Lab 34: Gilded Pebbles Lab 35:
Message from the Sea Charms Trees and Wood Lab 36: Driftwood Beads Lab 37:
Wood Gems Lab 38: Buoy Beads Lab 39: Acorn Beads Guest Bead Maker Lab
Report: Carol Dekle Foss, Terra Rustica Design Unit 5: Fiber and Textiles
Fiber Basics Felt Lab 40: Wee Felties Lab 41: Strung-Out Felt Beads Lab 42:
Oak Leaf Pendant Lab 43: Folk-Art Beads Fabric and Thread Lab 44: Thread
Riot Flower Beads Lab 45: Rolled Fabric Beads Lab 46: Rope Beads Leather
Lab 47: Blossom Bracelet Cuff Lab 48: Leather Gingko Leaf Pendant Designer
Spotlight: Rebekah Payne Lab 49: Knotted Leather Beads Guest Bead Maker Lab
Report: Gail Crosman Moore Unit 6: Wire Wire Basics Lab 50: Faux Enamel Lab
51: Wire Nest Beads Lab 52: Abacus Pendants
Directory of Artists
Resources Index About the Author