20 Easy Boho Chic Designs
Hemp is a natural, organic product with its own special look and feel.
In this book, you can learn how to create beautiful knots to make delicately stitched macrame projects, many of which evoke the beach. Other materials, such as sea glass and beads, are used as lovely enhancements on some of the designs. Fashion a knotted sea glass bracelet, shell cluster necklace, tassel and bead earrings, and more.
Projects included using brick stitch, three-drop peyote, bead weaving, and right-angle weave:
Cleopatra bracelet by Eve Leder
Dancing ballerinas bracelet by Josie Fabre
All-squared-up earrings by Debora Hodoyer
Ruffled regalia bracelet by Mandi Olaniyi
A Complete Guide to Creating Sophisticated Braided Jewelry Incorporating Precious Metals and Stones.
Artful Handmade Wrap Bracelets is an amazing step-by-step guide to make beautiful jewelry for all occasions. Author Di Kim will walk you through tools and materials, basic braids & knots, and fastenings. All you need to make any style of bracelet, whether plain and simple, or glammed-up with precious metals, stones, crystals or glass!
- Over 25 projects for stylish, covetable jewelry that combines informal style with fine materials
- Clear step-by-step instructions on basic braiding and knotting techniques, using a variety of cord materials, from leather and hemp to silk and ribbon
The most comprehensive guide to knotting and braiding techniques with literally hundreds of illustrated techniques from bestselling author and crafter, Dorothy Wood. Choose from 12 step-by-step project ideas to refine your new skills including jewelry, accessories and home decor to create beautiful gifts and home decorations.
Micro macramé may look easy, but without proper guidance, it can end up being much harder than working with the larger knots found in traditional macramé projects. With Micro Macramé, youll get careful instruction as you learn to work with the finer materials that help you create these stunning designs. In the pages of this beautiful book, youll find:
25 projects to make, including a simple beaded friendship bracelet, easy spiral necklace, chevron studded
bracelet,
baroque earrings, owl pendant, and more
Everything you need to get started, including detailed instructions for all the core knots
Something for every macramé enthusiast, ranging from simple knotting projects to advanced patterns combining
threads and beads to stunning effect
Detailed, step-by-step photographs and written instructions to walk you through each and every design
Finished jewelry projects showcased with lovely styled photography
Inside this book youll find featured jewelry projects to advance your skills utilizing different types of leather combined with knotting and bead weaving techniques! Get inspired by eight leather jewelry projects that utilize different beading techniques.
In this issue, discover beautiful designs from the 2018 Designers of the Year: Shanna Steele, Laura Graham, and Melinda Barta. Explore engaging techniques in 12 bead-woven jewelry projects, including kumihimo, loom work, backstitch bead embroidery, and a stitch that mimics bead crochet.
Following her successful Native American Beadwork, Theresa Flores Geary offers up another beautiful collection of traditional beaded projects, all using contemporary tools and materials. The techniques range from simple stringing and Apache Weave to Circular Peyote Stitch. The 19 highlighted jewelry and accessory projects for beginners, along with advanced-level projects. In addition to the patterns and guidance on technique, theres fascinating background information on the myths and legends that inspired each design.
For beading fans, this sensational, inspirational collection is an all-star feast! Every one of the ten bead artists showcasedincluding Jamie Cloud Eakin, Marcia DeCoster, Sherry Serafini, and Rachel Nelson-Smithis a bestselling author and international celebrity in her own right. Together, they've contributed 20 new designs for intermediate-to-advanced projectsincluding beadwoven and bead-embroidered earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry.
Rare book from the publishers of Jill Oxton's Cross Stitch and Beading Magazine.
Expand your creativity with these adaptable and reproducible charted designs suitable for square stitch, loom work and brick stitch.
Make elegant bracelets, boxes, amulet bags and three dimensional items such as the beaded fish, forget-me-not posies, jack in the box while learning different techniques and construction methods and adding your own variations.
Packed with twenty projects, this issue of Beadwork is sure to inspire and impress. With compelling projects using techniques such as cubic right-angle weave and spiral rope, plus seven Fast and Fabulous Holiday Sparkle projects, this issue is one you wont want to miss.
25 quick & easy stitching projects.
Jewelry makers are always on the lookout for quick, easy projects they can create to give as gifts or teach in on-site classes. In Ready, Set, Bead!, popular teacher and designer Jane Danley Cruz offers more than 25+ projects that can all be created in less than four hours, some with variations and alternate colorways.