Quilty
04-29-2005, 02:01 AM
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Title</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Description</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Author</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Beading technique[s]</td>
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<td colspan="3" class="modulecell" align="left">Bateman, Sharon, Findings & Finishing, a Beadwork How-To Book. Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado, USA. 2003.
ISBN 1-931499-40-3, soft cover, 9” x 8˝”, 118 pages.
This is a very good book for those who would like to use beads of all kinds to make jewelry, and while knowing some of the basic beadwork stitches, need advice on how to join their bracelets and necklaces, or attach their brooches and earrings.
An introduction to beads, threads and wires, and the tools to use with them, is followed by the “how to” of working with wire to create one’s own findings and make simple but stunning embellishments for beads. The author assumes no prior knowledge and with very clear diagrams and text both shows and explains how these are done.
A following chapter covers a large range of findings that are available on the market – Head and Eye Pins, Spacing Bars and Connectors, Other Connectors, Terminals, Spacers, Crimps, Clasps, Ear Wires and Pins. Some of these can be made fairly simply oneself, and techniques are shown for doing so together with numerous little projects to show how the techniques may be applied. This is a good section for ideas on what kind of findings to use for a specific project or to give a desired effect, and detailed instruction on how they are used.
The author then goes on to the subject of Finishings – Knotting and Anchoring, Edgings and Fringes, Adding Straps to Beadwork, and Using Findings with Backed beadwork. There is a wealth of information here with excellent instructions for a variety of projects, all with very readable and easily understood text and simple clear diagrams.
Towards the end of the book is a Gallery of some wonderfully inspiring jewelry to tempt the reader, plus a section on Basic Stitches – Brick, Ladder, Flat Peyote, Tubular Peyote, Picot Edgings, Crochet with Beads, Right Angle Weave, Square Stitch, plus odd man out, Wire Spirals.
This is followed by a list of contact details for Suppliers and other resource information.
Sharon Bateman teaches beading workshops, has authored a variety of articles, projects and books, and is the inventor and manufacturer of the “Sharondipity Tube Looms”, something I have yet to find out about!
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Description</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Author</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Bateman, Sharon</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Beading technique[s]</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left"></td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Bead types</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">All</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Skill level</td>
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<td colspan="3" class="modulecell" align="left">Bateman, Sharon, Findings & Finishing, a Beadwork How-To Book. Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado, USA. 2003.
ISBN 1-931499-40-3, soft cover, 9” x 8˝”, 118 pages.
This is a very good book for those who would like to use beads of all kinds to make jewelry, and while knowing some of the basic beadwork stitches, need advice on how to join their bracelets and necklaces, or attach their brooches and earrings.
An introduction to beads, threads and wires, and the tools to use with them, is followed by the “how to” of working with wire to create one’s own findings and make simple but stunning embellishments for beads. The author assumes no prior knowledge and with very clear diagrams and text both shows and explains how these are done.
A following chapter covers a large range of findings that are available on the market – Head and Eye Pins, Spacing Bars and Connectors, Other Connectors, Terminals, Spacers, Crimps, Clasps, Ear Wires and Pins. Some of these can be made fairly simply oneself, and techniques are shown for doing so together with numerous little projects to show how the techniques may be applied. This is a good section for ideas on what kind of findings to use for a specific project or to give a desired effect, and detailed instruction on how they are used.
The author then goes on to the subject of Finishings – Knotting and Anchoring, Edgings and Fringes, Adding Straps to Beadwork, and Using Findings with Backed beadwork. There is a wealth of information here with excellent instructions for a variety of projects, all with very readable and easily understood text and simple clear diagrams.
Towards the end of the book is a Gallery of some wonderfully inspiring jewelry to tempt the reader, plus a section on Basic Stitches – Brick, Ladder, Flat Peyote, Tubular Peyote, Picot Edgings, Crochet with Beads, Right Angle Weave, Square Stitch, plus odd man out, Wire Spirals.
This is followed by a list of contact details for Suppliers and other resource information.
Sharon Bateman teaches beading workshops, has authored a variety of articles, projects and books, and is the inventor and manufacturer of the “Sharondipity Tube Looms”, something I have yet to find out about!
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