Your One-Stop Source for Beading Know-How Jewelry and beading expert Susan Ray, along with dozens of expert jewelry artists, bring you this complete tutorial for making your own jewelry to fit your personal style. Whether you prefer professional and polished, classic and elegant, or casual and comfortable, you will find the designs and information needed to complete your jewelry pieces using this book. You will also benefit from valuable lessons in: • Bead history • Bead sizing, definitions, weights and charts • Organizing and caring for your beads • Stringing basics • Preparing findings and closures, found objects and vintage findings • Creating beads with metal clay, polymer clay, lampwork and more • Stitching with beads • Selling your jewelry With so much essential information within these pages, Beaded Jewelry the Complete Guide is your one-stop source for everything you need to know about beading.
Your One-Stop Source for Beading Know-How Jewelry and beading expert Susan Ray, along with dozens of expert jewelry artists, bring you this complete tutorial for making your own jewelry to fit your personal style. Whether you prefer professional and polished, classic and elegant, or casual and comfortable, you will find the designs and information needed to complete your jewelry pieces using this book. You will also benefit from valuable lessons in: • Bead history • Bead sizing, definitions, weights and charts • Organizing and caring for your beads • Stringing basics • Preparing findings and closures, found objects and vintage findings • Creating beads with metal clay, polymer clay, lampwork and more • Stitching with beads • Selling your jewelry With so much essential information within these pages, Beaded Jewelry the Complete Guide is your one-stop source for everything you need to know about beading.
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