Bead-making lab
Subtitle: 52 explorations for crafting beads from polymer clay, plastic, paper, stone, wood, fiber, and wire
By: Heather Powers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781631591143
Subjects: Beads; Beadwork
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Clay; title: Paper and cork; title: Plastics; title: Backyard; title: Fiber and textiles; title: Wire.