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Glass bead jewellery is a fun and accessible way to make personal jewellery and unique gifts for special occasions. This beautifully designed book is a definitive, one-stop resource for crafters of all levels of ability for making stunning glass bead jewellery. The initial chapters provide readers with a complete guide to setting up an inexpensive studio or workspace, the tools and materials required and the techniques for producing glass beads and for jewellery making. The subsequent chapters contain concise, fully illustrated step-by-step projects. There are 15 unique glass bead designs and 15 striking jewellery pieces to make. The projects are grouped into three chapters, beginners, intermediate and advanced, so that readers can progressively build their skills and confidence.
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Nelli Rees was born in Moscow, Russia. She sells her handmade glass beads and sterling silver jewellery from her website (www.beadmonamour.co.uk), Ebay and Etsy.com, plus at a number of fairs. Nelli has always had an interest in jewellery making and for the last two years has devoted her time to glass bead making and jewellery design. She has attended a number of courses on glass bead making, silver smithing and jewellery making.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a beautiful book, and very good value, sold at a huge discount from the cover price. It is one of the few lampwork books published in the UK, so that you can be reasonably sure that the materials recommended are readily available.
What I particularly liked was that the author is not only giving us detailed instructions on some stunning projects, but from her own experience tells of the expensive mistakes and pitfalls to be avoided.
As another reviewer says, it isn't difficult to find a lampworking book that tells you the basics of making a bead, the tools needed and how to set them up. Where this book really scores, is that the author goes on to illustrate the book with her own extremely beautiful beads, with instruction on not only how to make them, with detailed step by step illustrations, but follows this with inspiring ideas on how to make each particular type of bead into a piece of stunning jewellery.
She begins by telling us exactly what type and quantity of glass to use for the bead: 'if you want your bead to look exactly like mine you will need:', and follows this with the same information on the materials and tools needed to make the jewellery. Experienced beadmakers might not need this, but it is very helpful to a near beginner.
Projects are graded into 'beginners', intermediate' and 'advanced' level, and although I think that it would certainly take a good deal practice to obtain the results in the book, even to a near beginner like myself they do actually look achieveable. There are a few exceptions to this towards the end of the book which look much more difficult, but they are in the 'advanced' section and could be worked toward. However, even the beads in the 'beginners' section are stunningly beautiful and not just padding for the book.
This is also a great book for furthering your own ideas and designs if you are past the stage of needing step by step instructions. Change a colour here, transfer a technique there, and you can use the beads shown in the book as templates for you own unique beads and jewellery.
Many other lampworking books show beads made by other artists - beautiful to look at, but often one is left frustrated and wondering, 'how did they DO that?'. This book shows the author's work exclusively, and I don't think it suffers from doing that, as the work is of a very high standard. It reads like a series of excellent and detailed personal tutorials, written in an accessible and friendly way.
One more thing that I particularly liked - and this is only a very personal opinion - there is not a sign of any glass animal beads, distorted faces, vessels, cottages, gnomes, cartoon characters, baskets of flowers, or any other type of hideously naff, (albeit technically skilful), creations so beloved by authors of certain other lampworking books.
If you want ideas and inspiration, with detailed instructions for making beautiful beads and jewellery, with this book you just can't lose.
What I particularly liked was that the author is not only giving us detailed instructions on some stunning projects, but from her own experience tells of the expensive mistakes and pitfalls to be avoided.
As another reviewer says, it isn't difficult to find a lampworking book that tells you the basics of making a bead, the tools needed and how to set them up. Where this book really scores, is that the author goes on to illustrate the book with her own extremely beautiful beads, with instruction on not only how to make them, with detailed step by step illustrations, but follows this with inspiring ideas on how to make each particular type of bead into a piece of stunning jewellery.
She begins by telling us exactly what type and quantity of glass to use for the bead: 'if you want your bead to look exactly like mine you will need:', and follows this with the same information on the materials and tools needed to make the jewellery. Experienced beadmakers might not need this, but it is very helpful to a near beginner.
Projects are graded into 'beginners', intermediate' and 'advanced' level, and although I think that it would certainly take a good deal practice to obtain the results in the book, even to a near beginner like myself they do actually look achieveable. There are a few exceptions to this towards the end of the book which look much more difficult, but they are in the 'advanced' section and could be worked toward. However, even the beads in the 'beginners' section are stunningly beautiful and not just padding for the book.
This is also a great book for furthering your own ideas and designs if you are past the stage of needing step by step instructions. Change a colour here, transfer a technique there, and you can use the beads shown in the book as templates for you own unique beads and jewellery.
Many other lampworking books show beads made by other artists - beautiful to look at, but often one is left frustrated and wondering, 'how did they DO that?'. This book shows the author's work exclusively, and I don't think it suffers from doing that, as the work is of a very high standard. It reads like a series of excellent and detailed personal tutorials, written in an accessible and friendly way.
One more thing that I particularly liked - and this is only a very personal opinion - there is not a sign of any glass animal beads, distorted faces, vessels, cottages, gnomes, cartoon characters, baskets of flowers, or any other type of hideously naff, (albeit technically skilful), creations so beloved by authors of certain other lampworking books.
If you want ideas and inspiration, with detailed instructions for making beautiful beads and jewellery, with this book you just can't lose.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The thing about lampworking is that there aren't that many books about it that don't have all the basics of how to make a round bead, a tube bead and so on. This was a greta book for the lampworker who already knows a little bit about lampworking and is keen to make some more complex beads. The price means that it's great value for money compared to tutorials that can be bought from bead artists.
Each style of bead is demonstrated with plenty of pictures and then in the second section of the book is shouwn how to incorporate it or them into a lovely piece of jewellery.
Highly recommend.
Each style of bead is demonstrated with plenty of pictures and then in the second section of the book is shouwn how to incorporate it or them into a lovely piece of jewellery.
Highly recommend.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a fantastic book, showing you, how to make lampwork beads and how to make them into amazing jewellery.
I first borrowed this book from the Library, but I decided, I really wanted my own copy.
It is the best book on lampwork beads, I have come across.[[ASIN:1861088159 Glass Bead Jewelry Projects]
Well worth the money!
I first borrowed this book from the Library, but I decided, I really wanted my own copy.
It is the best book on lampwork beads, I have come across.[[ASIN:1861088159 Glass Bead Jewelry Projects]
Well worth the money!
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A great book for making lampwork beads
This is another great book for either a complete beginner or a more advanced lampworker. The pictures are beautiful and there are step by step instructions on how to make each... Read more
Published 11 months ago by daroem
Buy it!
I make glassbeads for 5 years now and I enjoyed the book very much. Clear pictures, clear explanation and even she tells you what kind of jewelry you can make with the bead. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Margriet
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