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Stitch Workshop: Peyote Stitch
by Editors of Bead & Button

Publisher: Kalmbach
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780871164230

The amazing fact that one stitch can lead to so many possibilities is the foundation of the Stitch Workshop series. The lead-off title, Peyote Stitch, illustrates this by delving deep into the popular stitch and then supplying over 25 projects for beginners and advanced bead artists to perfect their techniques. You can create a variety of motifs from zigzags and stripes to floral and ethnic styles.

Price: £11.99

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Endless Sparkle
by Aimee Carpenter

Publisher: CPI
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780871164223

Are you a bead stitcher hungry for more patterns using crystals? Then you will love the 25 projects in Endless Sparkle. This book shows you how to make 12 types of relatively easy and eye-catching crystal components, and showcases the versatility of these components by incorporating them into 15 gorgeous jewelry pieces, including rings, pendants, earrings, and necklaces. Author Aimee Carpenter’s sparkly creations will appeal a wide range of tastes, and her detailed illustrations are easy to follow.

Price: £12.99

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Making Jewelry in Polymer Clay
by Sophie Arzalier

Publisher: Stackpole
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780811706940

Polymer clay is a versatile and easy-to-work-with medium, as this book shows. The thirty jewellery projects in it cover a wide range of styles, from simple, beachy necklaces to ornate baroque pendants to modern rings and bracelets. Detailed instructions are given for techniques such as making canes, using molds and stamps,layering, and blending colors. The projects then combine these techniques into finished pieces in a variety of styles.

Price: £16.99

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100 Beaded Flowers, Trinkets & Charms
by Amanda Hinson

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781844486939

Beads are perfect for making tiny treasures for all sorts of embellishment. This book will show you how to make everything from a tiny tea service, a micro mermaid, and some minute flowers to the sweetest little ladybug. No matter what your level of beading experience, you are sure to find the perfect beaded miniature project in this book. Step-by-step demonstrations, from basic construction to more advanced techniques. Over 100 tiny beaded projects each with an easy-to-follow pattern. After you have created your tiny treasures, the book shows you how to incorporate them into projects including jewellery, accessories and home décor.

This book is currently available at 30% off the RRP of £10.99.

Price: £7.69

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Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance
by Maggie Meister

Publisher: Lark Books
Edition: Hardback

ISBN 13: 9781600596919

This entry in Lark Jewelry & Beading's bestselling Beadweaving Master Class series showcases the amazing work of renowned beader and teacher Maggie Meister. Drawing on patterns and motifs as diverse as classical Roman arts, Middle Eastern textiles, and European architecture, Maggie has created 20 exquisite projects for beaders to make that incorporate a variety of stitches. Her magnificent pieces include wonderfully creative earrings, necklaces, and cuffs, among them a Matriarch's Cuff, which builds on the design of a 17th century Jewish wedding ring; a Sappho Necklace that incorporates designs from ancient mosaics; and a Santa Sofia Pendant that borrows shapes from the onion-dome church steeples found throughout Europe.

Price: £17.99

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Dimensional Bead Embroidery
by Jamie Cloud Eakin

Publisher: Lark Books
Edition: Hardback

ISBN 13: 9781600597961

From popular author Jamie Cloud Eakin comes a fantastic all-around bead-embroidery guidebook. Modeled on Eakin's acclaimed Beading with Cabochons, Dimensional Bead Embroidery shows beaders how to use old stitches in new ways and lays out boundary-breaking techniques for embroidering beads onto a base fabric with beaded bezels. Focusing especially on cabochons and large, eye-catching focal beads, the book covers decorative stitches such as fringes, picots, and rope edging. Nine illustrated projects include bracelets, necklaces, earrings, a brooch, and a purse.

Price: £17.99

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Rachel Nelson-Smith's Bead Riffs
by Rachel Nelson-Smith

Publisher: Lark Books
Edition: Hardback

ISBN 13: 9781600597831

The newest instalment in the top-selling Beadweaving Master Class series features popular jewelry and beading superstar Rachel Nelson-Smith.

Rachel approaches beading like a jazz musician approaches a song: she improvises freely and creatively, playing unexpected variations on basic themes. Here, Rachel reveals her techniques for combining right-angle weave, tubular peyote stitch, and exquisite embellishments.

Rachel's beautiful jazz-inspired pieces for beaders range from the Rondo necklace with repeated patterns to the Five Piece Band stackable ring. There are 23 inventive and fun jewelry projects in the book. “Riff It” sidebars offer suggestions for personalizing each design.

Price: £17.99

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Kumihimo Wire Jewelry
by Giovanna Imperia

Publisher: Potter Craft
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780823085514

For jewellery makers, beaders and wireworkers at all skill levels who want to learn about and explore the creative possibilities of a time-honoured Japanese braiding technique. In Kumihimo Wire Jewelry, jewellery designer and workshop instructor Giovanna Imperia shows jewellery makers how to use the tools and techniques of kumihimo, an ancient Japanese braiding technique, to create beautiful wire jewellery. Features 20 accessible projects.

Price: £16.99

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Tila Beads
by Alice Korach

Publisher: Design Originals
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781574214024

Tile-shaped, two-hole Tila beads by Miyuki add new possibilities to beadwork. The two holes invite asymmetrical design lines, and the shape and size of Tila beads makes them play well with other seed beads already in your stash. The pages of this book are filled with 10 fabulous bracelets, necklaces and keychains... all using Tila Beads. Edited by expert beader Alice Korach, the illustrated instructions are clear, simple and easy to follow.

Price: £12.50

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Sherry Serafini's Sensational Bead Embroidery
by Sherry Serafini

Publisher: Lark Books
Edition: Hardback

ISBN 13: 9781600596728

In this entry in Lark Jewelry & Beading's celebrated Beadweaving Master Class series, one of the world's top bead embroiderers and teachers has produced an accessible guide to her techniques and art for beginners and advanced beaders alike. Sherry Serafini's wonderful pieces have won admirers--including many celebrities--for their lavish beaded surfaces. Serafini explains the fundamentals behind her work, from stitches to color theory, and lays out 25 beautifully textured projects that feature fabulous focal-point beads.

Price: £18.99

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Creating Glamorous Jewelry with Swarovski Elements
by Jean Campbell

Publisher: CPI
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781589235410

Creating Glamorous Jewelry with Swarovski Elements presents a collection of modern reproductions of classic Hollywood glitz, worn by the dazzling starlets of the big screen, including Marlene Dietrich, Katherine Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe. All 20 sparkling jewellery pieces are made with the internationally popular Swarovski products, including the newest items in their line of crystal beads and stones. Detailed instructions and illustrations take you step-by-step through the creation of each piece. Whether dressed up or dressed down, these statement pieces will be fun to wear and become stunning, heirloom-quality additions to your jewellery collection.

Price: £16.99

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Julia Pretl's Big Book of Bead Work
by Julia Pretl

Publisher: CPI
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781589235274

This volume brings together some of the best of Julia Pretl's bead collections. In this compilation of the author’s previous three books, Beaded Collars, Bead Knitted Bags, and Little Bead Boxes, readers learn the author’s original methods for beading miniature vessels, knit purses, and classic neck pieces inspired by the dramatic jewelry worn by the ancient Egyptians. Each of the projects contains a materials list and instructions presented both in written and charted form. The enclosed DVD offers a series of video tutorials in bead knitting, with all the techniques needed for the projects included (for both left- and right-handed knitters!), and full-size printable PDFs of graphs.

Price: £16.99

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Bead Tube Jewelry
by Nancy Zellers

Publisher: Kalmbach
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780871164179

Artist and author Nancy Zellers takes it to the limit with this utterly original bead tube book. Using a simple peyote or brick-stitched tube, the author shows how to create more than 30 projects ranging in style from elegant to funky, and with colors spanning from subtle to brilliant, all from tiny, colorful, easy-to-find seed beads. Readers are able to see how changing colors and designs create new and exciting beaded beads. Also, a range of bracelets, earrings, and necklaces will delight the aspiring artist.

Price: £11.99

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Creative Beading Vol. 5
by Bead & Button Magazine

Publisher: Kalmbach
Edition: Hardback

ISBN 13: 9780871162922

Creative Beading, Vol. 5 from Bead&Button Books. Includes a thorough Basics section and helpful tips for readers, along with scores of great projects from the magazine. Projects are grouped by technique and include a range of stringing, wirework, and bead crochet projects in addition to the multitude of fantastic, editor-tested stitching projects for which Bead&Button is known.

Price: £19.99

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Lacy Wire Jewelry
by Melody MacDuffee

Publisher: Kalmbach
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780871162939

Lacy Wire Jewelry presents a new twist on wirework, with easy techniques for creating the delicate, airy look of filigree wirework without soldering. 30 projects included.

Price: £15.99

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Crystal Jewellery Creations
by Dorothy Wood

Publisher: David & Charles
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780715336335

This title features over 30 fully explained beading patterns that show how to create jewellery from stunning crystals. The crystals shown in the book are the finest quality Swarovski Elements for the ultimate in inspirational sparkle and clarity, but are easily substituted with other brands. Divided into colour themed chapters, the book is a visual feast for beaders - every page is dedicated to both the beauty and creative potential of crystals. Beading techniques and jewellery skills are fully explained for first-timers; experienced crafters will appreciate the jewellery design ideas and the unique use of crystal, beads, and beading supplies.

Price: £14.99

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Beadmaille
by Cindy Thomas Pankopf

Publisher: Lark
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781600594953

Beadmaille offers an entirely unique and beautiful way to craft chain mail–like jewellery, using the simplest of bead-weaving processes to link together metal jump rings in classic patterns. The 25 pieces - bracelets, necklaces and earrings - all showcase seed beads in luscious colours and both handmade and commercial jump rings in gold, sterling silver, copper or bronze.

Price: £14.99

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Netting Panels
by Maddy Kuijper

Publisher: deGraaf
Edition: Paperback

This book will show you how to create symmetric shapes with help of the netting technique. Every piece consists of loose components, which creates a modern look. You can use the components also to make earrings or little bags. The diagrams and photographs will help you to create your own creations.

Price: £9.99

Albion Stitch Book 2
by Heather Kingsley-Heath

Publisher: Heatherworks
Edition: Spiral

Albion Stitch Book two has 20 new designs, plus a gallery to inspire you. Discover how easy it is to create beaded bezels with this simple stitch. Explore geometric and organic three dimensional forms. Learn how to create beaded flowers and leaves, colourful insects like butterflies and beetles; there's even a pattern for a three dimensional bird to flutter through your beadwork. Albion Stitch is easy to master and if you enjoyed book one, you'll love the new designs in book two.

Price: £12.99

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Bead Quilled Jewellery
by Kathy King

Publisher: CPI
Edition: Paperback

Author Kathy King has developed a variation the decorative paper craft of quilling to create unique designs in beadwork. In bead quilling - instead of thin strips of paper - thin strips of beads, made with square stitch, are wrapped to form circles, scrolls, and squares. The holes of the beads, rather than the sides, are exposed, to become part of the distinctive design. The author works with simple and complex combinations of quilled beads to create a variety of jewelry designs. She also incorporates crystals, pearls, and decorative threads into the pieces to add interest and texture.

Price: £12.99

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Micro-Macrame: Beaded Jewellery
by Annika de Groot

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: Paperback

Macramé has reemerged with a gorgeous new twist. Evocative of the Victorian-era macramé lace that decorated fashionable women’s shawls & purses, this accessible new book updates the art of macramé lace with a range of stunning beaded jewelry designs. Beautiful and infinitely versatile, “Micro-Macramé” shows jewelry makers how to capture the allure of this classic craft by combining it with beads to create stunning items that rival the elegance & intricacy of pieces made years ago – but are easy to make and have a modern appeal. Detailed step-by step photographs with complete instructions guide you every step of the way.

Please be aware that this book has been available for a few months in the American Edition titled Micro Macrame 3D Beadwork.

Price: £14.99

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Your Seed Bead Style
by Editors of Bead & Button

Publisher: Kalmbach
Edition: Paperback

Variety is the name of the game in Your Seed Bead Style! The 31 projects in this book show beaders how to incorporate interesting materials into their basic seed bead jewelry. Your Seed Bead Style is organized by material, and features a variety of techniques and stitches including peyote, herringbone, square stitch, bead embroidery, tatting, right-angle weave, and more. Dynamic compilation from the editors of Bead&Button magazine.

Price: £13.99

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Beaded Opulence
by Marcia DeCoster

Publisher Lark Books
Edition Hardback

Beaded Opulence features two dozen spectacular jewelry designs from renowned master beading teacher Marcia DeCoster. Marcia specializes in the popular right angle weave stitch, and she presents beadweavers with a comprehensive primer on her beautiful techniques. Eager beaders will learn how to use the stitch to create fabulous effects—including a supple beaded fabric, beaded ropes, shaped curves, and embellished layers—in stunning, modern jewelry designs.
Price: £16.99

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Straits Chinese Beadwork and Embroidery
by Ho Wing Meng

Straits Times
Edition Hardback

The Straits Chinese were ethnic Chinese who settled along the trade routes between China & India, particularly along the Malacca Strait, Malaysia, Singapore and parts of Indonesia. They brought their own culture with them but soon incorporated ideas and inspiration from the locales in which they settled. Whilst their Porcelain, Silver and Furniture was often made in China and exported to them their textiles were made locally by the Straits Chinese and developed a unique style blending local influences and ideas with traditional Chinese design.
The book is in two sections, the first on Beadwork and the second on Embroidery. It has over 90 full colour illustrations of rare beadwork and embroidery, many from private collections in Singapore and Indonesia.

Price: £18.99

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