Beading Design with Semi-Precious Stones: With Semi-Precious Stones, Glass, Pearls and More - Brossura

Gover, Kim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 071533011X ISBN 13: 9780715330111

Casa editrice: David & Charles, 2009

Riassunto

discover how to craft beautiful handmade jewellery using a variety of beads - from seed beads to glass beads, pearl to semi-precious stones, including quartz, turquoise, lapis lazuli, amber, amethyst and coral. It features all the essential techniques needed to transform beautiful beads and stones into stunning accessories. In this work, get advice on choosing just the right number and size of stones to guarantee a harmoniously proportioned piece, and be inspired to create your own unique combinations, learning how to pick colours that compliment each other, which order to string them, and how to combine them with fastenings, knots, spacer beads, sterling silver crimp beads, or wire twists. Packed with over 100 examples from international bead artists, each project is deconstructed so readers can see the exact type and quantity of bead that goes into it, and recreate it for themselves.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Anita Seebourg is a beading and jewellery-making teacher and has written successfully on the subject, including as a contributior to The Beader's Color-Mixing Directory (Krause Publications).

Contenuti:

Introduction
About this book
Materials and tools
Buying gemstones

1 THE STONES:
Jet
Black onyx
Blackstone
Lava stone
Labradorite
Hematite
Moonstone
Quartz
Jade
White Agate
Opal
Mother-of-pearl
Pearls
Rose quartz
Pink opal
Rhodochrosite
Pink coral
Fire agate
Red coral
Red sponge coral
Red goldstone
Carnelian
Red garnet
Amber
Smoky quartz
Bronzite
Tiger's eye
Chrysoberyl
Picture jasper
Rhyolite
Aragonite
Citrine and ametrine
Yellow turquoise
Unakite
Ocean jasper
Bloodstone
Zoisite
Chrysocolla
Kambaba jasper
Aventurine
Green aventurine
Malachite
Chrysoprase
Peridot
Serpentine
Aquamarine
Apatite
Larimar
Amazonite
Blue opal
Natural and African turquoise
Howlite
Kyanite
Azurite
Blue tiger's eye
Blue goldstone
Dumortierite
Sodalite
Blue coral
Lapis lazuli
Amethyst
Iolite
Tanzanite
Charoite
Lepidolite
Blue lace agate
Rhodonite
Tourmaline
Fluorite
Moss agate
Snowflake obsidian
Pyrite

2 THE DIRECTORY:
Project selector
Necklaces
Bracelets
Earrings
Matching sets
Other accessories

3 CORE TECHNIQUES:
Simple wire loops
Closed wire loops
Using head pins and eye pins
Double hook and eye
Wrapping individual beads
Wire on wire wrapping
Coils
Zigzag spacers
Knotting onto a clasp
Calottes
Crimping
Threading variations
Double-strand threading

Resources
Index
Credits

Su questa edizione

• Editore: David & Charles
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 071533011X
• ISBN 13: 9780715330111
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128