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	Click Below to Order "Making Wire Jewelry" $15.16 Making Wire Jewelry : 60 Easy Projects in Silver, Copper & Brass	Inexpensive jewelry-gauge wire is readily available in craft shops. With simple pliers, it can be shaped into intricate shapes. This entry-level book provides complete, step-by-step instructions for 60 different pieces of jewelry anyone can make color photos. 300 actual size how-to drawings.
	Click Below To Order "The Book Of Beads" $16.07 Book Of Beads	This stunning volume utilizes glorious color photos to catalog all types of beads (glass, wood, metal, ceramic, natural, semiprecious, plastic, novelty, and collectible), offer design guidelines on planning jewelry (considerations of bead shape, texture, size, weight, and color), and document various practical considerations (findings, equipment, basic how-tos of creating earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and brooches). The section on themes and special occasions, complete with directions for each project, features designs for evening wear, summer styles, holiday looks, weddings, children's items, and African- and Indian-inspired pieces. Even the purely informational and visual spreads (those without actual how-to instructions) offer endless inspiration and ideas for beaded creations.
	Click Below To Order "The Magical Beaded Medicine Bag $9.56 Click Here to Order	The Magical Beaded Medicine Bag Book : Make Your Own Magic (The Beading Books Series)
	Click Below To Order "Beads and Threads" $24.95 Click Here To Order	The..elegant pectoral pieces created by Helen Banes join a long tradition of body embellishment..(She)is a master at meshing disparate materials such as beads, artifacts, threads and coins from diverse cultures into a beautifully integrated new form of expression...Michael W. Monroe,Curator-in-Charge,Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.•On Helen Banes-A course with Ron Goodman in 1969 led to her earliest experiments in fiber art. From the start, she used off-loom techniques and bold colors in surprising combinations to create a sense of motion.Her desire to incorporate beads and other artifacts into her woven pieces led her to her most important innovation-the method of stringing beads on a double warp, using a shaped loom on a lightweight portable board.
	Click Below To Order Creative Bead Jewelry! $15.16 Creative Bead Jewelry	In one of the more irreverent and stylish beading books to appear recently, Taylor begins with five questions, one being, "Are beads affecting your financial security?" Regardless of the answer at the outset, many piggy banks might be smashed after peering at the pictures of these 70 projects from 38 bead artists. Taylor prefers to cover bare-bones information and guidance initially, then she builds up the reader's knowledge and confidence by introducing progressively more difficult tasks, methods, and designs. Included are color photographs of results, black-and-white illustrations of techniques, and materials lists.
	Click Below To Order "The Irresistible Bead" $15.96 The Irresistible Bead : Designing & Creating Exquisite Beadwork Jewelry	An excellent introduction to many aspects of bead craft, The Irresistible Bead thoroughly explains how to design your own jewelry and bring the designs to life using wirework, stringing, card beading, weaving, and polymer-clay techniques. Each of the 20 clearly illustrated projects is fully explained in step-by-step instructions. The chapters for each technique conclude with a helpful "designer's notebook" that is filled with colored diagrams offering several more ideas for exploring the methods. The final chapter showcases elaborate work by nine bead artists, and the seven helpful appendices include charts of bead sizes, diagrams of various findings, a glossary, and three different design graphs that can be photocopied and used over and over for your own designs.
	Click Below To Order "The New Beadwork" $20.97 The New Beadwork	The New Beadwork, states the foreword, is about "transformation and change, about painting, sculpting, weaving, layering, and building with beads." Packed with lovely full-color photographs, the volume presents the exquisite works of nearly 100 supremely talented bead artists. There are pieces of very elaborate jewelry as well as vessels, purses, decorative accessories, wall hangings, and sculptures. You won't find any how-to projects, just dozens and dozens of gorgeous beaded artworks that are a delight to look at and that may serve as a source of inspiration.
	Click Below To Order "Creative Bead Weaving" $15.16 Creative Bead Weaving	The clear illustrations and instructions in this book coupled with the (for the most part) beautiful pictures of beadwork are enough to make anyone dig out those beads you were saving for something special. The book explains peyote, brick-stitch, and several other techniques and provides projects and inspirational pictures as lessons.
	Click Below To Order "The Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork" $11.20 The Complete Guide To Traditional..	A Definitive Study of Authentic Tools, Materials, Techniques, and Styles.A comprehensive reference on native American beadwork features authentic techniques, information on the history and meaning behind designs, patterns, and materials, and step-by-step photographs and drawings of the creation of museum-quality beadwork
	Click Below To Order "The History Of Beads" $15.96 History of Beads	This book carefully traces the travels and roles of beads throughout human history. It is organized mainly by geography, but it also has chapters on special bead types (amber, pearls, eye beads and prayer beads). The photos of historic beads and jewelry are worth the price of admission all by themselves, and can be very inspiring for creative folks. If you create with beads, Dubin's book will show you what the human race has done before you. If you collect beads, you will learn much about the people and places your prizes may have passed through on the way to your hands.
	Click Below To Order "North American Indian Beadwork Patterns" $3.96 "North American..."	North American Indian Beadwork Patterns by Pamela Stanley-Millner
	Click Below to Order " Two-Hour Beaded Projects". $11.96 Click Here To Order	Two-Hour Beaded Projects : More Than 200 Designs by Ann Benson