Product Description

-50+ stunningly beautiful projects for beaders of varying experience

-Full color photos show details of each piece of jewelry

-Trendy craft: beading books rank among today's best sellers in national book chains

This clever and complete guide to beading will have novice and expert beaders hunting for more materials, and freeing up more time to create beautiful jewelry.

Inside this must-have beading resource readers learn:

-Wirework techniques such as bending, hammering, wrapping and coiling

-To make clasps, links, bails, drops and ear wires

-Step-by-step instructions and more than 250 illustrations and photos demonstrating projects for a variety of skill levels

Best of all, beaders create jewelry that's a conversation piece, artwork and unique!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83515 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780873499767
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
J. Marsha Michler is a well-known author of crazy quilting and knitting books, as well as the creator of jewelry designs published in Beadwork magazine. In this new resource Michler lends her exciting and easy style of instruction to first-time and veteran beaders.

Customer Reviews

Refreshing & Fun
I am a wire artist and instructer.I enjoy designing my own patterns and refreshing old ones. I was needing new insperation when I found this book. It really is great for the advanced and beginner. If a beginner starts at easy patterns and works their way up, by the end of the book they will be accomplished wire workers.This is one of the better wire working books I have run across.The directions could be a little more detailed. I will recommend this book to my students.

Disappointing
I put this book on my Christmas wish list, and was very happy to find it under the tree. My excitement soon faded when I saw how lacking in basic instruction it is. The coverage of the basics is okay, and there are some nice looking projects, but, while some of the simpler elements are explained (though not well), the reader is left to figure out other major elements on their own. Drawings are poor and don't relate well to the actual piece -- as if graphic interest was more important than accurately detailing what the element should look like. I found the "WOTWS (Working Off The Wire Supply)" abbreviation used on many of the projects to be silly and slightly annoying. In every case, there was plenty of room to spell out those five words, and if I don't pick this book up for a month or two, I've got to go hunting again (page 12) for the meaning of the acronym. I would recommend Sharilyn Miller's "Bead on a Wire" over this one.

Nice projects but...
If you like books that give you nice step-by-step illustrated instructions that clearly make it easy to follow then this book is not for you. I am an experienced jewelry designer with wirework being my favorite medium. I was terribly disappointed in this book because the instructions are very vague and leave you trying to figure out what you are supposed to do. There is not one real picture to help guide you. There are some drawings but they don't even look like the finished piece.
The projects are nice but the instructions should be more detailed. You definately better practice a few times with cheap wire before you attempt it in silver. You're left hanging and forced to visualize what each step is supposed to look like. The layout is nice and the tutorials at the beginning are great. I use a lot of books to inspire me but I also like learning step-by-step so I give this book 3 stars for wishy-washy instructions and 5 stars for great projects.