Product Description

Just in time for holiday hand-made-gift-making, comes this beautifully illustrated book that shows crafters how to create colorful and unique beaded accessories. Using a single needle and thread, readers will learn a variety of stitches, including herringbone, peyote (also known as gourd), brick, square, right angle weave and African helix, to weave beads into a flat fabric or 3-dimensional object. The off-loom beading technique lends itself to fashioning striking accessories; and in Beadweaving Brilliance, author Kumiko Mizuno offers precise instructions for 30 different projects that will take even a novice beader no more than two hours to complete.
The book is divided into sections covering five different types of accessories - rings, pendants, straps, bracelets and necklaces - and also includes sections on basic techniques, color variations and tools.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #298840 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 82 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9784889962253
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

Well-known in Japan as an expert on bead work, KUMIKO MIZUNO ITO also gives demonstrations and lectures on knitting. She has edited and compiled several textbooks on beading and has written other books in Japanese. Ito has appeared on NHK-TV, Japans public broadcasting network.

Customer Reviews

excellent and impressive
All of the many projects can be made in less than 2 hours. The book combines the best of Japanese and American/English instructions. Rings, pendants, cellphone straps and necklaces but no earrings. Each group is arranged separately first with pictures and explanatory material and then followed by the patterns. Each pattern after giving the supplies needed has the steps written out both in English and with easy to understand pictorial charts showing the actual type of bead used and the direction to bead. There are references from the word instructions to the chart instructions. Back of the book has the techniques including the basic stitches. There is one serious problem though. The beads are all Toho and are given numbers by millimeter and not the way the West is used to; e.g. 11s, 8s, etc. However the beadwork itself is done just as in the west using needle and bead thread. This would be perfect for classroom learning or for someone needing beginner material. The stitches included are peyote both odd and even, tubular peyote odd and even, ladder, brick, herringbone, tubular and circular herringbone, netting, RAW with one needle, square, spiral rope, daisy chain. I haven't made anything yet, but am planning on working through it because I am hopeful it will help me to use my Japanese beading books.

Be aware! Not all projects are contained in the book as shown on cover!
I was excited to buy this book per the other remarks regarding it. I had not seen the book in person and decided it was worth it because I had seen the blue piece with the pearls made up and it was lovely. Anyway, I ordered the book and was soooooo disappointed to see that it is not in the book!! I don't know why this piece was excluded but it's the reason I bought the book! Other than that, it IS well written and more for the beginner beader. I had pre-ordered the second book of this author and title, but have decided to cancel it until I am able to see if all the projects on the cover are contained in the book.

beadweaving brilliance
Pedestrian is a lot better word for this book than brilliant. These are very easy projects that can be found in many other books. Most of the appealing pieces were for reference only, meaning there were no instructions. Also seed bead sizes and thread lengths are given in metric measurements, not six, eleven, fifteen, etc. for seed beads and inches or feet for other measurements. The one bracelet I did make had a mistake in the directions, but the diagrams were accurate and I was able to finish the bracelet. It was a disappointing piece, that I would only be pleased with if it was the first thing I ever made. So once again, I have added to the large collection of bead books I own that got great reviews and turned out to be a major disappoinment. I am cancelling the second brilliance book.