Product Description

If you'd like to sparkle and shimmer, get beading now! Covering all aspects of this increasingly popular craft, Complete Beading will inspire you to start stringing, weaving, and stitching with beads straightaway. Features thirty beading projects for all levels of skill, from the beginner to the more experienced beader. Step-by-step photography and clear captions guide the reader through every part of the project, allowing for success every time. These crafts ideas, which include bracelets, earrings, tiaras, and bags, will inspire and challenge anyone interested in beading.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4593779 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

About the Author
Jema Hewitt is a professional costume designer, working on projects for films, theatre and museums such as the V&A, specialising in period clothing and jewellery. Jema's love of vintage beads and embroidery was further indulged when a friend opened a specialist bead shop and offered her a job teaching workshops. She now teaches on a variety of subjects from tiaras to tassels and is a regular contributor to Crafts Beautiful Magazine. She lives on a narrow boat in the Midlands with her husband, two house rabbits and the ships cat.

Customer Reviews

Not much help
When attempting to recreate the garnet cross, the directions made reference to the "illustration" which was simply a photograph and no directions to complete the front of the cross. Unlike other books with Jema Hewitt designs that provide step by step instructions, this book offers very little help. I contacted Jema and asked for the illustration mentioned in the book and was told to "Seek out another crafty person since two heads were better than one". In my opinion, this book is nothing more than several beaders showing just how crafty they are and little to no help in reproducing any of the items. Too bad.