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French-Inspired Jewelry: Creating with Vintage Beads, Buttons & Baubles

French-Inspired Jewelry: Creating with Vintage Beads, Buttons & Baubles
By Kaari Meng

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Celebrated designer Kaari Meng—owner of the Hollywood-based store, French General—invites beaders along to learn all about her distinctive French flea market style. Meng’s projects charm with their vintage flair and feminine beauty, yet all require very little experience to make. Follow Kaari as she digs through her vast personal archives of classic beads and creates unique pieces; along the way she teaches all the basic techniques, from simple wirework to bezel setting, and explains how to build a bead collection, develop a palette, and get exquisite results from easy-to-find reproduction beads. All the chapters are organized by places of inspiration throughout the French countryside, each with its own color scheme and special necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and hair ornaments to craft.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #25353 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-09-01
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and inspriring5
This book is a must have for every jewelry artist . You will spend many hours looking at the pages. It needed to have step by step photos for some of the projects. This is the type of book you want to grow old with.

French-Inspired Jewelry5
The book is laid out in a very artful way and the pictures are beautiful. The projects listed are unique and doable. Great book for ideas and just to look at and enjoy.

so BEAUTIFUL, it hurts5
I don't even make jewelery and this book was filled with inspiration! The photos are GRAND AND GORGEOUS. The styling is just so lovely - really, I don't know what else to say except EYE CANDY GALORE! It gave me a lot of ideas about decorating my home by framing my little bits of this and that...