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Marcia DeCoster's Beaded Opulence: Elegant Jewelry Projects with Right Angle Weave (Lark Books Beadweaving Master Class)
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Product Description
The newest addition to the Beadweaving Master Class series features two dozen spectacular jewelry designs from renowned master beading teacher Marcia DeCoster.
DeCoster specializes in the popular right angle weave stitch, and she presents
beadweavers with a comprehensive primer on her beautiful techniques. Eager beaders
will learn how to use the stitch to create fabulous effects—including a supple beaded fabric, beaded ropes, shaped curves, and embellished layers—in stunning, modern jewelry designs. These pieces are nothing less than fine art!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10565 in Books
- Published on: 2009-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 128 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781600592928
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
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Praise for Marcia DeCoster’s Beaded Opulence:
“Twenty-four beautiful bead projects from Marcia DeCoster, one of the very best beading artists and teachers out there, make this book a standout essential. It’s the second title in the Beadweaving Master Class series — the first was the wonderful Diane Fitzgerald’s Shaped Beadwork: Dimensional Jewelry with Peyote Stitch — and Marcia maintains the series’ true excellence for serious beaders. The instructions and illustrations are clear, and the stunning photography reveals the lovely elegance of these spectacular jewelry pieces. This book and its designs will astonish and please you.”
—Best Selling Books
“Marcia DeCoster is one of the smartest, most elegant designers in the bead world today. Not only does she create sumptuous jewelry designs, her projects are deceivingly straightforward and fun to make.”—Jean Campbell, founding editor of Beadwork magazine
“A great book with wonderful projects—these are the pieces that people will want to make to enrich both their right angle weave techniques and their jewelry boxes.”—Carol Wilcox Wells, author of Masters: Beadweaving and The Art & Elegance of Beadweaving
“Marcia DeCoster launches contemporary seed beadweaving into sophisticated high fashion. . . . Follow her well-written instructions for these gorgeous projects, and your work will become the haute couture of beaded jewelry.”—Margie Deeb, author of The Beader’s Guide to Color and The Beader’s Color Palette
“Marcia DeCoster’s Beaded Opulence delivers all that the title promises and more—beautiful, interesting jewelry projects, clear instructions, and true inspiration for beaders.”—Diane Fitzgerald, author of Diane Fitzgerald’s Shaped Beadwork
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Customer Reviews
Beautiful designs!
I pre-ordered this book back in March of this year, and have eagerly been awaiting its publication. I've been fortunate enough to have taken a class with Marcia before and have also completed a few of her kits. Her designs are always beautiful and elegant -- and the projects in this book are no exception.
The book is divided into six chapters: Chapter 1 covers beading basics; Chapter 2 provides a good overview of right-angle weave (RAW) that will benefit both experienced beaders, as well as novices; Chapter 3 covers projects that involve flat beading that resembles fabric; Chapter 4 covers rope-based projects; Chapter 5 covers beaded armatures; Chapter 6 covers embellishments; Chapter 7 covers curved projects; and Chapter 8 covers layered projects. The Appendix also contains a lovely Gallery of RAW projects by other bead artists such as Nan C. Meinhardt, Huib Peterson, etc. that makes for great eye candy.
In total, there are 24 projects to choose from; some of them (like Terracita and Etruscan Treasure) are older designs of Marcia's, but there are also plenty of new designs to choose from. There is also a good range of projects for both beginning beaders (such as earrings and bracelets/anklets) and more advanced ones.
Another nice feature is that the supply list for each project lists the precise colors of the beads being used, which should make it easy to replicate the exact look of each piece. A few of the supplies (like various widths of rubber tubing for the projects that involve armatures, etc.) looked like they might be a bit hard to find, but a quick Google search revealed that they should be easy to track down, and Amazon even carries some of them. This is a definite plus since it's always frustrating to discover that a beading project requires hard-to-find materials.
What I also noticed is that the directions in this book are very thorough and clear. I've had a few problems in the past following along with Marcia's directions, but the directions here are very clear and the diagrams are excellent.
I don't have the first book in this new series by Lark, so I was also pleasantly surprised to see that the book is hardback since hardback books are so much easier to work from while you're beading.
I can't wait to get started on some of these projects!
Amazing, elegant designs from a true beadwork master!
Twenty-four beautiful bead projects from Marcia DeCoster, one of the very best beading artists and teachers out there, make this book a standout essential. It's the second title in the Beadweaving Master Class series -- the first was the wonderful Diane Fitzgerald's Shaped Beadwork: Dimensional Jewelry with Peyote Stitch (Beadweaving Master Class) -- and Marcia maintains the series' true excellence for serious beaders. The instructions and illustrations are clear, and the stunning photography reveals the lovely elegance of these spectacular jewelry pieces. They simply shine.
All the projects are done in right angle weave, and Marcia covers all the needed techniques for this stitch in her Fundamentals section. The complexity of the pieces varies, but there are many serious, challenging designs in this book, as well as straightforward ones for a beginner to try her hand at. Marcia makes pieces using woven beads as ropes, fabrics, armatures, embellishments, and more. This book and its designs will astonish and please you.
Marcia also is one of 36 featured artists in the fabulous gallery book Masters: Beadweaving: Major Works by Leading Artists (Masters (Lark Books)), as is Beadweaving Master Class pioneer Diane Fitzgerald.
This book is a must have for every bead weaver!
We in the beading community have been waiting a long time for a truly inspiring book about Right Angle Weave. Well, the wait is over and may I say that it has truly been worth it. Beaded Opulence is the second in a series of books by Lark and this book is going to be hard to top. Its projects are absolutely awe-inspiring! How is it possible for one artist to comprehensively design from basic to advanced with the end product resulting in a stunning piece of jewelery? It simply boggles the mind!
For you beginning beaders, don't be afraid! Marcia has a whole section devoted to learning the basics of Right Angle Weave and for you advanced beaders, there are many challenging pieces that you will want to make for yourself.
Beaded Opulence is beautifully done with fabulous graphics and incredible photographs. It's eye candy for bead weavers! What a wonderful testimony from Marcia as one of the country's premier Right Angle Weave designers.
Buy your copy soon, if just for the beautiful photos. This book is a guaranteed sell-out.
