Making Beautiful Beads
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If you want bead ideas that go way beyond the usual dots and barrels, this book is packed with fresh projects and cross-material techniques that will jumpstart your next round of lampworked designs.
Item Name:
Making Beautiful Beads
SKU:
BK5
Description:
Making Beautiful Beads is a soft cover instructional book edited by Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott. This project-focused guide teaches beadmaking techniques across multiple materials, including glass, metal, polymer clay, and fiber. It is structured around a range of designer projects and technique demonstrations, moving from simple felt and paper beads into more advanced approaches such as polymer clay beads that emulate stone, patterned metal beads, and lampworked glass bead forms. For lampworkers, this book is useful when you want fresh design direction, surface ideas, and cross-material inspiration that can be translated into new bead shapes, textures, and decorative approaches at the torch.
How it is used:
- Use the multi-material project ideas to develop new bead shapes and surface concepts for lampworked glass
- Reference the lampworked glass introduction when exploring basic glass beadmaking approaches and terminology
- Pull pattern and texture inspiration from the metal and polymer clay sections and translate those motifs into stringer work, sculpting, and surface decoration in glass
- Use the step-by-step project format to plan small production runs of coordinated bead sets for jewelry makers and shows
- Use the variety of styles to break out of repetitive forms and build a broader design vocabulary for contemporary beadmaking
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