Embeadery: Using Classic Embroidery Stitches in Beadwork
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156 pp text and diagrams, 18 color plates
8 1/2" x 11", soft cover, lay flat binding
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All you need to make dazzlingly beautiful works of bead embroidery is a handful of beads, a beading needle, thread, and a firm fabric to apply the beads to. A pencil or, better, an erasable chalk marker, is helpful. And don't forget your sense of adventure!
Bead embroidery doesn't have to be limited to line after line of backstitch producing a surface completely covered with beads. Go wild, work out of the box, cover your surface with glitzy patterns using the stitches taught in this book.
Add rhythm, texture, pattern, and excitement to your work. Play with patterns and forms, seeing what happens when you interpret them rigidly and what happens when you let yourself go with the impulse of the moment. Do something with sequins besides making a bunch of little round sequin dots on fabric. Let the length and directional quality of bugle beads shine beside the roundness of rocailles, set off those perfect pearls or crystals in frames of open chain stitch, enrich your work with the intricate braided forms of beaded chain or herringbone stitch.
Detailed, step by step instructions and diagrams lead you through the creation of each stitch and variation. A beginner can start with any basic stitch and begin beading; an expert beader can follow a wealth of variations and find inspiration to create original stitches.
With bead embroidery we have the freedom to redefine the color and texture of our "thread" each time we string a pinch of beads. Want to make every stitch a different color? Nothing to it - just line up your pots of beads and start sewing. Want to build color variations into the stitch itself, add big sparkly beads to emphasize a focal point or the end of a line, switch from matte to shiny texture and back again, gradually increase the size of beads so that a delicate line builds up to a thick cable? In bead embroidery we can do all that without ever changing the thread. And this freedom means that every embroidery stitch lends itself to endless variations.
Step-by-step projects and examples provide a starting place for those who want concrete instructions and an illustration of how to use Embeadery for those who'd rather start right in applying the stitches and principles to their own projects.
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Embeadery: Using Classic Embroidery Stitches in Beadwork
$29.95
156 pp text and diagrams, 18 color plates
8 1/2" x 11", soft cover, lay flat binding
