Making Beautiful Beads: Glass, Metal, Polymer Clay, Fiber

by Suzanne J.E. Tourtillott

Work wool magic by rolling it into hard balls, or adding metallic fiber. Coil polymer clay for a real impact. You’ll find that the simplest techniques yield incredibly lovely, one of a kind “jewels.” “Public libraries...will find this potpourri of projects a distinctive addition to crafts collections.”— Library Journal.

Genres: Jewellery, Art, Reference

128 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2002

About the author

Suzanne Tourtillott was born in post-war Germany but lives and works, happily, in Asheville, North Carolina. After studying and then teaching fine art and commercial photography, she turned to writing arts journalism for periodicals and, ultimately, to writing and editing craft books. Suzanne has edited more than 50 titles in jewelry, ceramics, needle crafts--even poetry. Her business/Twitter is @editorious; see the site at http://editorious.org and tweets via #editorious. you can follow Suzanne's visual interests on Pinterest (pinning as username suzanne33).

Reviews

[Ligaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm reading this book almost 25 years after publication and it is still very relevant. The author shows so many techniques to expand your beading repertoire, and all of them are accessible to even the beginning crafter. Photos are plentiful. The projects are varied. The Gallery sections are very inspirational.