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Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux: 58 Original Designs for Making Rings, Necklaces, and Bracelets
Create a boutique’s worth of charming designer gems—simply, quickly, and easily
French fashion maven and muse Nathalie Delhaye has spent years collaborating with top Paris designers, collecting insider secrets from fashion’s favorite ateliers along the way. Now in Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux, she shares some of those secrets, showing readers how to transform a few pennies’ worth of beads into chic, sparkling jewelry.
The book offers 58 projects for creating rings, necklaces, bracelets, and pins from such simple materials as seed beads, glass and plastic beads, buttons, sequins, charms, and found objects. Each project is presented with simple, clear instructions and is accompanied by a list of required materials and full-color, step-by-step illustrations.
Beautiful photographs, extraordinary designs, and concise, easy-to-follow directions make the book a delight to use, and a chapter devoted specifically to materials explains the essential tools and supplies needed for making jewelry.
Bead jewelry fans, jewelry makers, and veteran crafters simply looking for something new will be captivated by the elegance, contemporary style, and simplicity of the original jewelry projects in Beads, Buttons and Bijoux.
Learning how to create your own bead jewelry is simple, and the results are sublime. Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux shows you how to make it today and wear it tonight—without spending lots of time or money.
In Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux, you’ll find:
• 58 clever project designs for making rings, necklaces, pins, and bracelets with everyday materials such as seed beads, glass and plastic beads, buttons, sequins, and found objects
• Full-color illustrations of each step, presented simply and clearly
• A chapter explaining the essential tools and supplies needed for making jewelry
French fashion maven and muse Nathalie Delhaye has spent years collaborating with top Paris designers, collecting insider secrets from fashion’s favorite ateliers along the way. Now in Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux, she shares some of those secrets, showing readers how to transform a few pennies’ worth of beads into chic, sparkling jewelry.
The book offers 58 projects for creating rings, necklaces, bracelets, and pins from such simple materials as seed beads, glass and plastic beads, buttons, sequins, charms, and found objects. Each project is presented with simple, clear instructions and is accompanied by a list of required materials and full-color, step-by-step illustrations.
Beautiful photographs, extraordinary designs, and concise, easy-to-follow directions make the book a delight to use, and a chapter devoted specifically to materials explains the essential tools and supplies needed for making jewelry.
Bead jewelry fans, jewelry makers, and veteran crafters simply looking for something new will be captivated by the elegance, contemporary style, and simplicity of the original jewelry projects in Beads, Buttons and Bijoux.
Learning how to create your own bead jewelry is simple, and the results are sublime. Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux shows you how to make it today and wear it tonight—without spending lots of time or money.
In Beads, Buttons, and Bijoux, you’ll find:
• 58 clever project designs for making rings, necklaces, pins, and bracelets with everyday materials such as seed beads, glass and plastic beads, buttons, sequins, and found objects
• Full-color illustrations of each step, presented simply and clearly
• A chapter explaining the essential tools and supplies needed for making jewelry
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144 pages, Paperback
First published August 29, 2006
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August 27, 2011
Okay, I really try to be honest and represent the 'beadweaver' in my reviews. So .... Let me just say I USED to think there was no such thing as a bad beading book. I got this book for $1 and was still disappointed. Indifferent
This book features 58 original designs and out of those 58 there are 5 worth looking and those are similar to stuff you could find elsewhere easily. Designs are things like buttons on a long string as a necklace, and other oddities. And while I am all for using buttons and various things within a design, the designs in this book simply lack sophistication reminding me of elementary school projects. All that is missing is the macaroni necklace.
Several of the pieces look very uncomfortable to wear and would catch on everything with odd bits of various things sticking out in random directions.. Many of the pictures display poor workmanship with a wire beaded necklace that has black wire showing between the beads in multiple places, etc. The photography is well done.
There are a few ideas I got from this book, but in the end, I intend to give it to some children because I do not think it would be used enough to be worth the space on my small beading book shelf and they may like making crazy button rings!
Sorry to be harsh .. but .. well you will just have to peruse the book!!
This book features 58 original designs and out of those 58 there are 5 worth looking and those are similar to stuff you could find elsewhere easily. Designs are things like buttons on a long string as a necklace, and other oddities. And while I am all for using buttons and various things within a design, the designs in this book simply lack sophistication reminding me of elementary school projects. All that is missing is the macaroni necklace.
Several of the pieces look very uncomfortable to wear and would catch on everything with odd bits of various things sticking out in random directions.. Many of the pictures display poor workmanship with a wire beaded necklace that has black wire showing between the beads in multiple places, etc. The photography is well done.
There are a few ideas I got from this book, but in the end, I intend to give it to some children because I do not think it would be used enough to be worth the space on my small beading book shelf and they may like making crazy button rings!
Sorry to be harsh .. but .. well you will just have to peruse the book!!
June 5, 2013
I'm embarassed for the author of this book. It's childishly simple projects with mediocre instructions, and gorgeous photography. The photography alone earned the second star :) I'm very glad I just borrowed this from the library. It's worth flipping through for inspiration, but not worth keeping.
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