Download or read book Beadazzled the Story of Beads written by Chris Filstrup and published by Warne. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the use of beads throughout history as currency, ornaments, documents, and as aids in meditation and mathematics. Also suggests beadwork projects.
Download or read book Beadazzled written by Penelope Diamanti and published by 1st Impression Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume gathers 70 of the top designers in the exciting field of beaded jewelry. Seven chapters organize the work by materials, cultural influences, and construction. The Gemstone chapter features magnificent jewelry made of semi-precious stone beads, while shedding light on the wealth of symbolism they convey. The Africa and Asia chapters portray the vibrant and diverse influences of the jewelry traditions of East and West Africa, China, Tibet, Nepal, India, and Central Asia. Nature highlights the freshness and appeal of jewelry created with organic materials: wood, seeds, bone, horn, shells, coral, pearls, and more. Fiber and Metal explore new twists in texture and structure demonstrating that beaded jewelry, while drawing on tradition, is passionately alive. The Contempo chapter serves up a visual feast of designs created with Contemporary American Art Glass, space-age dichroic glass, and an ecclectic mix of found objects. Once prized for their ethnographic and historical interest, today beads and beaded jewelry are also recognized as important art forms. This essential survey of the bead renaissance of the late 20th and early 21st centuries will delight artists, designers, collectors, and historian interested in beads and/or personal adornment.
Download or read book Beaded Jewelry The Complete Guide written by Susan Ray and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your One-Stop Source for Beading Know-How Jewelry and beading expert Susan Ray, along with dozens of expert jewelry artists, bring you this complete tutorial for making your own jewelry to fit your personal style. Whether you prefer professional and polished, classic and elegant, or casual and comfortable, you will find the designs and information needed to complete your jewelry pieces using this book. You will also benefit from valuable lessons in: • Bead history • Bead sizing, definitions, weights and charts • Organizing and caring for your beads • Stringing basics • Preparing findings and closures, found objects and vintage findings • Creating beads with metal clay, polymer clay, lampwork and more • Stitching with beads • Selling your jewelry With so much essential information within these pages, Beaded Jewelry the Complete Guide is your one-stop source for everything you need to know about beading.
Download or read book Great Legs written by Jane Merrill and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merrill's Great Legs! shares that wealth of leg care and fitness knowledge. The book covers everything from traditional and home treatments to once-proprietary spa secrets and high-tech leg care techniques. The author delivers this gold mine of "limb-formation" in a fun and easy-to-grasp style, as one girlfriend passing on beauty tips to another. A healthy combination of quotations, photographs, fun facts, and hip shopping tips makes Great Legs! a must-read for all women. Great Legs! includes home methods of hair removal, self-tanning and blemish-disguising tips, leg-pampering recipes, leg and feet exercises, dos and don'ts of cosmetic surgeries, and much more. Merrill taps a team of exercise and medical professionals, such as the chief of surgery at Tufts/New England Medical Center, to back up her information. This book struts!
Download or read book Baubles Buttons and Beads written by Sibylle Jargstorf and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 500 years, the world's greatest makers of costume jewelry have hidden, anonymous, in the heart of Europe: Gablonz, Bohemia. This groundbreaking, beautiful book exposes the jewels, craftsmanship, technological development, and history of Bohemia. Almost 400 gorgeous color photographs illustrate the area's artistry, its most significant designers and manufacturers and their contributions to the art of jewelry, button, and bead making. Bohemian glass dynasties lasted for centuries, until the middle of the 20th century, when the entire community of German-stock craftsmen was expelled from the area in the turbulence of World War II. Though Gablonz will forever feel the loss of these great craftsmen, their artistry has been meticulously researched and documented by Sibylle Jargstorf for this book.
Download or read book The Wedding Night written by Jane Merrill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night—its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages. Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between the sheets." Covering a kaleidoscopic array of cultural expressions, this unique study zooms in on what's quintessential and shares insights into the history of intimacy through the ages. The book traces the formalization of the wedding night in the ancient Near East and classical world, provides many examples of historically significant unions in European and American history, and describes the lively variety of traditions leading up to the present. Spicing their narrative with many piquant quotes from contemporary sources, the authors explore the rich cultural context for the wedding night—processions, royal rituals, apparel, food-related traditions, and pranks—throughout Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Separate chapters examine sex guides, jokes, and the bed as a special conjugal space.
Download or read book Sacred Stones of the Goddess written by Galen Gillotte and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make everyday magic come alive with the beautiful prose and invocations found in Sacred Stones of the Goddess. This one-of-a-kind guidebook incorporates crystals and semiprecious stones in talismanic magic, combined with guided meditations and prayers to the Goddess. This book includes thirty-five Goddess-centered invocations for a variety of purposes, step-by-step instructions for putting together and using your own thirteen-stone divination set, and instructions for creating and using your own set of Wiccan prayer beads.
Download or read book Ornaments from the Past Bead Studies After Beck written by Ian C. Glover and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not Just for Show written by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical procedures that highlight humankind’s technological advances, exchange networks, mortuary practices, and symbol-laden beliefs. Papers discuss the social narratives behind bead and beadwork manufacture, use and disposal; the way beads work visually, audibly and even tactilely to cue wearers and audience to their social message(s). Understanding the entangled social and technical aspects of beads require a broad spectrum of technical and methodological approaches including the identification of the sources for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are also combined in some instances with experimentation to clarify the manner in which beads were produced and used in past societies.
Download or read book The Allen Book of Beads written by Allen's Boston Bead Store, Boston, MA, USA. and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geometric Beadwork written by Jean Power and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you enjoyed the book Geometric Beadwork then this second volume in the series is the perfect next step. This book contains over 25 brand new projects covering all aspects of geometric beading as well as 3 of Jean Power's Designer of the Year projects (plus brand new variations on them!) This 128 page book is crammed full of geometric beadwork, techniques and projects to delight and inspire. Featuring over 300 diagrams and photos, and with bracelets, necklaces, chains, brooches, pendants and more there is something for everyone. The book begins with the basics of geometric beadwork before moving onto design & inspiration considerations then then separating into 4 different chapters: Triangles, Squares, and 'The Maths'. In addition to full page photos, so you can see all the detail, every project has: The quantity, size (and where relevant the colour number) of beads you will need The techniques needed (every technique needed is shown in detail at the start of the book or relevant chapter) Detailed step-by-step instruction using a mix of text, diagrams and photos A favourite feature: 'In a nutshell'. This distils each project down to its essential steps meaning you can read that and dive right in if you're more experienced
Download or read book AB Bookman s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wire Jewelry Workshop written by Susan Ray and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Great variety of techniques gathered by an impressive panel of beading experts • Provides detailed instructions to put to use, and then post on beading blogs for others to learn from Beading basics never go out of style, because like many beaders, you are always looking for ways to efficiently and creatively design projects. This must-have guide covers essential skills including chain maille, cutting wire, making P loops, bending wire, making eye loops, jump rings, and using a wrapped bead link technique. Among the 20+ projects featured in the book, you will discover instructions for earrings, chokers, necklaces, pendants and more, all designed by the author and other respected jewelry artists.
Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beads of St Catherines Island written by Elliot Blair and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
