Download or read book Fearless Beadwork written by Joyce Scott and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott is an African American artist, born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She often addresses subjects in her art such as politics and popular culture. The singular element that she is most well known for is her work with beads and beading that she uses in sculptural work, and jewelry. She has successfully bridged the craft-fine art divide with many of her works. Fearless Beadwork is a beading how-to handbook, and comic book where the artist is the superhero. Many contemporary beading practitioners found this beading tutorial approachable in both style and content. There is even a glossary of terms near the end of the book"-- Thomas J. Watson Library instagram account (July 1, 2020).
Download or read book Mastering Beadwork written by Carol Huber Cypher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a new beader seeking solid beading foundations? Or are you an experienced beadworker wanting to refine your skills? Mastering Beadwork is your ultimate resource for beading knowledge-it's a project book plus reference tool wrapped up in one. Based on years of teaching experience, Carol Cypher presents easy-to-understand instructions with informative sidebars to help anyone master beading techniques. Each of the 13 techniques are explained in detail, then further explored with projects to enhance the beader's skills and confidence. The 63 projects included here-ranging from bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings to findings, closures, beaded beads, and other beaded objects-teach a single project or technique but are arranged to build skills at any level. You'll also find suggestions for personalizing and expanding on each project or pattern. Learn all the basic beading stitches-from peyote, spiral, vertical and horizontal netting, bead crochet, right-angle weave, triangle weave, daisy chain, ladder stitch, ndebele, brick stitch, African helix, and more. Mastering Beadwork is a classroom in a book, an all-in-one reference guide, and a compendium of beading techniques. It will supplement what you've already learned in beading classes, set you on the first steps to beading confidence, and infuse your work with inspiration.
Download or read book Beading The Creative Spirit written by Rev. Wendy Ellsworth and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find Your Creative Self in the Kaleidoscope of Beads & Color "Beading and my spiritual path are intricately interwoven. It would be difficult for me to separate the two because they are so completely intertwined with one another. As I sit and weave with my beads, I allow the Creative Spirit to flow through me, and though my hands are doing the work, another force is actively participating in the process. This force is a transmission of Spirit that fills me with deep inner peace and joy as I bead. As a result, the practice of my art form has become a creative path to my sacred center." —from the Introduction Believing that beading is a form of meditation through which we can access the Creative Spirit that is always present in us, master bead artist Rev. Wendy Ellsworth offers multiple ways to explore beading as a spiritual journey of self-discovery. Each of the seven chapters is rich with personal stories, exercises, and beading projects, and each project has a meditative experience to encourage a contemplative spirit and creative play. The project results are beautiful, meaningful symbols designed by a master bead artist for both novice and experienced beaders alike. Original projects include: • Geometric Mandala • Personal Mandala • Personal Prayer Beads • Beaded Prayer Pouch • Goddess Archetype Necklace • Beaded Stick Figure Goddess • Chakra Necklace • Chakra Flower Sculpture • Free-form Gourd Stitch Bracelet • Ruffled Cabochon Brooch • Dutch Spiral Necklace • Spiral Vessel • Song Beads • Herringbone Stitch Cuff with Freshwater Pearls
Download or read book Beautiful Beadwork from Nature written by Melissa Shippee and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 gorgeous beaded jewelry projects for intermediate-to-advanced beaders, featuring one-of-a-kind, nature-inspired designs. “The elaborate process of creating tiny beaded works of art has never been so well-captured.” —Booklist (Starred review) Drawing from the shapes, colors, and beauty of the natural world, award-winning jewelry designer Melissa Shippee has fashioned a breathtaking collection of wearable art. From delicate earrings made of graceful beaded flowers to a showstopping crystal fringe necklace inspired by ancient stalactites, each striking project uses popular materials such as seed beads, crystals, and Czech glass beads. Along with illustrated step-by-step instructions, a basics section provides a refresher on essential beadweaving techniques. A gallery of works from top artists offers additional inspiration.
Download or read book Joyce J Scott written by Joyce Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This essential retrospective of genre-defying artist and MacArthur Fellow Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948) showcases her expansive and versatile career. From early textiles and wearables, to performances and public artworks, to celebrated beaded sculptures and signature necklaces, her innovative oeuvre centers on the ancient, global technologies of needle and thread, beadwork, salvage, song, and storytelling. Interviews with Scott and essays from an extraordinary group of artists and scholars explore this dynamic practice, rooted in place, community, and intergenerational knowledge. Extensive new photography and rich archival images reveal a dazzling, provocative body of work that makes difficult subjects intimately felt, confronting racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and histories of trauma through wearable art and exquisite sculpture. With humor and pathos, Scott twists menacing stereotypes into grotesque and tender retorts that spur conversation and reflection, grief and laughter, learning and healing."--Back cover.
Download or read book Mammy written by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure
Download or read book The Fearless Shopper written by Kathy Borrus and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrus, a former buyer for the Smithsonian Institution Museum Shops andurrently a specialty retail marketing consultant, prepares readers to taken the world, literally, with tips, wisdom, and anecdotes on everything fromack alley bargaining to cybershopping. She gives advice on shopping like a
Download or read book Beadwork Creates Bracelets written by Jean Campbell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginners and seasoned beadworkers alike will be thrilled to discover the 30 fun and stylish bracelets in this creative guide to beading jewelry. Clear, logical directions and easy-to-follow illustrations accompany each project, from simple bead stringing and wire working to more complex macrame, crochet, and off-loom weaving techniques. The flexible binding allows the book to lie flat while beaders work on hand-busying projects.
Download or read book Choosing Craft written by Vicki Halper and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft--inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper and Douglas mined a wide variety of sources for their material, including artists' published writings, letters, journal entries, exhibition statements, lecture notes, and oral histories. The detailed record they amassed reveals craft's dynamic relationships with painting, sculpture, design, industry, folk and ethnic traditions, hobby craft, and political and social movements. Collectively, these reflections form a social history of craft. Choosing Craft ultimately offers artists' writings and recollections as vital and vivid data that deserve widespread study as a primary resource for those interested in the American art form.
Download or read book The Art of Beaded Beads written by Jean Campbell and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaders everywhere are discovering the extraordinary creative potential and pleasure of making unique, one-of-a-kind beads from existing beads themselves. This lushly illustrated guide. now in a paperback version, offers them a blast of inspiration, with 40 fabulous designs from today?s finest beadwork artists. Ranging from understated to pure dazzling glam, these projects showcase a range of innovative techniques. Among the standouts: a peyote-stitched Tetrahedron Beaded Bead; a Peek-A-Boo Bead, using steel nuts from the hardware store; and a cylinder-shaped Pi?ata Bead, decorated with smaller beads resembling tiny, colorful party balloons.
Download or read book Beadwork Creates Earrings written by Jean Campbell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enticing spectrum of designs--simple drops with sparkling vintage beads, flashy fringe inspired by the 1970s, free-form doodles, tasteful tassels, and delicate crosses made with Russian techniques--are featured in the projects included in this guide that focuses solely on the creation of earrings. Using a variety of popular beads, a potpourri of beading methods such as basic stringing, edging variations, netting, peyote stitch, right-angle weave, and wirework, and clear illustrations, this how-to shows beginners and those with more advanced skills how to simply and quickly create an assortment of drop, hoop, and chandelier earrings.
Download or read book Beadwork Creates Necklaces written by Jean Campbell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaders and jewelry-makers will love the 30 incredible projects for dazzling, draping, hand-beaded necklaces in this creative resource. From easy to advanced instruction, readers will find it exciting to create these beautiful designs with their own hands. Step-by-step directions are accompanied by simple illustrations, allowing beaders to master even the more complicated techniques. The flexible binding keeps the book lying flat while the beader follows the instructions.
Download or read book Beading with Cabochons written by Jamie Cloud Eakin and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this gloriously photographed and illustrated manual at hand, beaders can create awe-inspiring jewelry. It's the only current, comprehensive guide to working with cabochons--a flat piece of rock or mineral--and it covers all the basics, along with a range of new creative techniques and hot trends. Find out which tools and materials to use, which beads work best, and how to wrap them round the stones. Craft turned, pointed, twisted, brick stitch, ruffled, or scalloped edges, or add decorative fringe. For something dramatic, combine more than one cabochon in a single piece. Or, instead of natural stone, use dichroic glass or other found objects. Make a glittering brooch, funky bracelets, a wearable art necklace, and other showstoppers.
Download or read book A Beaded Romance written by Kelly Wiese and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge your passion for beading! The author of Beaded Allure is back with more exquisite, enticing jewelry you will love. Kelly Wiese ensures that all eyes will be on you with 26 dazzling designs for creating necklaces, bracelets, earrings and more. She covers basic beadweaving techniques and stitches, then expertly guides you through each project step by step. Inside A Beaded Romance, you'll find: • 11 beading stitches that are easy to learn, with additional information on tools, materials and techniques. • 26 projects with detailed instructions, photos and difficulty ratings that will allow beaders of all skill levels to dive right in. • Jewelry patterns for every style, whether it's charming or seductive, modern or classic. Get swept away in A Beaded Romance!
Download or read book Bead It with Beadwork written by Jean Campbell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating stunning, professional-looking beaded jewelry is a snap with with Bead It with Beadwork Inside you'll find 16 artisan projects featuring the attention-to-detail and clear instruction readers' have come to expect from Beadwork magazine. Each beautifully beaded necklace, pair of earrings, pin, and bracelet includes all the direction you'll need from tools to materials to step-by-step illustrations. With Bead It with Beadwork, you're just a few beads and strings away from creating unique jewelry you'll love to wear.
Download or read book Sioux Beadwork written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 50 Beaded Bracelets written by Tammy Honaman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Beadwork magazine's most popular designs! Dreaming of creating your own wearable art? This gorgeous guide is a must-have for aspiring and experienced jewelry artists alike. Featuring projects for all skill levels, 50 Beaded Bracelets showcases the top techniques and styles from one of the country's most beloved beading magazines. Turn the pages to find: • Detailed tutorials on popular beading stitches—including peyote, herringbone, right-angle weave, and more. • Illustrated, step-by-step directions for 50 beautiful bracelets with graduated skill levels, so you can learn the basics before moving on to more detailed designs. • Tips on choosing the right beads for your project and working with a variety of shapes beads. Whether you're a new to beading or an experienced crafter looking for inspiration, 50 Beaded Bracelets is the ultimate resource for creating one-of-a-kind adornments to keep or give.
