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Create your own unique pieces of jewellery using these great design boards. We offer different sizes to allow for greater flexibility while designing. Our complete line of bead boards & bead trays will surely fill any of your beading needs. Great for jewellery making craft projects bead stringing aligning beads prior to stringing sorting and organising your beads. The reason for the U shape is for necklaces so you can see how the layout will look. -
An awl is a beading tool used for knotting. The awl makes it easier for you to make consistent and tight knots. Use to form knots between beads & pearls. Comes in handy when you need to open small beads for covering crimps. Guides knots down close to beads. Fine point helps loosen knots and tangles. -
The recently reformulated E6000 glue is now much easier to use, almost odourless and a best seller. It is suitable for adhering crystals to fabric and is widely used in the Irish dancing industry. it is also excellent for glueing metals to glass. It is a slow drying glue. Always use any glue in a well ventilated room. -
Finally an adhesive that can bond gems, sequins, glitter, Micro Beads, and rhinestones to fabric. This glue is ideal for attaching rhinestones to porous material (fabric, wood, suede) without damaging the metallic backing. Gem-Tac requires only a small amount to hold; dries clear. Permanent, water-based, non-toxic and washable. -
Steampunk-Style Jewelry: A Maker’s Collection of Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Designs”” by Jean Campbell. This how-to jewelry-making book features the work of an array of invited jewelry designers influenced by the growing Steampunk trend. In Steampunk circles, jewelry-makers are often master metalsmiths who combine found objects with fine metals to create elaborate pieces. In Steampunk-Style Jewelry, the projects focus on “”no fire”” techniques–like simple stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, gluing, stitching, and off-loom beadwork–so that even a beginner can create pieces in the style. Each project provides a complete materials and tools list, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations. This book offers a broad overview of a growing design trend that is part of the literary, industrial design, fashion, and popular culture scene. Readers will learn about the art movement through the many photographic sidebars that explore the many aspects of the trend. Softcover, 144 pages, measures 9” x 9”. -
Steampunk is a burgeoning counter-cultural movement; a genre, community, and artform. The Steampunk movement seeks to recapture the spirit of invention, adventure, and craftsmanship reminiscent of early-nineteenth-century industrialisation, in part to restore a sense of wonder to a technology-jaded world. Packed with 1,000 full-colour photographs, 1,000 Steampunk Creations features a stunning and mind-boggling showcase of modified technology, art and sculpture, home decor, fashion and haberdashery, jewellery and accessories, and curious weapons, vehicles, and contraptions. -
Soutache & Bead Embroidery Amee Sweet-McNamara Soutache & Bead Embroidery introduces a fascinating new technique to bead enthusiasts, fibre artists, and jewellery makers. This thin colourful cord can be wound, bound, and stitched into place with beautiful beads and findings, resulting in fabulous and affordable jewellery. Bursting with vibrant colour, soutache cording introduces an intriguing fibre element to jewellery making ? a trend that’s HOT, HOT, HOT! Soutache & Bead Embroidery teaches jewellery artists this fresh technique ?with no expensive materials or equipment required! Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 96 pages -
Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 2 (PFT-V2) is the second installment in the paracord fusion ties book series and another stunning achievement by author J.D. Lenzen. Like Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 1, PFT-V2 reveals innovative and stylish ways of storing paracord for later use. So once again you'll find crisp, clear, full-colour photographs (over 1,000 in all!), coupled with succinctly written, easy to follow step-by-step instructions for bracelets, straps, and key fobs, as well as medallions and other storage ties that will keep your paracord on-hand and ready for deployment. Still PFT-V2 doesn't stop there! It also provides directions and techniques that represent the next level in paracording knowledge-the making of practical paracord objects. Primarily designed to provide survival and tactical advantages, practical paracord objects are in themselves useful. Providing benefits to those who tie them, in real time; as opposed to when they're unraveled and the cord within them used. -
J.D. Lenzen is the creator of the highly acclaimed YouTube channel `Tying It All Together,` and the producer of over 200 instructional videos. He's been formally recognised by the International Guild of Knot Tyers (IGKT) for his contributions to knotting, and is the originator of fusion knotting innovative knots created through the merging of different knot elements or knotting techniques. `Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 1` is the first of a multiple volume set of books exclusively utilizing paracord for his fusion knotting techniques. Originally used as parachute suspension lines during World War II, paracord has since become a means to create an immeasurable variety of useful items, survival tools, and decorative ties. ...Lenzen guides readers through 35 different paracord fusion ties, all of which have never been presented in book form before. By way of over 800 crisp, clear, full-colur photographs, coupled with succinctly written, easy to follow step-by-step instructions...
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Right angle weave (RAW) is one of the two most popular bead weaving stitches, and this entry in the new I CAN series serves as a comprehensive primer for the novice as well as a refresher for beaders with more experience. High-profile teacher Mabeline Gidez presents 25 instructional projects covering every aspect of the technique: flat RAW, increases and decreases, embellishing, making curves, tubular RAW, polygon stitch, and RAW beaded beads. As the topics become more advanced, so do the projects! -
Whether you’re an experienced beader or just starting out, the I CAN series has been designed especially for you. I CAN Herringbone teaches herringbone stitch in all its forms, guiding readers with the aid of hundreds of step-by-step illustrations. These 25 accessible, wearable, and beautiful projects–including earrings, necklaces, chokers, pendants, and bracelets–feature techniques ranging from the simplest version of the flat stitch to embellishment, tubular herringbone, and completely three-dimensional forms. -
This book will teach you step-by-step how to make "beadie babies" bead animals. 25+ easy to follow projects make it fun and easy. Color photos of each project will keep you on track! A great art motivator, making bead animals helps younger children develop counting, patterns and fine motor. Older kids just think its fun. This activity will keep your children entertained for hours.