| | |  | | Home » Glamorous Beaded Jewelry: Bracelets, Necklaces, Earrings, and Rings | | | | | | | Description: | | With Glamorous Beaded Jewelry, beaders can create 25 fun and sophisticated pieces from chandelier earrings, to chunky bracelets, to knotted-and-bejeweled chokers. The stunning projects are inspired by the designer jewelry seen in upscale boutiques and the runways of today’s fashion houses. Featured pieces are deceptively simple and inexpensive to make, with clear step-by-step instructions and photographs that give beginners new skills and intermediate beaders new approaches to their craft. A helpful Sources & Resources section ensures that the featured materials are close at hand so that the adage, “Make it today. Wear it tonight!” comes true.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| M. T. Ryan | | Paperback:
| 144 pages | | Publisher:
| Home Arts | | Publication Date:
| June 01, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1580112951 | | Package Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 13 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Where do I find the beads?!Jan 21, 2010
I loved the jewelry projects and the easy-to-follow instructions, but I have been unable to find many of the beads used (or even reasonably similar substitutes). For example, I would love to know where Ryan got the pink beads used in the dewdrop necklace. It would have been helpful if the bead suppliers were specifically named for each project.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Fresh Designs, New TechniquesJul 08, 2009
Finally, a book that provides project that go beyond basic beading! Each project includes clear step-by-step instructions, with pictures that illustrate each step and offer a deconstructed view of multi-strand pieces. New techniques are plentiful, as well as new ways to use shaped beads. You won't be wearing anything "typical" again.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
One of my favorite jewelry-making booksMay 26, 2009
My local library recently updated their collection of jewelry-making books, and I'm glad this was one of the new additions. I haven't had the opportunity to make all or even half of the projects as of yet, but the instructions seem easy to follow, and some of the projects are - or at least seem to me - original and very beautiful, and not too difficult to adapt to my own taste. My favorite so far is the crocheted bracelet, which was easy enough to figure out even though I don't know the first thing about crocheting, and I'd like to get my hands on some 20 and 18 guage wire so I can construct some of the other pieces, like the chandelier earrings and the swirling-wire and pearl bracelet. If you enjoy wire-working, I'd recommend you consider adding this book to your collection; and if wire-working is not your prefered approach to jewelry-making, I'd recommend it anyway, since there are some other good projects like the double-strand orbiting beads necklace.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Amazing!Sep 15, 2008
M.T.Ryan is an amazing designer! This book is my all time favorite of about twenty jewelry design books. I would like to make almost everything from this book.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
I loved it before I could do the work!!!!Aug 24, 2008
Due to a lack of experience & knowledge in jewelry-making, this was the first book I bought. I was able to make only one or two things in it, and
those I had to *dumb-down* to my techniques. But I LOVED the designs so much that I prepared as if I was going to reach the more experienced-level needed to make this beautiful jewelry. I actually picked out six or seven of the designs, bought all the pieces necessary to make them, put them each in a large pastic bag, marked them with the name of the piece and the book reference (I did doctoral studies so annotation is driven into my brain).
Now, about 18 months later, I have pulled out those designs. They are fabulous. I also pulled out the book again recently and found more items I want to make.
Someone wrote in their review that the designs involve wireworking, and that is true. The person also wrote that many of the designs involve light color crystals. Also true. It is from this book that I began my love affair with *Swarovski* crystals. This is personal preference. One can adapt most of the designs to use semi-precious stones.
A few of the designs are *vintage.*
So you can buy it before you learn how to crimp and use it to inspire your development, or you can buy it if you know how to wirewrap and just jump in. But you will find GLAMOROUS jewelry in this book! I hope they do another one.
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