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EVERYTHING WE SELL COMES WITH A 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE OR YOUR MONEY BACK! | |  | | Home » Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making and Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer) | | | | | | | Description: | | You've probably coveted jewelry you've seen in artsy boutiques and fashion magazines or envied friends who have the perfect bling to accent everything. With this book, you'll learn to craft designs that are chic but inexpensive. With hundreds of detailed photos, this book covers tools and supplies, bead stringing and weaving, wire wrapping, and more. Terrific projects will get you started and inspire you to create your own jewelry and beadwork designs. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review - Each skill or technique is defined and described
Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance | | | Features: | |
• WIL-1506
• 9780470101506
• Brand New Item / Unopened Product
• Wiley Publishing
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Chris Franchetti Michaels | | Paperback:
| 304 pages | | Publisher:
| Visual | | Publication Date:
| October 08, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470101504 | | Product Length:
| 8.05 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.7 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.84 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 91 reviews |
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136 of 137 found the following review helpful:
 Ideal teaching tool for the dedicated beaderAug 12, 2008
By H. Grove
"Errant Dreams Reviews"
If you want to get into beading & jewelry-making, Chris Franchetti Michaels's Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading is a fantastic place to start. It's a thick book loaded with photographs, and it tackles a comprehensive spread of topics.
Thorough charts detail everything from the common lengths for various styles and sizes of necklaces (both men's and women's), bracelets, and anklets to common finishing methods used for different stringing materials. Photos clearly display techniques for knotting strings, creating eyepins and headpins (not to mention clasps), and making your own Byzantine chain from jump rings. Wire gauge is demonstrated visually, with an image of each gauge's thickness, and with examples of what each gauge is used for.
The book goes through bead-stringing techniques; wire-work; bead-weaving (by hand and on a loom) and even macrame. If you truly want to delve into beaded jewelry as more than just a way to make a few pieces for yourself, then I highly recommend grabbing a copy of Michaels's book. It's extremely valuable and highly instructional. The use of brief, clear instructions combined with a ton of tables and photographs make it a quick read that teaches you an incredible amount of material. It's also a fantastic quick-reference book for use while making your creations.
174 of 178 found the following review helpful:
Really great guideNov 15, 2007
By T. Decker
This book is really great for telling you everything that you wanted to know about jewelry making of all types from wirework, to bead weaving, to macrame. It gives you the little details that other books leave out and answers all of the questions you may have. There are step-by-step pictures of each technique, so you don't have to "guess" at how something is done. I think that every jewelry creator should have this book on their shelf, especially if you are just learning.
116 of 119 found the following review helpful:
Good book to start and grow withNov 10, 2007
By A T
I chose this book over others because it had chapters on both beginning techniques as well as more intermediate ones once you had mastered that. I also liked that it combined bead stringing, bead weaving and wire work all in one resource. Project ideas are provided but not as many as you might find in other books - just something to know depending on what you are looking for.
39 of 39 found the following review helpful:
Teach Yourself Visually, Jewelry Making & BeadingSep 01, 2008
By E. Leverich
"crabby"
I am just learning how to make crystal jewelry. This is the fourth book I purchased and it is the best. To actually see the illustrations is invaluable. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to make jewelry.
51 of 53 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Book!Feb 08, 2008
By K. A. Leeman
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer)If you are a beginner or advanced beader, this book is extremely easy to follow. The pictures are clear, directions are easily understood, and there are many ideas to use for your beading projects. I am very satisfied with my selection.
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