Synopsis
Making glass beads can be surprisingly hassle-free, quick, and rewarding. Here are complete directions, plus ideas for making them into distinctive jewelry items.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-03-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 112 pages | | Height: | 10.3 in | | Width: | 8.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
With a flame and an inexpensive glass rod you can make your own beads of beauty or make commercial beads more enchanting and striking. Start with the basics -- essential supplies and equipment, and setting up a work station and torch, as well as some safety tips -- before moving on to the projects. Begin with a basic bead, and before long you'll be shaping beads, adding spots, dots, eyes, stripes, and tails. And that's not even all! As you work through the projects and master various tricks, you'll find plenty of room for experimentation and individual creativity, and a whole new direction and approach to the art of bead making.
Industry Reviews
Beads have become so popular that entire shops are now devoted to selling beads and bead accessories. However, it is possible to make colorful beads of one's own from craft materials. Casey's beads are often humorous items made from glued strips of cloth, yarn, or paper and finished off with clear nail polish. Resembling polymer clay beads, they can be made in fantastic shapes and colors. The projects have detailed, step-by-step instructions with large enough illustrations to be used for children's as well as adult crafts. Jenkins's beads are little glass gems made using standard glassworking supplies and equipment such as a kiln and propane torch. She gives step-by-step instructions for plain glass, millefiori (thousand flowers), sculpted beads, and others. Photographs of museum-quality beads by other artists are interspersed throughout and provide an eye-opening look at the bead as art. Both books are welcome additions to craft collections.
Moore
After dispensing with an abbreviated history of beads, Jenkins launches into the basics and building blocks, graduating from the simple, such as practices for extinguishing a torch, to the complex, such as the art of casing and sculpturing glass. The explanations are in plain English, and every step of the process is accompanied by color photographs. There is enough detail to make unsuspecting readers into addicts, as Jenkins, once a biologist by profession, admits to being. An excellent introduction.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Jacobs
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