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| Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry | 
| Authors: Diane Fitzgerald, Helen Banes
Publisher: Flower Valley Press
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
Buy Used: $15.00
You Save: $12.95 (46%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 76683
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0962054364
Dewey Decimal Number: 739
EAN: 9780962054365
ASIN: 0962054364
Publication Date: October 1, 1994
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 A Wonderful Technique for Creating Fiber Jewelry March 11, 2008
I've been creating tapestry needlewoven necklaces for over 15 years. I bought Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry many years ago at a class with Helen Banes. This book has been a wonderful resource ever since. I return to it again and again for inspiration and to refresh my thinking.
Here are some things that I especially like about this book:
- Beads and Threads is filled with glorious color photos of Helen's creations and those of her students. The photos encompass an incredible range of design possibilities and styles and serve to illustrate the almost endless variations possible with this technique.
- There's a section on color, design, and layout that's illuminating and helpful, especially for the first time weaver - all the fundamentals are covered.
- There's a large selection of patterns already graphed and ready to make. A large number of styles and variations are reflected in the patterns, so you're not making the same thing over and over. Also, the size and complexity of the necklace patterns shown varies, so you get experience dealing with larger and or more complicated necklaces as well as smaller less complex designs.
The final chapter is devoted to selecting your beads and elements for the needlewoven necklaces and there are reference sectons at the end of the book that list books and bead societies.
 Beads and Threads March 21, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
An interesting book based on woven ethnic type designs for jewellary, often major show pieces. Good pictures, lots of info on weaving threads and making up your own patterns, explantions easy to follow, very informative with plenty of detail - how to instructions and graphs to follow.
Unleashed Creativity! November 24, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Beads & Threads', by Diane Fitzgerald and Helen Banes is a fantastic book. I have been beading for about 15 yrs, and wanted to try using a different medium with my beads and this book had so many wonderful ideas of using various threads and also even using other items that I wouldn't have thought of using in the neckpiece. They first show you a beautiful gallery of work, which also gives many ideas for my own neckpieces. What follows is directions on how to design my own necklace, and also how to weave it. I'm anxiously awaiting Helen Banes new book on the same subject. Thank-you for a fantastic book!
 Should be titled "Weaving necklaces with a few beads" October 12, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is really a beautiful well written book. It has wonderful ideas and great instructions if you want to learn one method of making woven jewelry and using some beads as you do this. I take nothing away from the authors or the artists who's work is featured in this book. However, any artist ready to take on this skill of weaving needs about half the pictures(or less) of projects to get the idea of how this jewelry looks. I was looking for SEVERAL ideas for using many different fibers in SEVERAL different styles of beaded jewelry. After reading the reviews, I was sure I had found something like what I wanted. I was disappointed that so few techniques were shown. I would definitely suggest that the publisher offer the option of searching inside the book. If they had, I wouldn't have had to pay the return postage.
Showcases a new technique for making fiber jewelry July 4, 2001
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
In Beads And Threads, Diane Fitzgerald and Helen Banes effectively collaborate to showcase a new technique for making fiber jewelry. Superbly illustrated throughout in full color, each project is clearly laid out, complete with a pattern suited to the needs of even the most novice of students. Beads And Threads is divided into four major chapters: A Gallery of Necklaces; Designing Your Own Necklace: Weaving Your Necklace; Patterns; and Finding or Making the Perfect Beads for Your Necklace. The informative and instructive text is enhanced further with appendices listing "Other Books and Publications"; "Bead Societies"; "Sources of Beads"; "Photo & Illustration Credits"; and a succinct index. If you are looking for a do-it-yourself weekend art, craft, or personal adornment project ideas, try browsing through Diane Fitzgerald and Helen Banes' Beads And Threads!
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