Find over one hundred of the best small projects from favorite beading designer Dorothy Wood in Little Beaded Treasures, a treasury of ideas that offers something for everyone. All the projects are a small and manageable size making them quick and relatively inexpensive. Includes instructions for making all the popular jewelry pieces, plus handbag charms, trinket boxes and gift bags, and also features a thorough ?beading basics? techniques section.

For beaders, weavers, fiber artists and quilt makers - Fun, versatile and easy-to-learn technique for making finger-woven treasure bracelets, necklaces, tassels and straps. Detailed photos illustrate every step. Includes design ideas and gallery. Create many different looks with this technique, including one that's uniquely your own!

“Market-pleasing motifs for holiday ornaments, wedding and anniversary sentiments.”—Booklist. “You’re going to really enjoy this book....designs are top-notch, the photos and charts are large and clear and the instructions...very easy to follow.”—Quick & Easy Crafts. “Cross stitching with beads is fun and easy, and you’ll be delighted with the dimension beads add to your work.” —Bead & Button.

Come take the journey with Kay as she shows you how to begin adding soldering, dapping, sawing, and other skills from the metalsmith’s repertoire into your beading. Kay’s projects will also show beginner metalworkers how to incorporate the rich, colorful, sumptuous look that semiprecious beads bring to metal jewelry. These necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants present such a complete range of techniques, all fully and beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos. You’ll be amazed at the eye candy you can create!

Artist and author Nancy Zellers takes it to the limit with this utterly original bead tube book. Using a simple peyote or brick-stitched tube, the author shows how to create more than 30 projects ranging in style from elegant to funky, and with colors spanning from subtle to brilliant, all from tiny, colorful, easy-to-find seed beads. Readers are able to see how changing colors and designs create new and exciting beaded beads. Also, a range of bracelets, earrings, and necklaces will delight the aspiring artist.

Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba documents a disappearing artistic and cultural tradition with over three hundred photographs showing individual pieces, rare images of women wearing their jewelry with traditional dress, and the various regions in Yemen where the author did her field research. Amulet cases, hair ornaments, bridal headdresses, earrings, necklaces, ankle and wrist bracelets are all beautifully photographed in intricate detail. A chapter on the history of silversmithing in Yemen tells the surprising story of the famed Jewish Yemeni silversmiths, many of whom left Yemen in the late 1940s.

“A spectacular encyclopedia of embroidery, sharing valuable techniques passed down through the generations . . . you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it.” —Sew Magazine Enjoy the tranquility of slow stitching with this step-by-step, visual guide to 149 embroidery stitches, motifs, and extras. Go beyond basic color theory–robust color charts take the guesswork out of choosing thread, silk ribbon, buttons, beads, and trims. Then take your embroidery to the next level with luxurious seam treatments and stunning stand-alone designs. Bestselling author Christen Brown’s traditional and contemporary techniques are showcased in a colorful gallery of crazy-quilted projects. “An overview of embroidery stitches and techniques as well as inspiration for embroidery projects . . . She dissects several of her pieces, summarizing the color palette, decorative elements, and stitches used.” —Library Journal

Create the most precious necklace pouches from stunning TOHO Beads! Learn Peyote Stitch, Brick Stitch and a variation of Ndebele/Herringbone Stitch. You will also find instructions for making Beaded Netting and two variations of Branched Fringe.

Tessa has collected all her treasures in an old shoe box, but she soon learns that the most important and lasting treasures are often overlooked.

Provides the solution for finding each of the twelve insect jewels which were hidden in different parts of the country from the clues that were given in the author's previous work "A Treasure's Trove, " and profiles the readers who found the jewels.