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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer) | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Franchetti Michaels
Publisher: Visual
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $13.42
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 3120
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0470101504
Dewey Decimal Number: 739.27
EAN: 9780470101506
ASIN: 0470101504
Publication Date: October 8, 2007
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Shipping: International shipping available
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Product 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
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Teach Yourself Visually, Jewelry Making & Beading September 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
great book, easy to work with and follow September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am learning about jewelry making and this book is the most helpfull that I have found.
Teach yourself visually Jewelry making and beading August 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an awesome book for the novice, it show's pictures of the many different jewelry making tools and provides explanations as to what they are used for.
Ideal teaching tool for the dedicated beader August 12, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Excellent July 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic. It goes into great detail. It has clear instructions with great pictures. This is a good resource for the beginner and the more experienced beading fanatic.
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