Beadwork

Looking for how-to instructions? Are you an advanced beader or an ambitious beginner? Want to learn about stitches (including the newly created right-angle ladder stitch and cluster stitch), tools, supplies, and basic skills? Whether you want to make elegant pieces that look like fine jewelry or "cute critters", you can find a variety of projects in books from the library catalog.  For more books on this topic, try a subject search of "beadwork".

Sabine Lippert's Beadwork Evolution: New Techniques Using Peyote Stitch and Right Angle Weave by Sabine Lippert

Seed Bead Chic: 25 Elegant Projects Inspired By Fine Jewelry by Amy Katz

Stitching with Two-Hole Shaped Beads by Virginia Jensen

Lena Corwin's Made By Hand 

with photography by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes

The Art of Beadwork: Techniques and Inspirational Projects For Creating Exquisite Pieces 

by Jane Lock

Beaded Bugs by Nicola Tedman with Jean Power  [eBook]

Links

Bead Society of New Mexico

Bead Fest Santa Fe

International Society of Glass Beadmakers - The Gathering