Creating Crystal Jewelry with Swarovski: 65 Sparkling Designs with Crystal Beads and Stones

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Creative Publishing international, Jan 4, 2011 - Crafts & Hobbies - 128 pages
Elegant, old-world jewelry with modern style.

Working with world-famous Swarovski crystal beads, author Laura McCabe creates luminous necklaces, earrings, pendants, and rings for beaders of every skill level. The author provides complete step-by-step instruction for 20 projects (10 for beginners) -- and presents 45 more in a photo gallery of design variations, teaching readers how to vary colors and shapes to create custom effects. All 65 designs are made with only three simple beadwork techniques: flat peyote stitch, tubular peyote stitch, and spiral rope. Laura McCabe also provides a chapter on making decorative embellishments, such as bezels, picots, berry clusters, and branch fringe. The concise instructions are illustrated with easy-to-follow illustrations.

  • Beaders of any skill level can create their own high-end, boutique-style jewelry
  • Goes beyond stringing to teach readers three basic beadweaving techniques and principles of design
  • Only book on market endorsed by the worldÆs leading manufacturer of cut-crystal beads
 

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Contents

Chapter 1 THE FASHION HISTORY OF CUT CRYSTAL
7
Chapter 2 SEED BEADS AND CRYSTALS
8
Chapter 3 TOOLS AND MATERIALS
12
Chapter 4 FOUR BASIC STITCHES
16
Chapter 5 TWO BEZELING TECHNIQUES
24
Chapter 6 CREATING CLOSURE
32
Chapter 7 EMBELLISHMENTS
38
The Projects
42
Conversion Charts
143
Sources of Supply
144
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

12 English beading 18mm rivoli 4mm bicones 4mm crystal bicones 65ss dentelles attach backstitch bead and go beaded bead beading needles FireLine Beading time varies beads 1 row beadwork Bezel the stones bezeled stone Bezeling the Rivolis bicone embellishments bracelet branch fringe cabochon center row closure band color 15 connector tab core beads create a tab Creating Crystal Jewelry crown jewel crystal bead Crystal Burst crystal stones cubic zirconia Czech charlottes end bead English beading needles finished fire-polished bead frames geodesic dome go back grams half-hitching Japanese cylinder beads Japanese seed beads Jewelry with Swarovski ladder leather microcrystalline wax scissors middle row Ndebele neck strap outer beads peyote stitch picot ring band rondelle row charlottes row of 11 row of cylinder row of peyote rows of 15°s spiral rope Step stones with technique tail thread test microcrystalline wax three charlottes toggle closure TOOLS AND NOTIONS variation vintage

About the author (2011)

Beadwork artist Laura McCabe, of Stonington, Connecticut, exhibits and sells her jewelry throughout the world -- and to more than 2,000 international clients through her own website www.lauramccabejewelry.com. She regularly teaches workshops in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. She also participates in the Bead & Button Show, Beadwork International, and other large conferences and competitions.

Her work has appeared in Ornament magazine, Beadwork magazine, Lapidary Journal, and Bead & Button magazine. She is also one of the invited designers featured in QuarryÆs Creative Cloth Doll Beading book by Patti Medaris Culea.

Bibliographic information

TitleCreating Crystal Jewelry with Swarovski: 65 Sparkling Designs with Crystal Beads and Stones
AuthorLaura McCabe
PublisherCreative Publishing international, 2011
ISBN1616738200, 9781616738204
Length128 pages
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