Fill the year ahead with handcrafted beads that you can make yourself by following tutorials from
Bead-Making Lab
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Imagine a year in beads. We're talking 52 handmade varieties all handcrafted by you!
makes this bounty of bead making possible with instructions for bead designs that run the gamut from sophisticated to playful.
is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book simple to use. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Choose from traditional materials like paper mache and polymer clay, or opt for new materials such as resins and shrink plastic. Once you've selected your medium, follow the lab instructions for the bead-making technique of your choice. Try a new technique each week! With how-tos including molding, carving, painting, gluing, drilling beach glass and pebbles, and creating fiber-art beads with felting and embroidery, you'll have a year of unique projects ahead of you.
also offers ideas on how to turn your beads into jewelry and gives you a sneak peek at some contemporary bead artisans' best work. Get busy beading, crafters!