From Paula S. Morgan,
Your Guide to Beadwork.
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Get ready for some of the most incredible images of contemporary glass beads, and learn more about beadmaking techniques, bead artist's vision, and their inspiration in this expansive pictorial essay on contemporary glass bead making.

Glass Beads using a Variety of Techniques

Just as the title says, this book is a pictorial feast of 1000 courses! Beadmakers such as Bruce St. John Maher, Leah Fairbanks, Ann Sherm Baldwin, Michael Barley, Sage, Lisa Kan, Kate Fowle Meleney and so many more - names you know and names you're going to want to know!

This book kept me up way past bedtime with all the amazing beads; I couldn't stop until I'd seen them all! The color in the book is gorgeous, the layout crisp and simple; a perfect book for the exhibition of these fine lampwork beads.

And the beads! Covering the gamut of techniques, you'll see everything from soda-lime glass beads, Borosilicate glass beads, slumped glass, kiln-formed beads, dichroic glass, hollow beads, articulated beads and so much more. Each bead is described and the size is listed along with the artist's name and the name of the bead. Some are displayed alone, others in finished pieces of jewelry or other display.

A perfect book for your own bead library or as an excellent gift for a beader besotted by lampwork. Priced at only $19.96, buy two - one for you and one for a friend!