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| Fabulous Fabric Beads: Create Custom Beads and Art Jewelry | 
 enlarge | Author: Kristal Wick
Publisher: Interweave Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1596680776
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5942
EAN: 9781596680777
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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Product Description
A spectacular combination of beading, scrapbooking, fiber arts, and mixed-media techniques, this amazing handbook describes how to create 30 handcrafted beads from rolled tubes of silk, muslin, or ribbon. With more than 20 easy embellishment techniques incorporating glitter, paint, crystals, or wire, these projects result in stunning beads that can be created with inexpensive and readily available supplies and tools described in this guide. Detailed discussions on choosing appropriate fabrics and creating a variety of surface designs are coupled with well-documented instructions on how to cut, roll, dip, and dry collage beads, and how to cover inexpensive wooden and plastic beads to easily achieve different shapes. Additional sidebars and tips include bonus information on selecting successful color palettes and 10 simple stringing techniques.
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 Comprehensive in scope December 26, 2008
This is an example of what ideas come forth from the muse when one has lots of time in the studio. Nicely laid out in easy to understand instructions and clear visuals.
Everything I expected and more December 16, 2008
If you love making beaded jewelry and long to expand your designs, this is a must have book for your library. Not only does she explain simply how to actually make the beads but this book is filled with wonderful ideas on decorating your own cloth. It's filled with gorgeous pictures that are candy for the eyes.
fabulous fabric beads By: Kristal Wick Book Review December 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
editor Debbie Witenski
BellaOnline's Jewelry Making Editor
fabulous fabric beads By: Kristal Wick Book Review
When I first picked up this book, I thought, "fabric beads?". I didn't think there would be enough to write a book on.
Kristal Wick has opened my eyes to a whole new side of bead making. And the way she has put this book together is very easy to follow. I can't wait to try some of her techniques. There are many ways to make fabric beads.
This book combines a wide variety of techniques like; beading, quilting, fiber arts scrap booking and mixed media to create some beautiful jewelry.
In the beginning of the book she tells about what kinds of fabrics you can use and a little about them.
She also gives a good list of what you will need to make fabric beads. And a lot of the items you probably already have in your home. Especially if you are already a crafter.
There are a lot of things she tells you about in this book that you can use for the surface design and embellishment. Everything from a battery- operated toothbrush to hole punches and die cuts. When I read through this book there were things she mentioned that I have never heard of before. One of them is the Tee Juice fabric markers. They looked like bingo stampers. And "Paint sticks", they are probably messy.
After she does a great job on listing materials and tools, she moves on to surface design on fabric. Kristal tells how to do many techniques for putting designs on fabric. I am so excited to try some of them. She has really peaked my interest.
She actually takes you through, step-by-step , each of 18 different techniques. With her clear instructions and step-by-step photography, you can't go wrong!
One technique I found to be interesting (of many) the salting technique. It is pretty simple with cool results.
Then the fun part starts. She then goes through cutting the fabric, rolling the beads, dipping, and how to stablize the beads. All with well explained directions and great photos to go with them.
You will definitely be able to make a fabric bead of some kind after you've read Kristal's new book.
In the next section, she shows you many fabric "recipes", as she calls them to create beads using different fabric choices, texture and surface treatments. She had really pushed the imagination here.
I loved the Talisman Message Beads, they are so awesome. And the embossed leather beads are really cool.
The next section is devoted to beautiful projects using the many techniques and fabrics throughout the book.
Each project gives a list of supplies, step-by-step instructions and photos of the final product.
The projects go through the color palette with vibrant, rich colors. I absolutely love what she did with colors.
The last section is a brilliant gallery of jewelry inspiration. Many beautiful works of art to give you inspiration. By the end of the book I am definitely..............INSPIRED!
Jewelry Making Site @ BellaOnline
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Deborah C. Witenski
BellaOnline Editor
Kristal is a Creative Powerhouse December 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My pal Kristal is a creative powerhouse and, in her new book, Fabulous Fabric Beads, she shares the secrets to making her popular Sassy Silkies and other fabric beads.
Fabulous Fabric Beads covers everything from supplies, materials and tools, suggestions for ideal fabrics, creating surface designs on fabric, step-by-steps for making fabric beads, using fabric to embellish beads and combining your new beads with wire wrapping, metal, fiber and embellishments.
One of my favorite parts of the book is toward the end, where Kristal shares collections of beads in beautiful color palettes with suggestions for combining colors in unexpected ways.
Great Compliation of methods to develop your own creations November 26, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was hesitant to purchase this book as I have tried a few of these methods on my own, particularly after reading Sherrill Kahn's 2007 book "Creative Embellishments" for she provides a VERY short section on making fabric and paper beads very much like those of Wick's. Kahn also provides methods to decorate these beads scattered throughout other parts of her book...however, I have to say that Wick's work is much more step-by-step, the beads seem often surreal - definitely don't look like fabric, and provides ideas to use these in many of her jewelry pieces. Kahn uses her beads more frequently in multi-media wall art, as well as other things and her beads have a less "completed" look IMHO. Yet for Kahn's work, that is what she is striving for and with Wick's work, she definitely wants to present the beads for use in jewelry and shows us how we can develop that special bead, even if it is making designs on your own blank canvas of material. Yes these techniques are seen in other books, particularly in manipulating fabric; but many are not (at least in the books I have) - examples - the embossed leather beads, the ribbon muslin bead that has the appeal of focal bead perfect in mixed media jewelry art, and preparation of the surface of a standard fabric bead to look so unlike fabric that it does make one motivated to see what they can come up with following the knowledge Wick presents within this book. I also loved Wick's statement at the beginning of the book that "...my customers ask for something lighter...set out on a journey to capture the vibrant colors of dichroic glass with weightless material." I can truly understand that by having a lighter weight bead, especially for focal beads or for earrings, the jewelry can be even more desirable to the wearer.
Believe it or not, Kahn provides an outstanding commentary to the book "Fabulous Fabric Beads" in the introduction. So you can understand how even one type of method used by one artist can be utilized and be effective in another book...especially if the artist's goal is much different than others performing the same/similar type of design. Wick has definitely done this by showing us her techniques within the pages of this book.
I gave this book 4 stars, when I really wanted to give it a 4.5 star rating, and this is due to the fact that I have seen these sorts of beads elsewhere and developed by different artists for various projects (e.g. Kahn's work). Plus I would have liked more images of jewelry designs for those are great motivators for me when I am stuck in a creative rut. However, to have all this information put into one sound book full of ideas, fabric manipulation and actual jewelry design using these fabric beads, I am definitely glad I purchased this book. It is a great addition to my library of techniques in various media and for going outside the box when developing my own jewelry designs.
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