| Don’t settle for just any bead when you’re creating
handcrafted jewelry. Make unique, one-of-a-kind beads from silk, muslin, or hand-dyed
ribbon embellished with crystals, fiber, glitter, wire, and more for show-stopping
bijoux. Fabulous Fabric Beads combines beading, scrapbooking, quilting,
fiber arts, and mixed-media techniques to create lightweight beads made from rolled
tubes of silk fabric and painted or embellished with stamps and other materials.
Author Kristal Wick shares her simple and highly sought-after techniques for
creating basic fabric beads, plus ideas for embellishing to achieve unique effects.
Begin with a primer on supplies, materials and tools, suggestions for ideal fabrics,
and how to create surface designs on fabric, including painting, dyeing, stamping,
stenciling, computer printing, and foiling. How to create basic fabric beads is
explained in detail, from cutting, rolling, dipping, and drying to how to create
collage beads. Kristal explains how to use wire wrapping and metals and how to
incorporate fibers and embellishments.
All beadmaking steps are shown with step-by-step photography and use easy-to-find
materials from craft and fabric stores. Sidebars and tips plus bonus information
on using successful color palettes help the reader make stunning and personal
jewelry. An inspirational gallery of art jewelry pieces using the featured beads
gives readers ideas to use beads in ways they never envisioned.
Projects are inexpensive and use readily available materials or fabric scraps
or even materials that readers already have in their stash. No expensive equipment
is needed and many beads can be made with common components. Plus, beads can be
created in just a few hours, and all finished projects can be created in a few
hours.
To achieve different shapes, Kristal also uses fabric to cover inexpensive
wooden, plastic, and resin beads. In her finished pieces, she combines her unique
beads with commercial beads, using simple stringing and wire techniques for stunning
art jewelry.
Paperbound, 8½ x 10¼, 112 pages
125 photographs
ISBN 978-1-59668-077-7
About the author:
After years in the corporate world, Kristal Wick decided to follow her
passion and take the plunge into the craft and jewelry world. Once a glass jewelry
maker, she was inspired to design her signature Sassy Silkies™ by customer
requests for lighter jewelry. In addition to making and selling her beads, she
teaches and designs for Swarovski. Her art jewelry pieces are sold in galleries
around the world.
Kristal has been featured on HGTV and PBS as well as in publications including
Jewelry Artist, Stringing,
Beadwork,
Bead Style, Crafts Business, Simply Beads, Sew News,
Sewing Savvy, PieceWork,
Step by Step Beads, Crafts Report,
Vogue Patterns, Bead Unique, and Belle Armoire. Kristal lives
in Arvada, Colorado.
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