The Beaded Home: Simply Beautiful Projects

By Katherine Duncan Aimone

Book Overview

Decorate and illuminate your home with these inspirational beaded creations. Beads always look great as jewellery, but here you can also use them as accessories for an incredible range of items: - drawer pulls - tassels - fringed tablecloths - wind chimes - candlesticks - - curtain tiebacks - valances - frames - pillows - cushions - pot pourri - - lampshades - cutlery - clocks - bottle toppers - sachets - baskets - * Try fun techniques ranging from traditional methods (bead embroidery and making fringes) to popular trends (wrapping wire and beads) using fantastic baubles like bugle beads and semi-precious stones * Fill your house with glitter and glamour - pretty dazzling things. * 45 wonderfully imaginative projects display the creative range of this craft. * First Paperback Edition: hardback was in June 2002; ISBN 1-57990-244-8

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579903819
• ISBN13: 9781579903817
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Here a bead, there a bead, EVERYWHERE

It's not necessary for a book like this to start with bead types (bone, coral, African trade). Most who would pick up a book on decorating with beads, like me, probably have drawers full of them and just want to get them out where we can see them. I also don't need to know what tools I'll need to fill my entire house with beaded décor, so just rip out the beginning of the book and take me straight to ideas. Kudos to the author: she's got wonderful ideas. There's beaded fringe on a window valance -- wow! Imagine the glitter in the sunlight! There are embellished gourds, drawer pulls, picture frames, bead thumbtacks, a table runner, stepping stones, and on and on. Katherine provides us with so many ideas, we could cover our entire abode with beads (not a bad idea!).

GORGEOUS! An extraordinary book full of many great projects

I *LOVE* this book! It is filled with innumerable gorgeous innovative projects which are both spectacular as they are, and easily modified to suit your own style/tastes. The exceptionally wide range of projects includes everything from exquisite beaded bottle tops and bottle people to a beaded abacus and beaded napkin rings. There is truly something for all styles and tastes. The projects are gorgeous in themselves, and will also spark your own creativity. I love it!