Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry: Photographs of Beautiful Contemporary Beadwork

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Today, a large community of highly skilled beaders creates work that's every bit as much art as craft. This gorgeous book showcases 500 images of the world's best contemporary beaded jewelry, produced by 275 artists whose work is notable for exceptional technical expertise, innovative combinations, and sheer beauty. Beaders of all levels will find much to admire--and inspire--in these pages.
 
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Overview

Today, a large community of highly skilled beaders creates work that's every bit as much art as craft. This gorgeous book showcases 500 images of the world's best contemporary beaded jewelry, produced by 275 artists whose work is notable for exceptional technical expertise, innovative combinations, and sheer beauty. Beaders of all levels will find much to admire--and inspire--in these pages.
 
The extraordinary international roster of accomplished designers includes:
Diane Fitzgerald  *  Ingeborg Vandamme *  Helena Tang-Lim  *  Felieke van der Leest  * 
Marcia DeCoster  *   Paulette Baron  *  Kira Seiden  *  Sherry Serafini  *  Melanie Potter  * 
Jamie Cloud Eakin  *  Sabine Lippert  *  Wayne Robbins  *  Kyunghee Kim  *  Katharina Eder  * 
Tamuna Lezhava  *  Veronica Jonsson  *  Margie Deeb  *  Jean Power  *  Amy Katz  *  
Jean Campbell  *  Ann Tevepaugh Mitchell  *  Nancy Cain  *  Laura McCabe  *  Rachel Nelson-Smith *  Eva Dobos  *  Huib Petersen  *  Carol Wilcox Wells  * as well as many talented but lesser-known artists!
 

 

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Opening this gorgeous hunk of a book is like walking into a high-end jewelry gallery. There are 500 full-color photographs of beaded jewelry—necklaces, rings, bracelets, pins and earrings—created by 275 artists with beads, wire, filament, and fiber. Some of the artists are well-known to beaders, like Carol Wilcox Wells and Diane Fitzgerald, and some not-so-well-known, with their work published for the first time. This makes for a heady blend of inspiration, ideas, and expression. Editor Hemachandra selected the 500 beaded objects from submissions by 360 artists from 30 countries. To his credit, no single style—bead weaving, bead embroidery, bead stringing—gets short shrift. The photography is of high professional standards, no Instagram shots by amateurs posted to Facebook, and is also instructively illustrative of the beadwork, offering closeup shots that will help the aspiring bead worker reproduce some of the techniques. One quibble: it would have been nice to include the artists’ countries of origin just below the photo of their work instead of in the index, saving the reader a lot of flipping back and forth. A list of artists’ Web sites would have been nice, too. (Aug. 7)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781454703167
  • Publisher: Lark Crafts
  • Publication date: 8/7/2012
  • Series: 500 Series
  • Pages: 432
  • Sales rank: 109,270
  • Product dimensions: 7.99 (w) x 8.05 (h) x 1.14 (d)

Meet the Author

Ray Hemachandra is an editor for Lark Jewelry & Beading and the author of numerous 500
Series and Masters Series titles, including 500 Art Quilts, as well as The Penland Book of Glass and Beading with World Beads. He lives in Arden, NC.
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