In every issue of Beadwork you'll find all-new irresistible necklace designs, must-have bracelet patterns, and can't-miss tips. Explore your favorite techniques such as peyote, right-angle weave, herringbone, and more. PLUS be confident every step of the way with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions.
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Iron Fence Bracelet
Lacy Cushion Beaded Bead • These bold and beautiful beaded beads work up quickly and can be used in a variety of ways. String them with beads to make a statement necklace or hang a tassel through the center and make an ornament. The sky is the limit!
Debora Hodoyer: Style & Soul
TIPS FOR USING SHAPED BEADS
Bithia Bracelet
Precious Diamond Pendant
Orient Express Earrings
Slip Sliding Away Beaded Beads
Crystal Snowflake Beaded Bead
Princess Anjuli Beaded Beads
Peadar Beaded Bead Set
Turban Beaded Beads
Sunlit Wheat Bracelet
La Petite Bouteille Necklace
Pearly Peaks Bracelet
Roll’r Coaster Necklace • Give your great-grandmother’s doily an updated boho look by using decoupage medium to form it into a cylinder shape, then thread your lacy “bead” onto strands of leather.
Vintage Bouquet Necklace • Create a wearable vintage bouquet with leather and crochet flowers layered with antiqued brass filigree and buttons.
Purple Posy Necklace • Create a vintage-looking necklace by combining scraps of leather and lace with a hodgepodge of beads and trinkets in washed-out hues.
Western Wildflower Necklace • This necklace incorporates extra lace flowers from Katie’s wedding dress, lovingly sewn on with her mom nearly twenty years ago. The lace flowers mixed with matte jasper rounds and leather tassels create a statement necklace with a story.
Masquerade Necklace • This fanciful collar hides a secret. Underneath the custom-cut leather flowers lies a lacy costume mask.
techniques
Natural Beauty: American Beads
