Beadwork

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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Beautiful Beads

Beadwork

cool stuff

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