Bead-Making Lab: 52 explorations for crafting beads from polymer clay, plastic, paper, stone, wood, fiber, and wire

This is a fabulous book. It's not only fun to look at - great layout, great pictures - but it is chock full of great instruction. It has information about how to make beads in so many mediums! It also has some great articles from artists. So much fun. The book gives all the materials lists and tips you will need. I can't wait to try them all.

This another Great Book from Heather Powers! Easy to follow using basic materials that you already have. Love that it didn't start off with a 3 page list of supplies. She really encourages you to use what you have on hand or that's really easy and cheap to find but mostly, she encouraged me to use my creative skills to make some or all of the projects. I love that she touched on using every medium available throughout the book.She's always been a favorite of mine and I hope you enjoy this book too.

If you are just learning techniques this is an excellent book. Lots of great ideas and detailed instructions. I particularly loved the idea of making beads out of wire. Very interesting texture for beads. And while I make paper beads already, this book showed a technique for making them larger and fatter that will give my necklaces dimension. An excellent reference book for the jewelry designer's shelf.

Beautifully photographed, which is a must for me to give a crafting/jewelry/bead design book five stars. It's also exactly what I was looking for, as my son and I want to make beads together as a joint project. The projects are attainable and easy to understand, and I'm pleased with how many projects are packed in the book. Love it!

I received a copy as a gift. Really, was very surprised as I've not made beads, but her instructions seem very thorough and she points to the work of other bead artists as well. A wonderful resource of bead making with several kinds of materials.As primarily a knitter, I thought of a few reasons a knitter may wish to make beads in my blog, where I posted a video book review:[...]

Heather Powers is a great teacher!! I wish this book had been available years ago as it shows how to make just about any bead you will want. The projects are Fun as well. THANK YOU heather:)

So many beautiful beads and ideas! I bought this book along with other polymer clay jewelry books and although this one has projects that require different mediums, it has become my favorite one.

I love that there are Soo many bead project ideas.

Bel libro con tante idee facilimente realizzabili. Anche per chi nn capisce l'inglese il libro è utile in quanti ci sono molte immagini che spiegano il lavori. Molte perle realizzate con i fogli che in forno si rimpiccoliscono.

Un libro veramente pieno zeppo di idee per creare perle e perline in qualsiasi materiale, dal polymer clay al legno passando per vetro, cuoio, carta, plastica... Illustrazioni colorate e ampie. E ora passiamo ai difetti due punti alcune delle idee sono troppo costose, i materiali sono difficili da trovare, e le fotografie che arricchiscono le spiegazioni non sono sempre chiare e facili da seguire punto nel complesso un libro che forse non acquisterei di nuovo ,il prezzo non vale il contenuto