Mastering The Glass Bead - DVD

"Mastering the Glass Bead" is a wonderful beginner's guide to creating beads using a simple torch head! Karen Stavert travels the country teaching her easy-to-master bead making techniques. No you can learn from the convenience of your own home at your own pace. In her inspiring step-by-step instructional dvd Karen teaches how to create a multitude of different beads. Features the Fireworks Torch Head #425701. 40 minutes.

Torch Time: Glass Beadmaking - DVD

Torch Time with Molly Heynis A Complete Introduction to Glass Beadmaking A wonderful companion to the Hot Head Bead Making Kit #7335, or the Hot Head Torch #7329. Learn proper studio set-up, safety, tool usage (including getting the most from your Hot Head torch), and bead making techniques such as working with frit, dichroic, millefiori, twisties, stringers and more. 85 minutes.

Contemporary Lampworking Volumes 1 & 2

Best Seller!Widely praised by instructors across the U.S. and abroad, these two volumes form an encyclopedia of flameworking techniques. Features mostly black and white photography, with a number of full color pages showing finished items to inspire and encourage. A two volume set!Project titles and artist credit: "Untitled" pendant by Stevi Belle, "From The Inside Out" by Frederick Birkhill, "Crab-Coral Reef" by Ryan Higgins, "Iris Nouveau Bead" by Kristen Frantzen Orr, "Hollow Fish Beads" by Taeko Yamada.

1000 Glass Beads

A gorgeous book with tons of color photography that is sure to inspire and awe every beadmaker and glass lover. Jewelry magazine Lapidary Journal refers to it as "The ultimate tour through lampwork heaven. A must-have book for anyone who loves art, beads, lampworking, or simply marvels at creative genius." Filled with hundreds of pages of beautifully photographed lampwork beads by the most exciting bead makers in the world, you will get a thousand ideas for making and wearing incredible beads. By Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader. 408 pages, full color.Millefiori beads by Yoshiko Shiiba. Lampworked bead created with Mica powder by Karan Dotson. Fish by Debbie Crowley. Necklace by Amy Johnson. Frog bead by Akoko Isono.

Encase It!

Better Beadmaking in Your HandsEncasing techniques are essential for creating highly finished art beads. Deanna Griffin Dove, artist and author of popular flameworking books, shows you how! Learn to execute a wide range of techniques guaranteed to stretch your skills and improve your art. Featuring 72 full color pages, rich array of photos, easy-to-follow directions, new insights and thorough explanation. Novice and advanced beadmakers alike will love this informative guide. Images below from book.Shown below are samples of the close-up step by step images found throughout the book. Also shown are encased beads by artists Deanna Griffin Dove, Heather Ferman and Julie Ferguson.

Glass Beads

Tips, Tools and Techniques for Learning the CraftLearn safe and easy bead making techniques while creating 22 projects. Concise instructions and large step-by-step photographs demonstrate how to make various shapes and sizes, from round to rectangle with techniques for creating dots, petals, making "twisties" and even hollow beads. Advance your skills with additional instruction using stringers, reduction frits, enamels and metal leaf to add design elements. Includes a trouble shooting section, brief history of glass bead making and tips for setting up your workshop.Projects in the additional images are by author and artist Louise Mehaffey.

Making Handmade Lampwork Beads & Glass Jewelry

This book teaches you everything you need to know about making decorative lampwork glass beads – and how to use them to create custom jewelry! Features full explanation of bead making tools and materials, with instructions on how to create dots, feathers, swirls, encasing and more through step-by-step instructions. The full-color photographs throughout illustrate how easy it is to make handmade glass beads and how to turn them into wearable works of art. Images below from book. Authors/Artists: Hava and Danny Ronat.

Penland Book Of Glass

Master Classes in Flamework TechniquesDedicated to showcasing the stunning work of artists from across the globe, this gorgeous book focuses on ten top contemporary flameworkers. All leaders in their field, they offer a personal perspective on their influences and work. Each one demonstrates a particular process from surface techniques, including methods of sandblasting and adornments, to paperweights and glass cages. Hardcover, 232 pages.

You Can Make Glass Beads

Easily Create Beads with Simple InstructionLearn how to make dazzling glass beads, stringers, millefiori,and more. Includes step-by-step directions from forming a basic bead to feathering, poking, overwraps, pinching, snipping, and using gold and silver foil leaf. Concise diagrams and clear photographs (see examples below) make it easy to follow along and successfully start creating your own beads.Project below by author and artist Cindy Jenkins.

More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Glass Beadmaking

The title of this book says it all! Contains the most informative and complete guide to glass bead making we've seen to date. Covers all aspects of glass bead making. Includes sections on: introduction to glass beadmaking; torches and gas systems; lampworking tools; kilns and glory holes; glass; flameworking techniques; millefiori and mosaic cane; wound beads; other lampworked glass objects; blown beads; drawn beads; press molded beads; fused beads; pate de verre beads; annealing beads; finishing beads; safety. Color sections with black and white illustrations throughout. 314 pages. Project below from book by artist and author James Kervin.

Making Glass Beads

Master the Basics of Making Glass BeadsLearn how to wind round beads and form them into cylinders, bicones, disks, and more. Detailed instructions and magnificent photos, along with scores of valuable tips and tricks lead beginning bead makers through an awesome array of techniques, making this one of the best guides to glass beading ever. The creative journey begins with making a simple bead; proceeds to easy variations, such as overwraps and raked patterns; and ends exquisitely with beads shimmering with different metals and featuring millefiori, sculpting, and hollow forms. Step-by-step photos and clear instruction guide you to creating fantastic, hand-made glass beads.

Beads of Glass: The Art and the Artists

This gorgeous book by Cindy Jenkins has plenty of color photography that shows the work of fine beadmakers from all over the world. Browse images and inspiring bios of 43 profiled artists. Then follow along with the artists as the book provides step-by-step directions, instructional photos in full color, and tips on many basic and intricate techniques. You can learn how to paint on beads, create a twisted bead, stencil powders, and precisely control your dot placement, to name a few. We're sure this collection will inspire budding beadmakers as well as professional artisans.152 full color pages. Hardcover.Images below from book. Artist from left to right: Kristen Frantzen Orr; Janice Peacock; Al Janelle; Pati Walton; Kate Fowle Meleney.

Passing The Flame - 3rd Edition

"The most important book on lampwork bead making of our time." - Paula S. Morgan, Beadwork Sept 2003This revised edition is a fantastically detailed instruction book by Corina Tettinger that will inspire you, then help you achieve even the most advanced beads! Aspiring beginners, experienced lampworkers, and lovers of glass art alike are sure to be inspired by the depth of information, the vibrant demonstrations and the design possibilities presented by Corina.Using this comprehensive volume, which features hundreds of colorful photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions (see below), you will feel as if you have an expert private tutor beside you, guiding your hands and eyes through the design and creation of beautiful glass beads.Hardcover with over 200 color pages.

Complete Book of Beadmaking

Bead Ideas Start HereEvery eye-catching photo in this colorful reference will inspire you with creative ideas. Learn how to create all the most popular types of beads, plus the newest, most innovative techniques. Instruction begins with the basics: how to light the torch, wind and cool the bead, and shape the glass into barrels, cones, and discs. As your skills develop, use this reference to expand your horizons by experimenting with enamel; using mica dust to form an iridescent sheen; and applying silver, gold, and copper leaf to layers of glass. The most advanced projects are truly remarkable, from floral and sculptural beads to beads that encase images of stars, rainbows, and faces.

Flameworking

Learn to manipulate hot glass to make beautiful flameworked shapes and objects that can be assembled into larger sculptural and functional pieces. Techniques are explained so even a beginner can understand and learn. This groundbreaking book provides detailed and easy to follow exercises that are brought to life by sophisticated projects. Lavish illustrations capture the entire artistic process; includes a discussion of the different types of glass you can choose from, as well as tools and safety equipment. Begin by "melting" a ball at different points of the rod; flatten the ball into a disc; and form other shapes like hearts, wings, butterflies, and the moon. Turn those designs into jewelry, hanging sculptures, and stirrers. Fuse glass to glass, make a candleholder, and try several methods for adding color. 176 pages, all in color. Softcover.All projects in the additional images are by the author and artist Elizabeth Mears.

Vitreous Painting Techniques

Learn to Create Painted Glass BeadsMaster lampworker Bronwen Heilman shares her secrets for intriguing painted beads. Features a wealth of new information on glass painting and capping beads.Part of the popular Jim Kervin series of books on contemporary glass beadmakers and their craft. The books introduce readers to a number of the best and most interesting contemporary glass beadmakers in the country.Projects below by artist Bronwen Heilman.