Book Review- Bead Tube Jewelry
Nancy Zellers' new book, Bead Tube Jewelry is a collection of projects using little tubes of peyote stitching that are zipped up the edge to create a small tube.
The technique is not new, it's a favorite project for teaching people flat peyote, or for trying out color combinations. What this book does very well is show a lot of ways to use these fast little beaded beads to make jewelry.
It starts with the basics, how to make a bead tube, the tools you'll need for the jewelry and seed bead techniques, including 5 different turnarounds for odd count peyote and how to follow bead charts. All very well explained and illustrated.
The projects are a great mix, because of the versatility of the shape and the wide availability of colors in Delica beads, it's possible to achieve a wide range of effects and styles. The Dragon's Treasure set is elegant and lush with an architectural feel, the Delhi Delight is a colorful lariat that would look wonderful with soft summer dresses. The Bead Tube Soup bracelet shown on the cover would make a fantastic seed bead sampler.
What I like best about this book is that bead tubes can be made one at a time in your own time. Because they work up quickly and are fairly portable, you can make a few a day in between other beading. Then put them together into a project when you have enough made. This book has a lot of good ideas for ways to use them that are fairly simple. It's a great book for people who want to start with seed beads in an easy comfortable way who are more used to stringing than bead weaving. For me, it's a worthwhile book to have for the quick ideas and the patterns for making bead tubes.
You can get this book directly from the publisher at Kalmbah Publishing Co., your local bead store, or by clicking the Amazon.com affiliate link below.
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Kalmbach Publishing Co. provided this review copy of Bead Tube Jewelry to me free of charge.
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The technique is not new, it's a favorite project for teaching people flat peyote, or for trying out color combinations. What this book does very well is show a lot of ways to use these fast little beaded beads to make jewelry.
It starts with the basics, how to make a bead tube, the tools you'll need for the jewelry and seed bead techniques, including 5 different turnarounds for odd count peyote and how to follow bead charts. All very well explained and illustrated.
The projects are a great mix, because of the versatility of the shape and the wide availability of colors in Delica beads, it's possible to achieve a wide range of effects and styles. The Dragon's Treasure set is elegant and lush with an architectural feel, the Delhi Delight is a colorful lariat that would look wonderful with soft summer dresses. The Bead Tube Soup bracelet shown on the cover would make a fantastic seed bead sampler.
What I like best about this book is that bead tubes can be made one at a time in your own time. Because they work up quickly and are fairly portable, you can make a few a day in between other beading. Then put them together into a project when you have enough made. This book has a lot of good ideas for ways to use them that are fairly simple. It's a great book for people who want to start with seed beads in an easy comfortable way who are more used to stringing than bead weaving. For me, it's a worthwhile book to have for the quick ideas and the patterns for making bead tubes.
You can get this book directly from the publisher at Kalmbah Publishing Co., your local bead store, or by clicking the Amazon.com affiliate link below.
Affiliate links in an article provide extra income to me personally. I provide them both as a service and as a way to help fund my own book addiction.
Kalmbach Publishing Co. provided this review copy of Bead Tube Jewelry to me free of charge.
To learn more about BellaOnline's review policy, please check our review policy
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