Beading With Right Angle Weave

The right angle weave stitch is demystified in this beading handbook. After mastering the basics, crafters can create their own beautiful jewelry with 30 projects that include a trendsetting garnet and carnelian necklace, a bead lace jabot, and a sapphire crystal bracelet. All projects include easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations for both single- and two-needle techniques. Simple pieces for children or beginning beaders are followed by more complex projects that will challenge advanced beaders with three-dimensional explorations of cubes, frames, tablets, and boxes. Each of the projects can be modified and personalized in dozens of ways, allowing beaders to design their own inspiring creations.

Take your beadweaving designs to the next level! Explore an inspired approach to weaving beaded jewelry with Beadweaving Beyond the Basics. Experiment with color and shape with these 24 gorgeous designs from beadweaving teacher and Beadwork contributor Kassie Shaw. In addition to showcasing classic stitches, including Herringbone, Peyote and St. Petersburg, these designs incorporate Kassie's innovative variations on Right Angle Weave--Double Diamond Right Angle Weave, Faux Right Angle Weave and Layered Right Angle Weave. In-depth primers on these new approaches will get you started right away, and the tips for left-handed beaders makes sure everyone can try these designs with ease! Inside, you'll discover a full range of bead shapes such as seed beads, two-hole beads, bicone crystals, bugle beads and lentils, to get the shapes and effects you want, then try them in multiple colorways to create head-turning creations. With your new beadweaving skills, the possibilities are endless! Beadweaving Beyond the Basics is a whole new world of artistic expression!

"Right angle weave is an essential, versatile stitch for creating fantastic beadwork. In Marcia Decoster's Beaded Opulence--the latest entry in Lark Books' Beadweaving Master Class series--the popular beading teacher presents more than 20 magnificent contemporary jewelry projects to make with right angle weave. From the elegant Etruscan Treasure necklace to the sophisticated Fanfare bracelet, Marcia's skill-building projects will teach you how to create supple beaded fabric, beaded ropes, shaped curves, and embellished layers. Complete with an inspiring gallery of right angle weave work, this beautifully photographed book will enable you to make spectaular piecs of eye-catching complexity and depth"--Back cover.

Right angle weave is one of the most versatile beading stitches. Gidez shows you how to become a master of the stitch, with clear instructions accompanied by diagrams with easy-to-follow thread paths. Each chapters covers the basics of a single skill, followed by projects that put the new technique into practice.

Right-Angle Weave follows Peyote Stitch as the second title in the Stitch Workshop series. In Right-Angle Weave, readers will find over 25 Bead&Button projects using this stitch characterized by repeating small squares. Along with detailed step-by-step directions, the basics section in this book is expanded to give readers a more thorough understanding of the stitch, including background and history. Readers also see that right-angle weave can take on different looks depending on bead size. With small beads, the stitch looks like fabric. With larger beads, the look becomes more geometric. This of course makes the stitch incredibly versatile.

Readers will learn to turn inexpensive seed beads into one-of-a-kind jewelry. Ten basic bead stitches are covered.

Beader's Guide: Right Angle Weave is a handbook style collection of 25 projects and techniques all focused around right-angle weave. Similar to a previous stitch workshop book, it begins with a guide to the stitch itself. It then continues to the specific project which will contain more detailed illustrations, patterns and instructions for making various types of right-angle weaves, including the cubic right-angle weave (which was not thoroughly covered in the previous stitch workshop books). Take full advantage of all the valuable information regarding the best tools to use, which beads are ideal, and the various color combinations you can use for right-angle weaves. What makes the right-angle and cubic right-angle weaves a consistently popular stitch for many beaders is its wildly versatile and dimensional nature. It is sure to keep everyone, from advanced beginners to more intermediate bead stitchers engaged and busy, making it a great value.

This book shows how to go beyond the basics of beading to create three-dimensional objects such as bowls, baskets, and figures, as well as jewelry and accessories. Full instructions for 20 projects are included. 400 illustrations, 150 in color.