String Of Blue Beads

In Storyscapes we listen carefully to what South African writers reveal about themselves and their relations to South African space since the democratic transition of 1994. One main focus is the power of stories to uncover contradictory processes and investments of identity and to point readers toward a more meaningful life. Another main focus is the complexities of the post-colonial understanding of South African land, landscape, and space. Space in relation to race, class, and gender identity figures prominently in analyses and comparisons of diverse South African texts, such as Breyten Breytenbach's Dog Heart, André Brink's Imaginings of Sand, as well as the important South African subgenre of the farm novel. Questions of black or hybrid identity are highlighted by confronting older texts with new ones by black and women writers such as A.H.M. Scholtz and E.K.M. Dido. These texts - and a number of Afrikaans texts that are less well-known in the English-speaking world - are set in the wider frameworks of postcolonial criticism and global issues of cultural identity.

After breezing through a history and overview of equipment, the authors emphasize the how-to in such elaborate processes as tubular beaded crochet. Every one of the more than 25 projects focuses on a specific tool or technique, complete with color graphs, a list of materials, size and measurements, a color photo, and diagrams. ...Directions...are presented with plenty of details.” —Booklist.

Make a collection of beautiful bracelets with this book.

Demonstrates basic techniques of braiding, knotting, and weaving and offers patterns for over fifty projects.

Take a wonderful journey into making the four gorgeous beaded peyote panel ornaments in this book with sparkling tassels that drape over a glass ball. Here you will learn with detailed step-by-step instructions as well as colored coded diagrams of how to begin and decrease in flat even count peyote as well as instructions of how to assemble it all together. This is wonderful for the beginner as well as the advanced beader s. These ornaments are breath taking and will be that cherished memory keepsake for years to come. This book will truly inspire confidence and start you on a wonderful beading journey!