Your one-stop source for beading know-how

• Portable package provides beaders with a carry-along reference in a lay-flat format
• Covers every essential beaded jewelry making technique in vivid detail

Jewelry and beading expert Susan Ray, along with dozens of expert jewelry artists, bring you this complete tutorial for making your own jewelry to fit your personal style. Whether you prefer professional and polished, classic and elegant, or casual and comfortable, you will find the designs and information needed to complete your jewelry pieces using this book.

Contains valuable lessons in

• Bead sizing, definitions, weights and charts
• Organizing and caring for your beads
• Preparing findings and closures, found objects and vintage findings
• Creating beads with metal clay, polymer clay, lampwork and more
• Stitching with beads
• Selling your jewelry