Authentic American Indian Beadwork and How to Do It (eBook)

With 50 Charts for Bead Weaving and 21 Full-Size Patterns for Applique

Pamela Stanley-Millner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-14162-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This start-to-finish guide enables even beginners to create beautiful beadwork based on authentic Native American designs. Step-by-step instructions include diagrams for 71 patterns for bead weaving and applique weaving.

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Craftspeople who admire striking Indian designs can now create beautiful, colorful beadwork originated by the Chippewa, Iroquois, Pawnee, Seminole, Winnebago, and other American Indian tribes. This book is a complete guide to this time-honored handicraft, offering step-by-step instructions, clear diagrams, and 71 tribal designs for two types of traditional bead applications bead weaving and applique beading. You'll find fifty versatile designs charted on graph paper for bead weaving and twenty-one full-size patterns for applique, including transfer instructions and color keys. Easy-to-follow directions tell you how to construct your own bead loom. Choose from a rich array of motifs rendered from authentic American Indian artifacts found in museum collections stars, exciting geometrics, sunbursts, exquisite florals, and much more. Beadcrafting is surprisingly easy to learn, offering hours of enjoyment and satisfaction. Follow the charts to weave belts, headbands, sashes, necklaces, and other eye-catching accessories. Use the applique patterns to decorate leather, denim, and other fabrics for handbags, vests, blouses anything that would be enhanced by a touch of distinctive Indian beadwork. With this inexpensive do-it-yourself book, you can create beautiful projects for yourself and your family and memorable gifts for a fraction of the price you'd pay in a store.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Crafts: Bead Work
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Crafts: Bead Work
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 181 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: adjustable • appliqué • appliqué • applique patterns • appliques • Basics • bead • beaded • beaders • beading techniques • beadweaving • Beadwork • Beginner • Belts • books on appliqués • books on appliqués • books on applique patterns • books on appliques • books on basics • books on beading techniques • books on beads • books on beadworks • books on beginners • books on belts • books on bracelets • books on buttons • books on charts • books on color pictures • books on designs • books on diagrams • books on goodhue • books on graph papers • books on horace • books on jewelries • books on lanterns • books on light shades • books on moccasins • books on native americans • books on pendants • books on pow wows • books on stitches • books on sutton • books on wall hangings • books on weaving patterns • bracelets • Button • Charts • color pictures • Designs • Diagrams • goodhue • graph paper • Horace • Instructional • Jewelry • lantern • learning native • learn native • light shade • Loom • looming • moccasins • Native American • particular pattern • pendants • peyote stitch • pow wow • seed beads • soled • stitches • Stitching • stylized • Sutton • wall hangings • weave patterns • weaving patterns
• ISBN-10: 0-486-14162-4 / 0486141624
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-14162-6 / 9780486141626