Bead String Book Reviews

A Bead in Time by Lisa Crone includes 35 beading projects plus tips for designing jewelry using inspiration found all around us.

Find some inspiration and soulful beadwork between the pages of this unique beading book.

Designing Jewelry with Semiprecious Beads by Kim Gover focuses on bead stringing jewelry designs and some wire work using gemstone beads.

Create Jewelry Glass: Brilliant Designs to Make and Wear by Marlene Blessing and Jamie Hogsett

Bead Journey: Jewelry from Around the World from Bead Style magazine is loaded with colorful jewelry designs inspired by destinations all over the world including Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim, the Americas, and Europe.

Create Jewelry Stones: Stunning Designs to Make and Wear by Marlene Blessing and Jamie Hogsett shows how to make gorgeous jewelry designs using semi-precious stones.

Simply Modern Jewelry by Danielle Fox inspires beginning jewelry makers to try various jewelry design ideas to make modern and wearable jewelry.

Author Crystal McDougald goes a la natural with her book, Beading from Nature: Creating Jewelry with Stones from the Earth.

Lampwork artists, Stepahnie Sersich, gives us an inside look at the world of glass beads as well as lots of creative ideas for incorporating lampwork and other glass beads into jewelry.

Create Jewelry Crystals by Marlene Blessing and Jamie Hogsett is full of crystal, crystal, and more crystals, plus lots of inspiration and practical jewelry projects.

Cool Jewels: Beading Projects for Teens by Naomi Fujimoto focuses on fashionable projects for teens, but even the young at heart will find much to consider in this beaded jewelry making book.

Margot Potter covers all that glitters and sparkles in this book of jewelry and fashion related projects, Sparkletastic: Dazzling Jewelry and Fashion Projects for the Discriminating Diva.

I review a pearl book from Interweave Press entitled Creating Jewelry: Pearls.

Find out about this books about pearls and pearl jewelry making from Quarry Books' Making Designer Jewelry series.

This book review discusses Get Your Sparkle On by Lindsay Cain, owner of Femmegems.

This book, written by Italian jewelry designer, Donatella Ciotti, has a little for everyone, including some wonderful combinations of techniques and materials.

Bead shops were also the inspiration for author Laura Levaas’ book Beader’s Stash: Designs from America’s Favorite Bead Shops. Levaas invited bead shops from around the world to submit projects for her book, which is designed to showcase the talent of bead shop owners and their employees.

Jewelry designer to the stars, Maya Brenner, writes about jewelry making and creating your own style in her book, Beaded Jewelry: Create Your Own Style.

Jean Campbell's book, Beaded Weddings: 75+ Fabulous Ideas for Jewelry, Invitations, Reception Decor, Gifts, and More, combines the art of jewelry and beading with entertaining.

Find out about Hip to Bead, a jewelry book for young hip beaders or even old hip beaders.

If you find yourself confused by the huge selection of beads out there or you are always on the look out for a good bead reference, then this book by Interweave Press is worth considering.

Find some inspiration and soulful beadwork between the pages of this unique beading book.

Learn how to make 30 different earring designs using Beadwork Creates Earrings, edited by Jean Campbell and published by Interweave Press.

Bead Style magazine has collected the best projects from the first year of publication and packed them all into this new book entitled Easy Beading.

Bead Chic: 36 Stylish Jewelry Projects and Inspired Variations by Margot Potter includes fashionable jewelry projects as well as methods for adapting a design to your own personal taste.

Beading in No Time: 50 Step-by-Step Designs for Beautiful Bead Jewelry by Linda Peterson is packed full of jewelry projects for the bead lover.

Beads are very often referred to by jewelry makers as "eye candy" and so the title of this book, Beadalicious by Sonya Nimri, is right on target for those of us who are enamored with beads!

Inteweave Press offers a book for the new beader in Getting Started Stringing by Jean Campbell.

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon, and Cords by Lorelei Eurto and Erin Siegel mixes interesting stringing media with beads.