Make your own beautiful beaded flowers and corsages, using the traditional craft of French beading. The techniques are made easy in this ebook, with helpful step-by-step instructions, detailed photos and comprehensive video demonstrations by prizewinning beader Katie Dean. It's the next best thing to having the author standing by your side as you learn. Katie demonstrates some of the more advanced techniques of French beading. She then teaches you how to use them to make individual flowers, including cornflowers, anthurium and morning glory, along with the other elements needed to make corsages, such as sculptured leaves, and rosemary. There are instructions for assembling the flowers into corsages in four designs that can be worn in a variety of ways: traditional buttonhole, wrist corsage, handbag corsage.The gallery gives more designs for inspiration, using flowers from this ebook and from Katie's first ebook, Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets. These beautiful beaded flowers will make a truly unique accessory for your special day and will last forever, so you can treasure the memories.
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Publication Date: 01 Nov 2018
Publisher: Vivebooks/Rainbow Disks Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781912911011
About Katie Dean
Katie Dean is a prizewinning beader teacher and author who sells designs and kits though her company Bead Flowers and has published her own beading books. Katie has won beading competitions in the UK and USA most notably twice winning the Beadwork biennial competition. At the British Bead Awards 2010 she won Best in Show; in 2012 she won a second and third place. In 2009 she reached the semi-finals of the International Swarovski 'Create Your Style' competition. In 2014 Katie became editor of the UK's leading beading magazine Bead and Jewellery. She has filmed TV shows for the Craft Channel and Jewellery Maker TV and since 2015 has been a member of the internationally renowned design team the Beadsmith Inspiration Squad.