The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking

by Kimberly Adams

How to make glass beads cover to cover.

176 Pages

Hardcover

Full Color

Every eye-catching photo in this superb guide to a popular craft will inspire, instruct, and attract beadmakers. It's beautiful, easy to follow, and one-of-a-kind. Starting with the basics: how to light the torch, wind and cool the bead, and shape the glass into barrels, cones, and discs: intermediate techniques, using foil, leaf and mica flakes: To advanced projects like floral and sculptural beads and encasing faces. An absolute must have for all beadmakers!

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Table of Contents

Getting Started Equipment Tools Supplies Safety Equipment and Clothing Setting Up and Working in your Studio Making The First Bead Prepping the Mandrels Lighting the Torch Heating Glass in the Flame Regions of the Flame Heating Glass to a Molten State Finishing Up The Ends of Beads Winding the First Bead Varying the Bead's Shape Finishing Up The Ends of Beads Marver Method Flame Annealing and Cooling Annealing in the Kiln Removing Beads from the Mandrel Annealing Cooled Beads From Basic to Beautiful Beads Barrel Beads Rounded Oblong Beads Cones Bi-cones Pressed Beads Disc Beads Groovy Patterned Beads Alternative Patterned Surfaces Surface Decoration Applying Frit Making Dots Positioning Dots Precisely Shaping Beads Adding Color & Decoration Gallery Intermediate Techniques Full Coverage Enameled Stringers Enameled Patterns Boiled Enamel Sifted Enamel Engraved Enamel Enamel Paint Applying Enamels Glass That Changes in the Flame Working with Frit in a Reduction Flame Reduction Stringers Anice White Glass Intense Black Glass Encasing Beads Altering Bead Surfaces with Non-Glass Materials Mica Powders Etching Intermediate Shaping and Sculpting Techniques Creating Furrows Cutting Hot Glass Sculpting with a Graphite Paddle Pinching Glass with Tweezers Making Large-Hole Beads Adding Metals to Beads Leaf Foils Silver Leaf Stringers Silver Shavings and Fine Silver Wire Copper Tubing Making a Gravity Bead Applying Millifiori Working with Dichroic Glass Gallery Advanced Techniques Fuming Charging The Rod Fuming a Bead Hollow Beads Wrapped Hollow Beads Cleaning Hollow Beads and Forms Sculptural Techniques Winged Hearts Spiral Seashell Aegean Urn Making Decorative Canes Encased Ribbon Cane Pulling the Cane Simple Layered Millifiori Complex Ribbon Cane Letter And Number Canes Complex Picture Cane Making Floral Beads Making Floral Canes Encased Cane Creating The Flowers Gallery

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