The Complete Book of
Glass Beadmaking
by Kimberly Adams
How to make glass beads cover to cover.
176 Pages
Softcover
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
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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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