Making Glass Beads

With a flame and an inexpensive glass rod you can make your own beads of beauty or make commercial beads more enchanting and striking. Start with the basics -- essential supplies and equipment, and setting up a work station and torch, as well as some safety tips -- before moving on to the projects. Begin with a basic bead, and before long you'll be shaping beads, adding spots, dots, eyes, stripes, and tails. And that's not even all! As you work through the projects and master various tricks, you'll find plenty of room for experimentation and individual creativity, and a whole new direction and approach to the art of bead making.

"Jenkins'' beads are little glass gems made using standard glassworking supplies....She gives...instructions for plain glass "millefiori

(thousand flowers), sculpted beads, and others. Photographs of museum-quality beads...provide an eye-opening look at beads as art." "Library Journal

. ."..launches into the basics...graduating from simple...to the complex...every step of the process is accompanied by color photographs. There is enough detail to make unsuspecting readers into addicts....An excellent introduction."-- "Booklist

. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.