Product Description

French beading is a simple yet lovely art, beautifully described in this book, and illustrated in colour with more than 70 close-up photographs that show you how to "grow" a garden of 30 flowers with delicate seed beads. Forty additional illustrations present the exact placement for each particular flower part. Just string the beads onto wires and bend them into realistic, three-dimensional shapes; a helpful introductory section explains all the basic techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152664 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

The start of an obession...
As the first french-beaded flower book I bought, I found this book easy to follow. It has a wide range of patterns, from those taking very little time (relatively) to ones that scare the life out of me (the wisteria, oh my god!).

Carol covers all of the techniques, both main ones (eg basic frame) and variations of the themes (eg split basic and reverse basic). Each pattern lists what materials are needed and what techniques are used.

The one downside of this book for some readers/crafters is that it is descriptive rather than pictorial, so there aren't many technique diagrams/pictures. However as I prefer this method of learning and happened to buy another book on French Beaded Flowers that was pictorial at the same time (I much preferred Carol's book to this one), I found "The Art of French Beaded Flowers" easy to use and has lead me down the path of a new obsession!

All in all a cracking book and a great hobby...