Janet Coles Knihy

A comprehensive guide to making jewellery and beading garments and accessories. The book contains useful tips on design, mixing and matching shapes, sizes, textures and colours, as well as a step-by-step photographic guide to specific techniques. A bead catalogue draws from beads the world over.

Explores how beads are made, looks at the areas from which beads originate, and examines how they are used, not only in adornment but as forms of money and as a show of wealth and power