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Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories held in a bead.
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Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book simple to use. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Choose from traditional materials like paper mache and polymer clay, or opt for new materials such as resins and shrink plastic. Once you've selected your medium, follow the lab instructions for the bead-making technique of your choice. Try a new technique each week! With...
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Work wool magic by rolling it into hard balls, and shaping them into crescents, dying them, or adding metallic fiber. Try papier mćh ̌over wooden beads--especially elegant when done with beautiful Asian rice papers. Coil polymer clay for a real impact, and create faux ivory that's just right for ethnic styles. Turn shiny, polished metal into fancy decorative tubes, and get in the groove with ridged glass beads. You'll find that the simplest techniques...