Fiber & Bead Jewelry: Beautiful Designs to Make & Wear - Softcover

Banes, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402700733 ISBN 13: 9781402700736

Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle, 2002

Synopsis

“Very original...Banes draws on her lifelong interest in found objects and ethnic ornaments... [There are] photos of many of her...necklaces, with diagrammed patterns...unique approach to jewelry design.”—Library Journal. “The results are spectacular...the necklaces become true works of art, not just macramé look-alikes.”—Booklist.

About this title

About the Author:

Helen Banes has given lectures and taught workshops at numerous galleries, museums, schools, and centres, including the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), Textile Museum (Washington DC) and Bead Designers International (Boston). Her work has been featured in Ornament Magazine, Flying Needle, and Threads. Sally Banes is Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theatre History and Dance Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Terpsichore in Sneakers and Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism.

From Library Journal:

For these very original jewelry designs, Banes draws on her lifelong interest in found objects and ethnic ornaments. Her book has photos of many of her bead and fiber necklaces, with diagrammed patterns for the woven fiber parts. This off-loom needle weaving is worked over pins on a foam board in a technique similar to pillow lacemaking. The result is a woven pendant incorporating beads and having a large ethnic ornament as a focal point. This unique approach to jewelry design belongs in art as well as advanced crafts collections.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1402700733
• ISBN 13: 9781402700736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128