A Bead Primer
Elizabeth Harris
This handbook explains the three principle beadmaking techniques: winding, drawing, and molding. The section on wound beads describes both out-of-furnace and over-the-lamp methods; the manufacture of eye beads and millefiori beads; and trailed, inlaid, crumbled, textured, and metal foil decoration. The sections on drawn and molded beads are similarly detailed. Additional sections discuss other beadmaking techniques, special finished and bead identification.
--BeadZip/Virginia 30 pages $7

Contemporary Glass Beadmakers Catalogue
The Bead Museums first color catalogue featuring the work of 32 contemporary glass beadmakers.
- The Bead Museum Catalog $6.75

Lampwork Beads-The Book
Alice Foster Zimmerman
A 26-page booklet with illustrations that show the basics of lampworking. Lot of good information.
-The Bead Museum Store $13.95

More than You Ever Wanted to Know about Glass Beadmaking
James Kervin c1994
James Kervin, Glass Wear Studios
1197 Sherry Way, Livermore CA 94550-5745
214 pages illustrated $40.00

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