American Indian Beadwork
W. B.(Walter Ben) Hunt and J.F. Burshears
c1951 Bruce Pub. Co. New York, NY
63 pgs; 13 in color. Loom, rosettes, peyote, diagrams
$8.95 at TSI/Washington

Beaded Amulet Purses
Nicolette Stessin 1994
Available from Beadworld Publishing
P.O. Box 99582, Seattle, WA 98199
Instructions for 7 purses using different techniques: tubular lattice, tubular peyote, flat peyote, loom and single-needle right angle weave. Also a gallery of 27 beautiful works by bead artists. Good clear instructions on how to do the different stitches including decreasing on the sides, and how to read the charts. The book is also sprinkled with work tips.
$18.95 at Fire Mountain Gems/Oregon

Beadworking With Today's Material
Loren and Donna Woerpel
Native Indian style bead work with peyote and loom beadwork and more b/w 30 pages $3.96

Beady Eyed Women's Guide to Exquisite Beadwork:
A Peyote Stitch Primer
Vicki Star and Jeanette Cook 1994
18 pages $16.95 ppd

Contemporary Beadwork I: Counted and Charted Patterns for Flat Peyote Stitch Diane Fitzgerald
86 page book contains peyote stitch instructions, 50 repeating patterns which may be worked from the graph, similar to counted cross stitch.
$19.95

Contemporary Beadwork II: Sea Anemone Beadwork
Diane Fitzgerald
Sea Anemone beadwork is the re-invention of a very old type of loomed beadwork which has rows of fringe resembling a sea anemone. Easy step-by-step instructions to allow any beader to learn this technique
$7.95

Fearless Beadwork: Improvisational Peyote Stitch
Joyce J. Scott 1994 IncogNegro Productions Available from: Visual Studies Workshop 31 Prince St. Rochester, NY 14607 1-716-442-8676
Warning: Because the book is in comic-book style hand-drawn and hand-lettered with very few photos it's not the world's easiest teaching tool. But for someone who's got basic peyote stitch down, it is an *asTOUNding!!* inspiration and kick in the butt. --Jo Falcon
28 pages (4 in color) $22.50 ppd.

Flat Peyote Stitch
Michael White Owl 1993
White Owl Publications, Inc. 124 N. Norris Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719
60 pgs b/w illustrations, peyote graph paper
$19.95 COD
Very complex designs often include interlaced lines, such as Celtic knots and Islamic patterns...over 200 complex graphed patterns...detailed instructions -- Bead and Button.

Innovative Beaded Jewelry Techniques
Gineke Root 1994
Lacis
Instructions for the incredible spiral necklace.
This book is NOT for beginners. Peyote stitch understanding is required. 56 pages $16.50 ppd

Peyote At Last!
(Subtitle: a peyote beadwork primer)
Barbara Grainger 1993, 2nd edition
Barbara L. Grainger P.O. Box 5264
Oregon City, OR 97045
71 pages illustrated $17.95 ppd.

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