Big Book of Indian Beadwork Designs

by Kay Doherty Bennett

Book Overview

Over the centuries, Native Americans have used beadwork to ornament clothing and a wide variety of ceremonial and utilitarian articles. Now you can create colorful, interesting designs of your own with this beadwork design treasury featuring scores of Indian motifs: buffalo, kachinas, eagles, feathers, lightning bolts, and more.
While many of the patterns appear in color-coded charts for beadwork, others can be used in appliqu and embroidery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486402835
• ISBN13: 9780486402833
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

beautiful, but all loom work

There's an enormous variety of seed bead patterns in this book, but they are all for loom or square stitch, no peyote/comanche stitch or brick stitch. I like the book enough to keep for if/when I ever venture into loomwork, but there's nothing I can use now.

a great pattern book

I was so excited when I received this book. There are lots of wonderful patterns to do. It is in my opinion the best bead book I have found so far. thank you...

80 PAGES OF COOL DESIGNS!

It is in black and white, a minor problem for just doing the designs off the pages. But I solved that problem by coloring them in. There are 3-5 designs on most of the pages, not all really Native beadwork but well worth the price for ALL the designs for LOOMERS! It is hard anymore to find a book with so many loom ideas and this one is FILLED with them. Ther are a few small mistakes in a couple patterns but nothing worth complaining about. This is not an instruction book! Be warned you need to know how to do beadwork to use this book. Photo copy the pages so you can work on colors of your own choosing other than the ones offered if you don't like the combinations. It is a book you can get use out of for years!

Great book of designs

I recommend this book because it has a lot of interesting and unique designs. A must for anyone interested in American Indian beadwork.

Great book of designs

I highly recommend this book because it offers a vast array of designs to choose from. Every design is unique and individual and will give your project a one-of-a-kind look.