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| The Beader's Color Palette: 20 Creative Projects and 220 Inspired Combinations for Beaded and Gemstone Jewelry | 
 enlarge | Author: Margie Deeb
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 29050
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 0.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0823004740
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.582
EAN: 9780823004744
ASIN: 0823004740
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
Capture the colors of the world with 220 distinctive palettes * Priceless source of color inspiration * Create 20 step-by-step projects * Gallery of finished jewelry by the author and other artists Confused by color? Don’t be. Get The Beader’s Color Palette, a priceless resource for beaders seeking inspiration for their jewelry designs. Author Margie Deeb presents 220 palettes inspired by five diverse themes, along with examples of finished jewelry and 20 step-by-step projects that interpret those themes. From the four elements (air, fire, water, and earth), to artists’ palettes (from ancient Egyptian through modern art), from world cultures (including Latin America, India and Tibet, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East) to environments (rainforests, the Southwest, the Mediterranean), to the natural world (marine life, birds, insects)--these palettes capture the essence of countless human experiences and dreams. Beginners will love the basics section on off-loom stitches, loom weaving, and stringing; more advanced beaders will be inspired to take on the wide world of beautiful color.
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 Lovely pictures, great information, gorgeous color palettes, what more can a beader want? October 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Margie Deeb hits a home run with The Beader's Color Palette, a lush 192 page book full of inspiration, color palettes and jewelry projects. The book opens with an introduction followed by brief sections on how to read the palettes and creating palettes. Margie then jumps right into five gorgeous chapters entitled, The Elements, Artists' Historical Palettes, Cultures of Our World, This Gorgeous Planet, Living Color. The book ends with a chapter on inspiration and techniques including a gallery full of lovely artisan made beaded jewelry. The jewelry projects are rated which I found very helpful. Margie includes the inventory/color number of the Delica seed beads used in the projects. If you're looking to create the jewelry exactly as Margie has written them, this is just the information you'll need to make an exact replica. If you just like a particular color, you'll have the inventory number so you can get the beads in the color you desire, a detail not always available in a jewelry project book.
Lovely pictures, great information, gorgeous color palettes, what more can a beader want?
Wonderful use of history, culture, fantasy in regards to making the perfect colored piece of jewelry! August 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those of you that are hesitant about this book, please review the "Search Inside this Book" link underneath the book cover image again. As you can see from the table of contents, the glory of this book IMHO comes from Deeb's use of historical color combinations and designs, to cultural variations, and fantasy. Included are natural stones from the earth and representing the elements (earth, water, air, fire) - not just Delicas as Deeb is so fond of using (with the appropriate color numbers listed for the projects and recommendations). This focus is very different than other beader books and much appreciated as many jewelers often focus on cultural, historical, etc. when developing their own designs. Unfortunately only 20 of the designs are discussed in depth so one can mimic the design, but there are soooooo many other wonderful images of jewelry designs that add to the creativity pathway for all beaders to begin from - not to duplicate! So I really consider this more of a book that compliments Deeb's earlier book on color (using primarily Delicas) and a necessary reference book for all serious jewelry designers to have and use. A true classic book that will definitely withstand the test of time in regards to design and color.
Brilliant for Beaders August 19, 2008
The Beader's Color Palette by Margie Deeb (Watson-Guptill US $24.95; $27.59 CAN) mixes beads, brains, and brilliance. Beads, of course, refers the the fact that this is a book for beaders. Brains relates to the fact that you will need to use your brain - in a good way - to get the full use of this text. Brilliance refers to the amazing (in many cases jaw-dropping) jewelry designs packed between almost 200 pages that make up the book. Read the rest of my review here: http://jewelrymaking.about.com/od/beadbooks/a/072608.htm
 Great book!! July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent, high quality book! I'm thrilled at the color palettes and the BIG photos!
My only criticism is that the type size, especially for the project materials, is microscopic. And in some places, the type is even a very light color, making it even more difficult to read. As a graphic designer myself, I'm not sure of the reasoning for this.
At any rate, I guess I'll get some new glasses 'cause I know I'll have this book around for years!
Inspirational Photos July 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't find the color palettes very helpful, but the photos of the jewelry are excellent for ideas for my own beadwork.
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