3D Bead Craft

I have to say that this craft skill holds a great amount of excitement and curiosity for me. My interest was first piqued when my mother in law went to an art and craft fair on the island that she lives on and purchase the most beautiful and interesting bracelet for my daughter. I had never seen anything like it before and have wanted to learn how to make it and similar items ever since I first laid eyes on the piece. After scouring the web I have managed to find a few informative articles that I would like to share the links to. There seem to be a few books on the topic of which I have not yet read any, as well as what looks to be a few really good ones in French.

http://3dbeading.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/3d-beading

http://www.beadjewelrymaking.com/beaded_animal.html

http://beadbanter.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=1160;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;guest=6579443

http://www.squidoo.com/how2beadit

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mk.perles/

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=310847.0


One article specifically was especially interesting although I had to translate the pdf as it was also in French.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mk.perles/paon.pdf


While these creatures and projects are beautiful and I am sure fairly simple to make once you get the hang of it one thing has stood out to me the most in all of the articles and instructions on how to make them and that is just an overall lack of detailed specific instructions. Each set seems to have a lack of the most basic instruction of tieing the project off. Maybe you are supposed to already know or at least that is what they expect. I don't really know although I find it quite frustrating to say the least.