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Making Beads with Stained Glass Remnants,
Part II - The Video
Kate's second video in this series continues her entertaining and informative journey into the world of glass bead making. You will learn how to make a tree bead, space bead, small bottle, how to grind and use frit, and other techniques. Explore with her again the use of stained glass remnants in bead making.

Kate's ability to teach with reassurance, and to inspire confidence in new bead makers, makes this video an empowering experience.
Item #303V. $39.95. Check Box to Order

Making Beads with Stained Glass Remnants,
Part I - The Video
Kates 1.5 hour video is an entertaining and informative journey through a bowl of stained glass remnants. You will learn how to cut glass, make stringers and latticcino and create a series of of simple beads. Kates calm and reassuring style will demystify this alternative way of making beads. Think of all those stained glass offcuts just waiting to be recycled! Kate uses only spectrum glass in this video.
Item #302V. $39.95. Check Box to Order

Basic Wirework for Bead Jewelry - The Video

This 70 minute video is designed as a companion to Kate's book of the same title. The video covers the making of earrings, pins and necklaces, combining beads and chain without soldering. She thoroughly covers the choosing of tools, explains the different guages of wire relative to their various uses and how to use clasps and other findings. The camera follows her hands closely through the different jewelry projects, and she explains what she's doing in her clear English voice. The video closes with a demonstration of drilling beads and lampwork bead making.
Item #301V. $39.95. Check Box to Order

Basic Wirework for Bead Jewelry

A simple and comprehensive guide to classical wirework... The assembly of jewelry using any bead or object with a hole. In 96 pages with 115 illustrations, it provides an introductory course in Kate's "closed circuit" technique of making earrings, necklaces and pins. It is an A to Z tutorial, from selecting tools and the correct wire through to the finishing touches which distinguish professional quality work from amateur hobbyist results. An excellent companion book for wirework teachers.
Item # 101B. $14.00 Check Box to Order

How To Be Successful in the Bead Jewelry Business

Packed with practical advice on all aspects of designing and selling bead jewelry. You are guided in selecting the work space, whether it be at home or in a studio workshop, participating in art shows and fairs and selling through stores, galleries and catalogues. This 140 page illustrated book also helps in designing ahead for the next season and targeting your market. Kate Drew-Wilkinson has written a regular how-to column in the Lapidary Journal for the past 5 years, and is well qualified to help new jewelry designers on their journey to success.
Item #102B. $24. Check Box to Order

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Kate Drew-Wilkinson Designs
P.O Box 1803 Bisbee, AZ 85603
(520)432-7818

For more information please contact Kate Drew-Wilkinson at beads@theriver.com