BEAD DESIGNER LINKS: (right now these are just some of the designers and cab makers listed already in connection with my designs. More will be added later)
You can buy most of these books either directly from the author or from Powell's online
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Jennie Might : bead designer, author of four, or is it five, books of needlecase designs and small quilt pattern designs. All terrific books!
Barbara Ann Carroll : wonderful very modest bead artist, author of three BEADERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! books of highly original patterns with subtle color shadings and one of my favorite cabochon artists in the world. Be sure and go look at Barbara's cab necklaces when you go to her book page.
Suzanne Cooper : Bead Diva and designer supreme, author of loads of wonderful pattern books, her web page is full of information, designs, and great links for beaders and stained glass workers
Margie Deeb : Designer and author of two books--OUT ON A LOOM, full of loomed designs, and most recently, the marvelous and absolutely necessary THE BEADER'S GUIDE TO COLOR
Patti Large' :email Patti and tell her how wonderful her work is. She did all the beadwork on one page of this website!
Rita Sova :most recently known as the bead czarina of Bead-Patterns, CEO in charge of beady talent and other stuff at Sova Enterprises, Rita is not only an innovative and HELPFUL businesswoman but also a terrific bead designer, teacher and author. See her personal books and designs here.
Larkin Van Horn amazing fiber artist and maker of wonderful clothing, patterns, and other fiber artwork, including some spectacular bead embroidered pieces. Her website is a real treat and her very unassuming looking book, Beadwork for Fabric Arts (Larkin's Encyclopedia of Bead Stitches) is clear and inspiring, with nice color pix in the middle.
Paula Adams she has out several books but the one I use almost constantly is the one for bezeling cabochons in fascinating ways using large beads as well as seed or delica beads.
ONLINE BEAD SOURCES AND SOURCES FOR MY PATTERNS
Copper Coyote Beads: great online store of beads, especially delicas and other Japanese beads, and books as well as individual patterns like MINE!
Bead-Patterns.com: absolutely wonderful site with thousands of patterns from hundreds of designers available primarily for download of pdfs. Also now offering select bead supplies and books. Designer Rita Sova's brainchild and her family's business. All of my patterns which are for sale are available in pdf form here, as well as my book, BEADTIME STORIES.
Cindy's Crafts: Great online store (I think she has a storefront too) from the Bead Talk bead mom, Cindy Tipton. She carries all sorts of bead supplies and is my friend Patti Large's favorite source for new bead books. Also carries individual patterns like MINE!
CABOCHON SOURCES (don't you dare bid against me on all the ones I want from these guys
Steve Kaczmarek The Indianaglassman has an amazing variety and artistry to his cabs. I have scads of them.
Patti Eastman Very fine cabs, artistically done.
Mijo : specializes in opals but I have obtained some wonderful rainbow calsilica from him
Where on Earth: a random selection of cabs in a wide range of colors and shapes. Heidi has kindly posted a photo of Fairy Berry Bog on her site to illustrate how I used the dichroic cabs I mostly got from her.
Katerina Kotinski--This lady has an astoundingly versatile site full of all kinds of beadwork
Aurora Matthews The editor of the great online beading magzine Beadaholics Quarterly is getting back her chops after a long fight with cancer and related ailments. Her site has lots of cool stuff new beaders may have missed out on.
Rosanne Andreas aka The Beaded Phoenix: Rosanne is the creator of the extremely useful bead reference poster and booklet sold in beadstores everywhere. She also has some very cool beadwork on her site.
Chalaedra: Beaded LegendsThis lady has another really versatile site full of lots of eye candy.
Frieda Bates: This incredible artist has been one of my personal bead idols since I first saw her work in Beads to Buckskins magazines. Nowadays Frieda not only creates her gorgeous Southwestern inspired split loom necklaces for which she is justly famous, but works in several other bead and glass related mediums as well including dichroic glass, wirework, macrame and anything else she takes a notion to do. This site contains some of her more classic work.
Bonnie Brooks: Bonnie is the secret weapon of many of us who produce our own bead books--she's a super layout artist as well as a marvelous beader.
Barbara Elbe: Barbara is another early bead idol--her books of earring and amulet bag patterns have inspired many beaders and bead designers.
Brenda Whitehead: She does fantastic fantasy designs, among others, and is the author of several bead books