50 Beaded Bracelets: Step-by-Step Techniques for Beautiful Beadwork Designs

The best collection of beautiful, bracelet patterns I have ever seen (and I have three dozen books at least). These are not the ordinary bracelet either; they're elegant, but not ostentatious. Nearly all patterns show at least one alternate colorway, and usually more than one. Patterns are clearly laid out and easy to follow. Yes, these were previously published in Beadwork, but they are the best of the best and it is nice to have them all together.

Nice patterns! Beading books are harder to find these days and buying patterns individually can be cost prohibitive. This is a nice book with several patterns I plan to make. Happy with my purchase!

I subscribed to both of the magazines at one time - sadly, both magazines became forever defunct at the beginning of the pandemic - not very many beading magazines left now. The ones that are left have pretty cruddy designs and virtually no skill level or imagination - not like Bead and Button and Beadwork were. When I bought the book - I found a lot of the designs that were already in the magazines - but this had them practically in one place! They may not all be for beginners - but they are wonderful. If you've never subscribed to the magazines in question - if you bought this book - you'll get a great excerpt of what these magazines were.

Great direction

It has so many interesting items for me to make. It also has given me a lot of ideas. It is a fantastic book.

The book is wonderful, I love making bracelets so to have 50 of the best ones from my favourite magazine Beadwork, is just marvelous . The only complaint I have is with the packaging - it came in one of those white amazon padded envelopes which made it possible for my lazy postperson to shove it in my tiny mailbox. so by the time I collected the mail a few hours later, my book was already buckled.

A detailed and informative book for anyone wishing to be inspired to improve their bead weaving skills.

Beautiful book! A substantial, well written and photographed collection of beautiful bracelet projects! I honestly was so pleasantly surprised when it came - I was expecting a cheap “booklet” type publication. Now I need to find more time to make some of these beautiful bracelets, there are so many I’d like to make for myself and gifts!

What a gorgeous book. I bought this for my sister so hopefully she will find it the same..:) it came very quickly as well.

Absolutely beautiful bracelets. Ok, there's an odd one or two that I didn't fancy but generally speaking the book is brilliant. Not one for complete beginners, you need a little bit of experience to try some of these patterns and a huge amount of experience to try the super complicated ones. Now, here is the downside for people like me. I'm past beginner and fairly experienced but nowhere near super experienced but having read virtually all the patterns, I realised none of the patterns are out of my reach for my level of expertise... BUT, I'm English, I live in the UK and I want to buy from UK outlets but think most of the patterns are written by Americans so not only do they call their beads something entirely different to the English but virtually all the beads called for can't be found in this country.... that is unless you can work out the language issue regarding bead names. There is no conversion chart for this anywhere in the book. For instance the Americans say '3x6mm 2-hole Brick Bead' but the closest I can find in the UK has to be the '2x5mm 2-hole Tila bead' or the the '2x5mm 2-hole1/4 tile bead'. Two completely different names and completely different sizes. I spent the whole day yesterday searching the internet for beads that just do not exist in this country. If they do then they are called something different here or there are many many mistakes in the materials list for each pattern. I even looked abroad but the beads called for just do not exist so where the designers/authors of these patterns are shopping I really don't know. or like I inferred before, they've just made up their own personal names for the beads. I'M GUTTED because it'll take me forever to work out a conversion for many of the beads. I will not be sending this book back because the patterns are quite stunning, it really is a beautiful book, no-one could possibly dispute that but I'm going to have to join some sort of group/club where I can talk to American beaders or some super experienced beaders from the UK and ask for their help. One thing's for sure, I will not give up! NB: My absolute favourite pattern is the 'Ilona', oh my word, it's stunning and I just have to make/have it, and the 'Vortices' a close second place. Like I said before, I'm a fair way from beginner but not super experienced and whilst some of these patterns require absolute concentration, none of them are really difficult (complicated maybe but not difficult) and for that reason alone I am happy to say I highly recommend this book, you'll have hours of fun making these patterns up. Oh, and one last thing, always always read the artists tips section on each pattern before embarking on the project because very often it will warn you about doing or not doing something the right way and is very useful to know beforehand. 'Snap sets' are what we call 'Press studs' in the UK 17/7/25 - Came back to say I have found brick beads by the exact name (Umber Picasso 6x3mm 2 hole brick beads) called for in the materials section for the pattern I found are nothing like the colouring of ones in the picture of the book, these are horrible. I found them on Ebay eventually and was not at all impressed so have made do with some really pretty half Tila beads I've seen on Amazon. They are very, very slightly smaller but I figure if I use slightly smaller seed beads the bracelet will turn out just the same only slightly narrower, I dunno, we'll see what happens. Anyway, what ever happens, I'll never part with this book, every time I pick it up I get excited and can't wait for my delivery from Amazon on 20th July.

Amazing and a beautiful book. It was recommended to me and I’m really pleased with it. Highly recommend fantastic designs and suitable for different levels as the basic stitches are also covered at the back of the book.

What lovely bracelets with clear instructions on how to make them. Lots of them..

Beautiful book with many interesting designs and excellent delivery