This is a 25 page color tutorial on how to work with stringer to decorate glass beads. The tutorial is geared toward the novice beadmaker, but has good info for intermediates as well. In this tutorial, you will learn to pull two different kinds of stringer, and apply them in different ways to your base beads. Some designs discussed include scrolling, corkscrew, framed cube, wrapped cube and more. All glass used in this tutorial is 104 COE. To be successful with this tutorial, you should have the following skills:

Making a round base bead
Dexterity with small tools
Be somewhat comfortable with the torch flame

Also useful, but not absolutely necessary is the ability to apply dots.
It's a pdf file which is about 4.4MB in size. You will need Acrobat Reader to view it. Click here to download it if you don't already have it on your system - it's free!

Permission is given to anyone who purchases this tutorial to make these beads for personal use and for sale. Please do not pass the tutorial itself on to anyone who has not purchased it.

$22.00

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