Bead Weaving Featuring The Mirrix Loom
With Claudia Chase

The techniques in this DVD are fun and easy to grasp and will open the door to many new possibilities in bead weaving. The Mirrix Loom using the shedding device is featured in this DVD.

In this video you will learn to:

-Weave and finish a bead soup bracelet using a wide variety of bead sizes and shapes.
-Weave and finish a bead soup purse using consistantly sized beads in a variety of colors.
-Weave a bead "tapestry" using a pastel drawing places behind the warp.

 

 

Price: $35.00

Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation by Carol Russell

This classic book, now completely revised and expanded, has long been a favorite of both teachers and students of tapestry weaving. Learn to weave tapestry on any kind of loom, vertical or horizontal. Take an intriguing journey to make an elaborate, but logical, tapestry sampler. The process is explained step-by-step and illustrated with over 300 beautiful color photographs and diagrams of tapestry techniques. Along the way, color theories applicable to tapestry are explained. You will be inspired by the ancient art form explored on these colorful pages. Treasures from museums and prominent contemporary artists relate the historic significance of tapestries and their limitless range of visual power. Learn how archival finishing and mounting your handwoven textile completes the project. A chapter on designing for tapestry provides tools for translating future concepts into compositions. Be a part of this ancient, yet completely modern, weaving tradition.

 

Price: $60.00

 

Bead Creator Professional version 4.0

The latest version of this wonderful software. Create beautiful beading designs from scratch or from an image, with an easy to bead pattern with our BeadCreator software. If you want to create amazing works of bead designs, BeadCreatorPro is a must-have tool. This fantastic program allows you to create an image and have it translated into a "bead map" and shopping list for your project. * Import any image and convert it to a bead graph, or * Work from a blank canvas and design your own pattern * Zoom factor for different bead configuration * Uses any size bead, from 1/0 to 22/0, or input your own measurements * Create loom, brick, peyote & 2- to 9-drop peyote bead layouts * Choose from exact color match or gradation color blends * Change individual bead colors using our floating color palette * Paint, edit, change, modify beads and colors with ease * Modify the hue, saturation and brightness from within the program * Turn bead colors on and off for more design control * Prints a "shopping list" and number of needed beads * Prints a full-color preview of the design * Prints a bead grid or a word pattern * Export the bead preview image as a JPEG * Save settings for working on files later * Export pattern, bead list, and design instructions as a PDF file - great for beaders who resell patterns * Includes all Delica colors, updated as new colors become available * Runs on all Windows platforms, including Windows XP. * Over 10,000 users worldwide use BeadCreator programs for their designs * Free technical support via email and telephone * All updates to version 3.x are free via download; upgrade from 2.x for $39.95 * Now shipping Version 3.0! More info at www.beadcreator.com.

 

Price: $89.95

Get $10 off Bead Creator Pro when you purchase ANY LOOM
Discount code: creator

"The Sea -Selections from the 1st International Miyuki Delica Challenge"

“The Sea” is a collection of contest entries from the 1st International Miyuki Delica Challenge. The book includes a forward by Barry Kahn of Caravan Beads, notes from the judges of the contest, information about the artists, their pieces, and their thought processes, as well as full-color and full-page pictures of the entries. A brief illustrated guide to common bead weaving stitches follows. This book is not only a good guide to beginning bead weaving, but also a perfect beading inspiration for anyone! 104 pages.

 

Price: $15.00

Tapestry Weaving Book by Kirsten Glasbrook

This colourful, exciting book offers a rich source of stimulating and innovative ideas that will appeal to all abilities. Kirsten Glasbrook uses her evocative designs to illustrate the techniques with step-by-step guidance on how to create horizontal and diagonal lines, curves, motifs, shading, outlines, borders and more. Here you will discover all you need to know about tapestry weaving from choosing colours and winding warps to creating images and finishing off with tassels and beads. Claudia Chase highly recommends this book.

 

Price: $22.00

Mirrix Warping DVD

The Mirrix warping DVD (comes free with each loom.) Includes: warping loom for tapestry using shedding device, warping loom for beading using shedding device, warping loom for beading without shedding device, warping the mini-mirrix and warping with the warping bar kit. A complete introduction to your Mirrix Loom experience.

 

Price: $10.00

Line in Tapestry by Kathe Todd-Hooker

Been weaving tapestry for awhile? Then you aware that there are sometimes difficulties with weaving the perfect line for the situation. Or are you a beginner who wants to get a good technical foundation? Then knowing how to weave lines easily and correctly is important. How do you keep them from being wavy when you need them perfectly straight? How do you shade with dots or create a floating bar? How do you make vertical straight lines? Or lines that travel in all directions? Are you interested in the linear techniques of kelims such as zilli, soumak, and cicim? What about textured lines such as those made with chaining or brocading? How do you tame a line and make it do what you want? This book is written about line use, line technique, and producing lines in tapestry from the simple to the complex. There are explanations and illustrated techniques for producing lines for all occasions and purposes. If you want to understand line usage in tapestry, this is the book for you.

This book also has a great deal of information of that would be of general use to tapestry weavers. These include: preparing weft bundles so that the group of yarns lie flat and weave in without tension problems, wrapping bobbins efficiently, stabilizing edges, understanding and using hill and valley threads effectively, and using the technical aspects of weaving to help support the aesthetic possibilities of the tapestry design.

(82 pages of text, black/white drawings and photos. Spiral bound so that it lies flat for quick reference when you're at the loom.)

Price: $29.95

Tapestry 101 by Kathe Todd-Hooker

This book is a beginning course for the person interested in learning how to do woven tapestry. It will give you the foundation you need to understand tapestry weaving and be able to express yourself in this wonderful medium. There are plans for a simple, but competent loom, information on the equipment and materials you'll need for weaving, and instructions on doing the basic techniques that you need to know to complete your own tapestry. There is also information on finishing and mounting your tapestry for exhibition. Even if you have been weaving for awhile, Kathe has covered information on all aspects of tapestry weaving that will be a help to you. There are 108 pages of written information, diagrams, and photographs with a spiral binding so that you can lay the book flat beside your loom as a reference while you're weaving.

 

 

Price: $29.95