The Art of Making Hand-Beaded Bags by Karen Torrisi

Nothing quite gives the feeling of opulence and luxury than a fine piece of hand-beaded work.

Created for the novice as well as the experience hand beader, Karen Torrisi in The Art of Making Hand-Beaded Bags shows you exactly how to emulate the artisans of the past.

Sixteen beautiful handbag projects are presented with easy-to-follow steps including full descriptions of stitching techniques for: cup sequins, bugle beads, seed beads, rhinestones, bricking, triple seed, loop encrusting, making sequin flowers, beaded loop, triple seed loop encrusting, loose loop fingering, loop border, loop ended fringing, beading on a ring frame and more.