This is the best reference book for French beaded flower techniques available.
There are side-by-side photos of different sized petals including the "formula" for each. The following
techniques are covered in detailed:
- Basic-Axis Method with round and pointed ends
- Double Pointed Ovals
- Pointed Top and Rounded Bottom
- Rounded Top and Pointed Bottom
- Round Shape
- Leaves or Petals with Open Centers
- Loop Method
- Lacing
- Instruction Formulas and Descriptions
- Overtwists and Undertwists
- Stamens in various Forms and Lengths
- Looped Stamens
- About Stems
- Attaching Flower Onto Heavy Wire Stem
- Treatment of Leaf stems
- Bending and Shaping Flower Petals
- Widening Similar Size Petals or Leaves
- Looped Daisy with Disk Stamen
- Stamen Disk
- Shading
- Tall Ferns or Loop Sprays
- Sepals
- Dome Shapes
- Beaded Earrings
- Oranges, Fruits, Etc.
Walbead sold beaded flowers kits in the late 1960s and this book includes instructions for
many bouquets:
- Marguerite Daisies
- Sweetheart Baby Roses
- Forsythia
- Bed of Roses
- Verbenas
- Bells of Erin
- Large Darwin Tulips and Elephant Leaves
- Irises, Daffodils and Five Star Daisies
- Giant Sunflower
- Rubrum Lilies and Tulips
- Japanese Lanterns
- Narcissus
- Harvest Wheat
- Lilies, Star daisies and Poinsettias
- Nasturtiums
- Field Daisies
- Anemones, Tulips, Daffodils and Star Daisies
- Tiger Lilies
- African Violets and Queen Anne's Lace
- Lilacs
- Shasta daisies, Anemones, Pond Lilies
- Bearded Iris
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