Beaded Bag-ettes - Purse/Bag Beading Pattern Book

Spirit Bags - Wilderness Pathways. This book is new and never used.It has 35 full color high quality pages with instructions, pictures, and patterns for 16 projects. These projects are created with Delica or seed beads. Use your talents or learn how to do Peyote and brick stitches. Create amulet bags or you might like to use the patterns to create wall hangings or other designs of your own. The designs are called:Alpha wolf, Spirit horse, The bear facts, Foxy, Winter's teeth, Southwestern sundo

From fun and funky to excitingly exotic, popular purses of the mid-20th century have a fashion appeal all their own. More than simply functional, these bags feature bold, often whimsical stylings. They say notice meand buyers continue to do just that! Crocodile and carved Lucite, and elegant beaded evening bags are here, as are bags by Enid Collins, all enticingly displayed in over 400 color photos and vintage ads. The bright, breezy, and informative text pays tribute to fashion at its flirtiest, while the current price guide will have collectors reaching for their pocketbooks!

From fun and funky to excitingly exotic, popular purses of the mid-20th century have a fashion appeal all their own. More than simply functional, these bags feature bold, often whimsical stylings. They say notice meand buyers continue to do just that! Crocodile and carved Lucite, and elegant beaded evening bags are here, as are bags by Enid Collins, all enticingly displayed in over 400 color photos and vintage ads. The bright, breezy, and informative text pays tribute to fashion at its flirtiest, while the current price guide will have collectors reaching for their pocketbooks!

Bags are a favourite accessory in every fashion-conscious girl's wardrobe, and because vintage is currently a key look from couture to high street, vintage accessorising is a great way to subtly add style to any outfit. The bags in this book draw inspiration from the elegance, glamour and sophistication of styles from the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. There are twenty original projects in total, with five inspired by each era. In addition, there is a purse pattern so that any of the bags in the book can be enhanced with a pretty matching purse. Four purses have been included to show ways to enhance the basic pattern to complement the matching bag. Patterns for all the bags are included in the book and all have seam allowances added already so that the book is not just inspirational, it's practical too, providing everything you need to know to take your bag from being a beautiful idea to a finished item. They make wonderful unique gifts, or you can make them all for yourself - because as every girl knows, you can never have too many bags!

with over 500 color photos, Bags offers a unique survey of the bag in all of it's forms covering virtually all styles and materails from the Middle Ages to today

PATTERN to make: Folder style Clutch Purse or Notebook Cover Vintage Crochet Pattern A Digitally Cleaned and Restored Reprint PATTERN to make: Crocheted Diamond Patterned Folder Clutch Purse bag (about 13 inches) or notebook / binder cover.

The Magical Beaded Medicine Bag Book is an exciting look at the global artform of medicine bags. This fascinating book includes beadlooming, beadweaving, peyote stitch, Huichol-style medicine bags, and much more, plus in-depth explanations of the folklore of medicine bags.

*Handbags reign as the ultra-chic female fashion accessory - the average woman owns at least three handbags or purses, according to handbag industry surveys *Contains full-size patterns for an added buyer bonus Bags and purses are often more than accessories; many times they reflect the attitude and spirit of the owner. This follow-up to the original Embroidered Bags & Purses provides embroiderers with 17 different projects to showcase their talent and character. Using stumpwork, beading, casalguidi, smocking, silk ribbon work, tapestry and conventional embroidery readers will create a variety of elegant and functional bags for every woman.

Beaded Favors is the newest bead design book by Jennie Might. Responding to the popularity of the needlecase projects brought to you in her first book Beaded Needlecases A book of Instruction and Design, Beaded Favors brings more delightful patterns sized once again for needlecases and treasure bags. With a large digitally photographed "favor gallery", each pattern is represented in a completed model. Both a needlecase and a treasure bag represent most patterns. Once again, the excellent tubular peyote instructions are included so that the beginner can pick up this book and go to work. A beader can grow with this book as the difficulty of the patterns are suitable for a range of talents from beginner to expert. Each design is presented in a full color chart along with a suggested color key based upon Miyuki Delica bead colors. This book expresses the notion that a beading project is a work of art and makes a wonderful favor to share with others. To that end it includes many wonderful sayings, poems and gift suggestions with which to fill your favors.

Give fabric a new lease of life with one of these fantastically chic recycled bags. In today's modern, environmentally conscious society, with its emphasis on reusing and avoiding plastic bags, a practical bag has become an essential part of everyday life. However, practical doesn't have to mean boring, as any of the 35 fun and functional projects in this book show. Every bag is designed to make the most of the materials that are readily available and easily recyclable. Try turning a dish-towel into a smart shopper to carry all your groceries in, or use an old hessian sack to make a sassy bag to take to the gym. Reuse is at the heart of this book, as projects like the floral scrap tote bag and the patchwork weekend bag demonstrate, and you will soon be able to transform an old blanket or a few scraps of discarded clothing into a unique bag in no time at all. Each project comes complete with beautifully illustrated step-by-step instructions and there are designs suitable for all skill levels. You are certain to find the ideal bag for you or the perfect gift to give to friends and family.