A delicate craft that has been handed down for thousands of years, bead embroidery was popular among the aristocrats in China's imperial courts and is an important part of modern haute couture, wedding dresses, and other accessories.A step-by-step guide to 25 unique embroidery designs, Bead Embroidery Chinese Style incorporates traditional Chinese design elements, including landscape paintings, bird and flower motifs, and famous poems. Projects are both beautiful and useful, and are simple enough for embroidery beginners.Readers will learn about:•The different bead embroidery tools, techniques, and materials•Over a dozen embroidery stitches for single-bead, multi-bead, free stitches, layered stitches, and more•Small-scale embroidery projects, including jewelry, coasters, pouches, and silk scarves•More advanced projects, including makeup bags, lamp covers, and wall art.Author Han Yu is one of the world's leading experts on bead embroidery. She studied at the prestigious Ecole Lesage, part of Chanel's Metiers d'art, in Paris, and regularly produces pieces for Shanghai and Paris Fashion Weeks, state dignitaries, and celebrities.

"By applying the time-honoured techniques and traditions of Japanese embroidery, beautiful beaded motifs are brought to life. Discover a whole new world of beading through the pages of this superb book which includes detailed step-by-step diagrams, full descriptions of the techniques involved and fabulous photography. Nine stunning projects are included ranging from simple beginner designs to a sumptuous evening bag."--

Bead Embroidery is a craft that has been handed down for thousands of years in China. Records of it are found abundant in Chinese historical documents. Carrying both dazzling glamour and elegance, bead embroidery was popular among aristocrats in the imperial courts of China in successive dynasties. It has now become an indispensable part of haute couture garments and wedding gowns and accessories. When vibrant and colorful beads work with embroidery threads or yarns, they complement each other, adding to the richness of artistic representation of embroidery. It generates multiple visual effects and offers a broader space for imagination, thus elevating your design to a work of three-dimensions.The book intends to inject into Western embroidery designs such elements of Chinese culture as landscape and bird-and-flower paintings, poetry and legendary tales. Projects presented in the book are both beautiful to look upon and practical to use. You will start with simple designs and move on to more difficult ones, through which you learn the basics of bead embroidery. The book is a step-by-step guide that helps you learn to create nearly 30 pieces of unique bead embroidery work. It is also a journey for you to appreciate the beauty of bead embroidery bridging Chinese and western culture. With the help of this book, you will learn to ? use the different tools of bead embroidery, understand the features of different beads, sequins, etc. ;? master the rich techniques of bead embroidery using sewing needle and tambour hook needle and applying over a dozen stitches that are meant for single bead, multiple beads, free embroidery stitches and for layered-sequins;? make practical small items such as jewelries, coasters, ring bearer pillows, pouches and silk scarves.;? apply a variety of bead embroidery techniques to make such things as cosmetic bags, decorative paintings and lamp covers that have more sophisticated design and richer color. This more advanced part, which richly reflects Chinese culture in the designs, opens you up to endless potentials of bead embroidery and broadens the scope of your creative ideas.

Bead embroidery is a craft that has been handed down for thousands of years in China, and there is no shortage of historical records about this art form. According to these records, it was favored by the court nobility in Imperial times for its beautiful, elegant features. Today, bead embroidery has become popular in high-fashion clothing on the international stage. When combined, colorful beads and threads complement each other, giving the art of embroidery a richer expression, more diverse visual effects, and a broader scope of imagination, allowing one's creativity to make the leap from flat to three-dimensional. This book unites Chinese and Western embroidery techniques to create gorgeous practical beadwork jewelry with floral elements that are rich in Chinese culture. The projects range from simple to difficult, giving you a basic yet comprehensive grasp of bead embroidery, and teaching you how to create nearly twenty pieces of unique bead embroidery jewelry to embellish your daily outfits. With this book, you will: &·Master the use of bead embroidery tools, understand the characteristics of different bead embroidery materials and get started easily. &·Acquire rich hand sewing and hook needle techniques, including more than twenty techniques such as single bead and multiple bead embroidery, overlapping embroidery, front side embroidery, backside embroidery, to lay a solid foundation for making beaded jewelry. &·Learn to embroider nearly twenty different kinds of flowers using a combination of bead embroidery techniques through illustrated tutorials, and make jewelry that incorporates Chinese aesthetics, including earrings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, hairbands, and clutch bags, bringing the art of bead embroidery into your daily life. &·Experience the beauty of beaded flowers from a Chinese aesthetic perspective, to broaden your creativity and inspire you.

"Original designs for beaded borders, backgrounds, edgings, motifs, and fringes to embellish bridal, evening, and casual fashions. Complete basics section teaches the stitches and skills needed"--Provided by publisher.

Learn about the history and culture surrounding Chinese embroidery and learn to embroider yourself with this easy-to-follow and beautifully illustrated guide. Embroidery in China is a true art form, one that has been practiced for over 2,000 years. In Chinese Embroidery, you'll discover everything from the history of the art to the different schools in different ages and their styles to knowledge about selection, collection and preservation of embroidered articles. Chinese Embroidery contains over 200 full-color photos of works and step-by-step guides—all of which help to explain and analyze over twenty kinds of needlework and teach comprehensive application of these basic skills. When you reach the end of this book, you'll have learned about twenty different embroidered pieces for daily use and display purposes. Learn about the pattern-oriented art and traditional culture of China at the same time as you master the embroidery craftsmanship unique to China. Stimulate your imagination and creativity as you experience the joy of embroidery with Chinese Embroidery.

This practical step-by-step guide to haute couture embroidery covers everything from machine and hand stitching, to tambour beading, goldwork and monogramming. Whether you are interested in adding monogrammed initials to your favourite bathrobe, stitching a flower on your favourite jacket, adding sparkling beads to a new dress or creating a goldwork embellishment, Fashion Embroidery teaches you how to add a unique touch to your clothes. In this beautifully illustrated book, Jessica Pile, the Production Director at Hand & Lock embroidery, explores the intricate techniques used in fashion embroidery. With hand-drawn designs, catwalk photographs and step-by-step guides, this book is perfect for beginners looking to personalise their own clothes, as well as more experienced embroiderers who want to apply new techniques to different fabrics. Beginning with an inspirational overview of the fashion industry, Jessica looks at examples of embroideries and embellishments by a variety of couturiers, including Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hardy Amies and Burberry. The book then demonstrates the basics of three main techniques – goldwork, tambour beading and embroidery stitches including silk shading, satin and stem stitch. In do-it-yourself projects, Jessica first helpfully explains the basics of materials; she teaches you how to pick the right fabric, what tools to use, where to source materials, what types of wire or beads to use and terminology. Taking influences from existing couture designs, she then shows you how to execute these learned techniques onto your own clothes. This book is perfect for fashion students, textile artists, and those who want a more unique look to their clothes.