Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist

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Название: Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist

Издатель: A K Peters/CRC Press; 1 edition

Автор: Ellie Baker, Susan Goldstine

Год: December 4, 2014

Страниц: 278

Формат: pdf (оригинал)

Язык: English

Размер: 158 mb

ISBN: 978-1466588486

Качество: хорошее

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Designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers alike, Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods, challenges, and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. mirknig.com

All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs.

Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a project may choose to skip ahead to the pattern pages and begin crocheting from an abundance of unique, mathematically inspired designs. mirknig.com

Those wishing to design their own patterns will find many useful tools, template patterns, and a new methodology for understanding how to do so even without using math. Puzzle lovers without previous knowledge of bead crochet will also find ample inspiration for learning the craft.

The first part of the book describes the basic requirements and constraints of a bead crochet pattern and explains what makes designing in this medium so tricky.

The authors present their new design framework and offer insight on how best to approach design choices and issues unique to bead crochet. mirknig.com

The second part presents a series of bead crochet design challenges informed by colorful bits of mathematics, including topology, graph theory, knot theory, tessellations, and wallpaper groups. mirknig.com

Each chapter in this section begins with a design puzzle accompanied by an introduction to the mathematical idea that inspired it. The authors then discuss what made the challenge difficult, present some of their solutions, and describe the thinking and ideas behind their approach. mirknig.com

The final part contains nearly 100 original bead crochet patterns, including solutions to all the design challenges. This part also provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of bead crochet technique