The ultimate guide to creative bracelet making: over 100 stunning designs to create and customise, from kumihimo-style to cuffs!
Create unique jewellery pieces that reflect your style and personality, or make personalized gifts for your loved ones.
With a completely visual materials, tools and techniques section, this comprehensive book is the ultimate guide to getting started with bracelet-making. Pick and choose from 40 different techniques, including Shamballa, beaded and wrap bracelets, then dive into the 100 projects with confidence.
Learn about the fundamental tools and materials you'll need to get started, from looms and pliers to threads, beads, and charms. Master a diverse range of techniques, including knotting, weaving, beading and macramé, through clear, concise visual instructions. Create 100 different bracelet designs, from the vibrant colours and intricate geometric patterns of Brazilian bracelets to the elegance and timelessness of ribbon-wrapped chain bracelets, all the way through to statement cuffs to give any outfit a touch of style.
This is a translation of the French title by popular craft authors Anne Sohier-Fournel, Agnes Delage-Calvet and Françoise Vauzeilles.
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With over 100 projects and 40 different techniques, theres something for everyonewhether youre drawn to colourful Brazilian friendship styles, intricate beadwork, or elegant ribbon-wrapped chains. The visual, step-by-step photography is a huge help, showing each stage clearly so you can follow along without second-guessing.
I particularly like how the book encourages experimentation. You can play with colour, texture, and pattern to make each bracelet uniquely your ownor to craft something thoughtful for someone else. Handmade bracelets make the most meaningful gifts, not just because theyre beautiful, but because of the time and love woven into them. * Women Talking * This comprehensive book is the ultimate guide to getting started with bracelet-making. Pick and choose from 40 different techniques including Shamballa, beaded and wrap bracelets, then dive into the 100 projects with confidence. * Machine Knitting Monthly - January 2026 * Create unique jewellery pieces with this comprehensive guide to getting started in the craft of bracelet making. Follow the patterns included and learn to customise them too. Master a diverse range of techniques, including knotting, weaving, beading and macrame, which are explained in clear, concise visual instructions. Find out all about the fundamental tools and materials you'll need to get started and which you'll need for each technique. Wrap techniques, working with seed beeds, dreamcatcher style, friendship bracelets, Shamballa beaded macrame, Kumihimo braiding and woven Paracord technique are among the 40-plus techniques explained. Projects range from intricate geometric patterns to ribbon-wrapped chain bracelets and statement cuffs. * Homespun magazine *
What you need
The essentials
Findings
Stringing materials and chains
Beads and charms
Technical section
General techniques
Brazilian techniques
Shamballa techniques
Wrap techniques
Kumihimo techniques
Decenario techniques
Paracord techniques
Seed bead techniques
Dreamcatcher techniques
Bracelet workshop
Index
Agnès Delage-Calvet loves embroidery, drawing, threads and fabrics, coloured pencils, images of all kinds... she is always working creatively, and never gets bored! Her passions for all things creative have become her work: she has participated in DMC (thread) collaborations, and has appeared on TV shows, in numerous magazines and has been involved in the publication of around thirty books for various publishers.
Agnès has created many of the beaded and threaded bracelets that appear in The Bracelet Bible.
Agnès lives in Cahors, France.
Anne Sohier-Fournel likes to draw and tinker. She loves her painters palette, her pencils, her scissors, her glue and her toolbox. But above all, she loves threads and beads of all shapes and colours!
Anne lives in Tours, France.
Françoise Vauzeilles is often found with a ball of wool in one hand, an embroidery needle, a tube of glue and a pair of scissors in the other and a camera around her neck! Also passionate about DIY and baking, Françoise is a passionate jack-of-all-trades. She has published numerous books on subjects including macramé, crochet and knitting.
Françoise lives in Lyon, France.
Find her on Instagram: @francoise_vauzeuilles
