Bead Flowers

With easy-to-follow instructions and colorful drawings and pictures, Bead Flowers guides readers through the basics, then goes on to offer instructions for creating festive arrangements for special events and occasions, including wedding bouquets, fruits and vegetables for Halloween decorations, Christmas trees and seasonal wreaths.

Using just small beads and wires, readers can learn to express their creativity by crafting beautiful roses, violets, carnations, tulips and other flowers.

With easy-to-follow instructions and colorful drawings and pictures, Bead Flowers guides readers through the basics, then goes on to offer instructions for creating festive arrangements for special events and occasions, including wedding bouquets, fruits and vegetables for Halloween decorations, Christmas trees and seasonal wreaths.

Minako Shimonagase learned about bead flowers when she visited New York and started to study them in 1989. She established a bead flower salon called Candy Garden in 2003 and teaches at various cultural schools in Japan. She is a certified instructor of the Japan Craft Association.