This book not only offers the joy of stitching designs but also provides tips on how to apply them creatively. It's a book that allows you to feel the infinite possibilities of bead embroidery. Haute couture embroidery is gaining popularity and attention. Using a crochet hook called a Lunéville hook and embroidery needles, it's a dazzling embroidery technique that embellishes fabric with beads, sequins, gold and silver threads, jewels, feathers, and all sorts of materials. This book introduces 118 designs, mainly using readily available seed beads, including plant and flower motifs, and continuous patterns like lace and galloon (braid). ■ Table of Contents Introduction About Tools About Threads About Fabric About Beads Basic Bead Embroidery Needles and Crochet/Enfilage/Starting and Finishing Stitches 1. Stitching One by One 2. Stitching in Groups 3. Stitching Light Lines 4. Filling Surfaces ~ Vermicelli 5. Couching Stitch 6. Stitching Crosses ~ Pointillé 7. Three-Dimensional Expression 1 ~ Raising Beads 8. Three-Dimensional Expression 2 ~ Creating Fringe Important Things to Keep in Mind Pattern & Motif Collection ・Surfaces, Lines, and Grids ・Small Circles and Small Flowers ・Threads and Beads ・Plant Motifs ・Tila Beads ・+ Crystal Beads ・Lace Motifs ・Galloon Towards Your Own "Next Level" Embroidery Suggestions for Creating a Bead Wardrobe Applied Works