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Summary: Reference, not textbook
Review: Come to this book the way you would a dictionary and you'll be pleased; expect a text on how to bead and you won't like it. This book is great for finding information, quick help, and looking up something you aren't sure about. Despite the color cover, the rest of the book is in black and white, and there is no stunning gallery to inspire you. In fact, there are no photographs (except for the cover). The simple line drawings are meant to keep things clear and help the text, not be the only source of information. You'll find diagrams of how to knot, how to start a bend to make a wire loop, how to connect beading to earwires--all things that could never be done easily using only words. The format is meant to cover as much beading ground as possible, with just enough help to get the reader started. It is not a step-by-step project book. The beginning beader will reach for this book often; the intermediate beader will use the book for backup; and the advanced beader will be glad she bought it when she was a beginning beader.
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Summary: Great book to learn from.
Review: Great book for people who are just starting out working with beads. Clear instructions and great illustrations. This is one book I plan to keep forever.
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Summary: The Handbook for Beading
Review: I am a novice at jewelry making and found this book to have everything I need to know. It is exact with diagrams for assistance, where needed. My only problem was that I couldn't always find things from the index in the back, otherwise, WOW!
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Summary: The Handbook for Beading
Review: I am a novice at jewelry making and found this book to have everything I need to know. It is exact with diagrams for assistance, where needed. My only problem was that I couldn't always find things from the index in the back, otherwise, WOW!
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Summary: very confusing
Review: I bought this book for my 17 year-old niece for her birthday (she has recently become interested in making bead earrings) but after it arrived and I looked through it with my sister-in-law, I decided to send it back and get something else. The worst thing, I guess, are the illustrations. The color photos are fine but the black & white ones are too dark and the drawings that come with the instructions look like they were made by small children. It's also hard to figure out where things are -- we were trying to find earring projects we thought Lillian would be interested in making but there's no index so you have to page through the entire book to find anything.
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Summary: Great beginning bead book
Review: I have used this book to teach myself how to bead! Excellent for someone interested in learning how to bead without taking tons of classes.
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Summary: A great book for beginners
Review: I think the thing that amazes me the most about this book is how poorly designed and organized it is given the cost of the book. The illustrations look like they were scribbled on scraps of paper, the black and white photographs are dark and murky and the whole thing is laid out with only minimal organization which is really a shame because there is a great deal of very useful and comprehensive information here providing you can actually find what you are looking for -- the Table of Contents is at the ->back<- of the book under the heading "Index;" there is, needles to say, no index per se. Ms Conner should seriously consider either finding another publisher for her book or persuading her current publisher to hire both a graphic artist and an editor with experience in creating crafts books in the event that she writes a revised edition.
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Summary: great text lost in a poorly-designed book
Review: I think the thing that amazes me the most about this book is how poorly designed and organized it is given the cost of the book. The illustrations look like they were scribbled on scraps of paper, the black and white photographs are dark and murky and the whole thing is laid out with only minimal organization which is really a shame because there is a great deal of very useful and comprehensive information here providing you can actually find what you are looking for -- the Table of Contents is at the ->back<- of the book under the heading "Index;" there is, needles to say, no index per se. Ms Conner should seriously consider either finding another publisher for her book or persuading her current publisher to hire both a graphic artist and an editor with experience in creating crafts books in the event that she writes a revised edition.
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Summary: Exostive resource
Review: I've found that this book is an excellent resource for ANY beader. I've been Beading off/on for the last three years, and I found things I didn't know about. The illustrations are fair but they could be done better (not to complain) They're alot better than I could do.
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Summary: Exostive resource
Review: I've found that this book is an excellent resource for ANY beader. I've been Beading off/on for the last three years, and I found things I didn't know about. The illustrations are fair but they could be done better (not to complain) They're alot better than I could do.
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