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Summary: Inspires new creative ideas and works
Review: An excellent guide inspiring ideas for both metal sculpture and jewelry. A beautiful, as well as a thoughtful presentation of textile history and techniques adapted for use with metals. The photographs are elegant and eloquent in the information that they alone convey. A remarkable book useful to both students of jewelry techniques and to masters of metal work. Five Stars to Arline Fisch!
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Summary: Inspires new creative ideas and works
Review: The descriptions of what types of metals are best to use and the list of suppliers are worth the purchase price. There are basic instructions in everything from knitting to weaving to bobbin lace. A beginner crafter will appreciate the instructions and find a very useful book. As an experienced worker with nearly all the textile techniques in the book, I found the inspiration to branch into metalwork and some exciting project ideas. However, I felt a lot of the book was wasted, because the metal techniques are not difficult to master for someone familar with the corresponding yarn craft.
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Summary: A Veritable Encyclopedia of Fiber Techniques for Metal!
Review: This fascinating book can't be just read and set aside. Instead the reader finds themself sketching designs then working to duplicate the processes described in intricate detail both in print and with photographic illustration. This book is neither a color-by-numbers insult to the reader's intelligence nor a dry overabstract pretension, but is an eminently readable intermediate level text. It presumes some knowledge of basic metalworking technique but does not overwhelm the reader. The relative lack of specifics regarding techniques of beginning, ending, transition and joining is entirely appropriate for a text which presumes the reader has some prior experiance in basic metal working. I do suggest reading Oppi Untracht first, but that is not be a necessity if one has some hands on experiance. Whether the interest is knitting, weaving, basketry, knotting or other process, or just the history of the subject, one finds they return again and again to reread and learn more nuances. Surprise! This is one of the classic texts which grows with the reader!
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Summary: When Fiber Becomes Metal
Review: Though not the end all, be all of the technique (I wish she'd come out with a good project based how-to book on the subject), you will find tons of inspiration in the gallery and in the descriptions of the basic techniques! For those looking for a way to add to their current jewlery work or jump from textiles to jewelry, you'll find lots of help here.
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