25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for learning and inspiration, August 6, 2009
This review is from: 101 Wire Earrings: Step-by-Step Projects & Techniques (Paperback)
The book covers basic wire earrings. It starts with a wire primer and a great table of gauges for basic wire shapes, goes into the tools you'll use to create the projects in the book, and into the construction methods.
The construction methods was where I started getting excited. It goes past basic wire wrapping skills into shaping with hammers and piercing wire. The basic techniques instruction isn't skimped on either, so if you haven't learned how to make a nice neat wrapped loop yet, you'll find good instructions here.
The projects are simple stylized shapes for the most part. If you're looking for instructions for the swirly style of wire work, this isn't the book for you. But if you're looking for nice wearable elegant shapes, this book has them.
Most of the earrings have handmade earring hooks, or the hooks are part of the design, which I like a lot, and all the projects with beads have bead types that should be easy to find at your local bead shop or online. Nothing too exotic or very expensive, and also, most of the wire used is standard gauges and types.
It's a great book for beginners, or for people who are looking for fairly instant gratification and maybe a new way of thinking of wire shapes for earring design. Also, a lot of the earring wires are in uncommon shapes that may be perfect for a pair of seed bead earrings you are making instead of using commercial earring wires.
My personal favorites in the book are the Marquis shaped earrings on page 35 which remind me strongly of the sorts of earrings my mother use to wear, and I love the great shape of the earring wires on the Primitive Wheels earring design on page 63.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DISAPOINTING, September 29, 2009
This review is from: 101 Wire Earrings: Step-by-Step Projects & Techniques (Paperback)
I bought the book for the cover and the title, and because there's no bad review about it.
I don't know how beginers are going to find it, but I showed it to a friend who really likes to wear earrings, and she did not like a single one. They are just too common and too simple. There's no single pair of earrings that you can't find how to do them searching on google.
PS: I'ms sorry if my english is not very good, but it's not my first spoken lenguage
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Didnt provide adequate pictorals for the instructions, November 2, 2010
This review is from: 101 Wire Earrings: Step-by-Step Projects & Techniques (Paperback)
I found that the book didn't provide photos depicting the step by step process in the instructions . They only provide an end photo with a series of written instructions. Definitely not for a beginner . I also found that the range in designs were very flat. Overall i could have kept my money and purchased another book.
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