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Braided Wire Jewelry (A Schiffer Book for Craftspeople)

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this book only uses one form of braiding, and spends pages explaining how to do it -- the same braids we all learned as children, for pigtails. Then the patterns are gussied up with beads but there's nothing here the rankest beginner wouldn't invent for onesself -- nothing new. A pity.

Loretta wishes you "good luck" at the outset and you'll certainly need it. The photos are too tiny to distinguish any detail. I recommend that this book go back to the publisher to have the wire shown in its actual size. Pare down the explanations because bigger pictures could show more. In its current state, the book is fairly useless to learn wire wrapping techniques.

I was very disappointed with this book. As a metal weaver and instructor of wire wrapping, this looked like a wonderful book to share with my students and new techniques for me to try. There were many pictures and drawings that I felt were difficult to follow as the actual things we needed to see were too small. The potential was there, but the technique failed. It appeared to be a revival of 70's art mixed in with primative Native American style.