Customer Reviews

Techniques of Beading Earrings

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
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This is the book from which I taught myself to bead earrings. The instructions and illustrations are excellent. I bless the clerk in the beading store in Seattle who steered me to this book, over all the others in the store, many years ago. Some of the others I have looked at for "beginners" I think I would have found very frusterating. If you want to try your hand at beading, this is a good, basic book and much cheaper than most.

This book has been on the beading scene for some years. It is NOT wonderfully photographed or filled with lots of color pages. But it is quite inexpensive too! What it is, though,is a simple and understandable approach to making beaded needle woven earrings with a distinctly native American Indian look using the ladder stitch and Cheyenne brick stitch. Seed beads and bugle beads, readily available, will make most of the projects.

This is the book from which I taught myself to bead earrings. The instructions and illustrations are excellent. I bless the clerk in the beading store in Seattle who steered me to this book, over all the others in the store, many years ago. Some of the others I have looked at for "beginners" I think I would have found very frusterating. If you want to try your hand at beading, this is a good, basic book and much cheaper than most.

I bought this and some other little books to complete a "historical" collection of beading books. It is a useful book for beaders who have not made ladder and brick stitch "hippie" earrings before, with clear and complete line drawings of each step of the process.

There are several charted designs if you like that sort of thing.

However, 1984 was a long time ago, and the state of the art of beading (and all kinds of craft) books now has much flashier production values. For that reason, I give three stars instead of perhaps four-and-a-half. Compared with 2010 beading books, this is just a pamphlet. A pretty good pamphlet, 'tho'.

This is another good book in his line up of book. If you like nice patterns I suggest getting all of his different books