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Textile Techniques in Metal: For Jewelers, Textile Artists & Sculptors

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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!

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.

This is not a how to do a project book.
Its a book that shows you how to push the materials used to its full capacity
100% inspirational.
Photos are great, so is the information on history materials, tools, etc.
A "must have" for all serious wire artists

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.

Another disappointing book on using textile techniques in metal: the vast majority of the projects are too amateur and "crafty" in appearance, at least in my opinion.

The one technique I bought the book to learn about wasn't in it: as a silversmith, I wouldn't consider using any of the others.