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The Wirebending Book: Techniques for Beadlovers (Beading Books Series: Techniques, Inspiration & More)

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I was surprised at the simplicity of this book and the amateurish drawings, but it's delightful. The directions are easy to understand and the projects....so very pretty and simple to achieve.
I was also impressed that the author found simple (not expensive) ways to accomplish great results. (i.e: the homemade jig)
I would recommend it to anyone who desires to explore wire bending & sculpting.

I was very disappointed in this book. It's very hard to learn anything from it. All of the pages are someones terrible attempt of trying to draw instructions on how to do wire work. Because there are no actual photographs it's very hard to tell what your work should look like or if you are doing it correctly. The only photographs that she has are of the finished pieces, and there all lumped together on two pages. Altough the jewelry she makes is nice and the two pages of photographs that are there to look at are really nice, you have no idea of how to actually get to that point in creating them. I think this book would have been more worth while had she taken the time and extra money to hire a photagrapher to take pictures while she worked. Then maybe this book would serve it's purpose and actually help someone learn the art of wire working.