Customer Reviews
Gain confidence with jewellery making - By: K. Platt, 15 Nov 2008 
With its attractive cover, I know you will pick this book up off the bookshop shelf if you are the least bit interestedin jewellery making. From design ideas & inspiration, this book aims to take the jewellery maker through the whole process from start to finish. Comprehensive chapters include setting up a studio, materials, tools & techniques. Although it covers some of the same area as Elizabeth Olver's book Jewellery Making Techniques, the two books do not overlap too much & complement one another perfectly. The projects are laid outin easy to follow steps & the finished samples & steps are clearly photographed. You could easily use it as a week by week course. This practical book will be very useful to all jewellery makers. It's great value for money. This book would have been more rounded & complete if it had included more sources of inspiration & a good sources listing, however it does mention just a few magazines, books & website.
An absolute essential for all fledgling jewellery makers - By: Mrs Bad Crumble, 22 Oct 2008 Whilst the "Search Inside" option gave some indication as to the quality of this book, I was blown away by the sheer depth of information & guidance.
The book is split down into 34 units with 6 practical projects that cross reference with the techniques taught. The units take you through the complete process, from finding inspiration, evaluating & translating ideas through to transferring patterns, piercing, annealing, soldering, filing & many much more. Everything is laid outin an uncluttered fashion with lots of photos so you can be sure you are following correctly whilst the text is written at just the right level - neither patronizing or too advanced.
I must confess I am only a beginner so cannot really comment on what it offers those slightly more advanced, however it does seem to have so much information that even once my confidence & skill grows I'll still be referring back to this.
A beautiful, informative book that I would highly recommend to all would-be jewellery designers.
Beautiful!!! - By: J. Washbrook, 08 May 2008 This isn't so much a book as a labour of love. Beautifully presented, extremely clear photographs, high quality paper. It remains to be seen whether it can teach me how to make jewellery - if it can't that'll be down to me - butin any case it is a lovely book to own.
