Review jewelry and beads for Dummies – Book

Jewellery and Beading for Dummies was published in 2005 and is probably the book the most popular available for beginners teaching the basics of making jewelry and beads.

When the book was published some years ago, I had already made jewelry for some time that I was not really interested in obtaining it.

Now I'm concentrating more on teaching jewelry making I am always looking for jewelry making information that can help beginners, so I decided to get a book and examine it.

Here is an overview of the contents of the book and my thoughts on each section. If you're new to beading and / or manufacture of jewelry I hope you find this useful.

The book is divided into five parts: Part 1: Creating Irresistible Jewelry, Part 2: Discovering Simple jewelry-making techniques, Part 3: Implementation of design ideas, trends, and more, part 4: Based on the manufacturing Your jewelry hobby, and Part 5: Part of Tens.

The first part, Creating Irresistible Jewelry, covers everything from A to Z a beginner needs to know about different strings, chords, and wire options available. There is also a full explanation of jewelry making tools and various basic types of connectors (pins, eye rings, jump, etc.) and staples.

There is also a very full explanation on the types beads, crystal beads, pearls and stones. A small section is also devoted to explaining where you can find materials manufacturing jewelry online and offline.

The section ends with a chapter devoted to explaining the best way to configure your workspace.

If Part 1 of the book is essentially a description of "what" whereas Part 2, the discovery of simple jewelry making techniques, entering the "how".

Not surprisingly, it starts with stringing and knotting and how to use crimps. The next chapter is devoted to weaving and pearl focuses primarily on weaving with seed beads.

I thought it was a little unusual to focus so much on the seed beads as there are many best things you can do the weaving beads other than seed beads. So I think this chapter could be greatly improved by showing more details in this area, but it does not cover basic weaving patterns.

Part 2 ends with a chapter on metal packaging which includes how choose wire, basic packaging techniques, and a section of Nice on how to use a metal template.

Thus, parts 1 and 2 occupy about half the book and really cover everything you need to know as a beginner. I should also mention that there are simple projects spread over two sections to you can put into practice what you learn as you go along.

Looking at this from the perspective of a beginner, I think Parts 1 and 2 of the book are all you really need.

Part 3 of the book consists mainly of pearls project, and while they are all very Fine jewelry, there are very few graphics showing step by step how to make parts. In my experience working with beginners I think many It would be difficult to make these pieces without detailed instructions or hands on help like a class or video.

If so I was a beginner, I would like to learn in Parts 1 and 2, and put the book on the shelf for a while, and then maybe revisit Part 3 later after acquiring more experience.

Part 4, in my opinion, goes off on a tangent that I do not think a lot of things to do with learning pearls and jewelry.

Things are covered, such as how to decorate objects with beads, jewelry making with children, organize a celebration of jewels, and advice about what to do if you want to turn your hobby into a jewelry company.

I would say the part on the activation your jewelry making hobby into a business has some very good advice, especially on how well the price of your jewelry. It shows you how to make sure that you include a cost for how long it takes you to a piece of jewelry. Most jewelry makers forget to do and it leads them to undercut significantly their jewelry.

The final section, Part 5: Part of tens is so named because it gives you three chapters of Top Tens. The top 10 leading suppliers are jewelry. It is good but a little dated. New suppliers have emerged since the publication of the book that are better than some listed in the book.

The top 10 is the second common jewelry making mistakes to avoid and tips very well to avoid the mistakes that beginners often do.

The 10 is the first third of ideas to make money selling your jewelry. There are some very good ideas in this section.

Overall, I recommend this book for beginners as a good resource to start. But keep in mind that if you're learning style is more suited to learning by seeing things in action, you may have difficulty learning beading by looking that this book simply because there is not much "How" of graphics.

The book is available in many bookstores and on Amazon.com.

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Eri Attebery operates
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