Fabulous woven jewelry Plaiting, coiling, knotting, looping & twining with fiber & metal

Wire jewelry making is very popular with beaders and other crafters because it requires only a few tools and minimal practice to produce attractive pieces. These three books utilize numerous bead types and offer step-by-step projects for making earrings, necklaces, and brooches. While all feature color illustrations of the finished pieces, fiber artist Hettmansperger's Fabulous Woven and wire jewelry workshop instructor Jones's Making Colorful provide color photos of individual steps. Additionally, Hettmansperger's book shows how to use fiber and basketry materials and techniques to create embellished pouch pendants with a primitive, ethnic flavor. All three books would make prudent additions to public library craft collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.