Guide to Beading with a Loom: From Start to Finish and Beyond Kindle Edition

This is the best book for beginners and a little beyond for seed bead loom beginners.Book has clear, concise How to illustrations.Have went through several books on looming, but this one is the best.

I rarely give anything a 5 star rating because something has to be truly exceptional for me to give it a perfect score. This books earns my 5 star rating because it is very comprehensive. I have other beading loom books that have left me scratching my head trying to figure out how to do something because the author skips over important information. Not this author. This book is so well written that you could hand it to a beginner who has never used a beading loom or even used seed beads before and they could get it right the first time they tried.However, this book also covers advanced techniques such as edging techniques, adding fringe, adding beads off the side and using beads other than seed beads in your looming.This book is over 900 pages and provides multiple patterns and projects that are used to teach you starting from a basic design to advanced designs.

This is a book for any level of loom bead work. She explains about a lot of things with different types of bead looms and techniques. I am self taught. I simply got a loom and followed the in box directions. I learned the hard way some of the things this book explains. I also learned a better way to do some techniques. There are diagrams and pictures to help with explanations. Most are in color, diagrams are detailed. Patterns present explain best type of loom and techniques to make. This is a book to make bead looming easier to understand and do. I have the Kindle version. This means I can enlarge diagrams for better visualization.

After all the stellar reviews I was disappointed. I was hoping for some solid fundamentals but this portion of the instruction seemed sketchy and inarticulate. For example, I read the No-Warp Looms section several times and couldn't make sense of it. I now know what it means after finishing later sections but the lack of a definining overview was disorienting. Other elementary sections were also somewhat opaque, especially instruction on where to tie knots, and I'm left with what I've gleaned for free off the internet. There were good comments about weft tension and the instructions for the "standard" method of finishin off weft threads was more useful than the myriad of other internet examples because it gives you the why so you don't have to mindlessly memorize someone elses step-by-step.But, curiously, as you progress into more advanced topics the writing and instruction is clearer. I'd say this book best serves those who want to go a little beyond a simple rectangular weave using, for example, fancy edges, folds or holes. There also appear to be good instructions for finishing ends for bracelets.

Has the basics that you need and how to expand designs. I have the Kindle version and I wonder if illustrations are set up better in print.--could be that I just like a print version for technical information.

While the book has less projects than I anticipated (based solely on the cover), I found the book to be an excellent reference book.The book explains fundamental things such as "warp too wide" and "warp to narrow" with explanations on how you can adjust. The pictures are in color, so it is easy to see how it should look. Probably the most important thing I came away with was the "Pull and Pray" method of warping, which leaves you with only 2 warp threads to weave (yay!). Her suggestion to use nylon for the warp thread is priceless; you won't split a nylon thread as you are weaving.Since findings to finish bracelets can be quite dear, the book gives you a number of options for finishing your project. Included in this is a "cap" using Ultra Suede or felt (teeny, tiny pieces) that allows you to use almost any type of finding to finish.Most of the projects have variations that let you use your favorite colorway, and some of them have ways of using different size beads.This is the book to buy if you are a beginner or even intermediate loom beader. If you are the type of crafter that can run with an idea, get it!

I started using a beading loom a few months ago. I bought a kit and made the bracelet that case with that kit. I bought this book to help me understand more about what I can do. And it did not disappoint!! Very detailed instructions that are easy enough for beginners. And a lot of explanations about looms, beads and threads. I have never made bead accessories before but I thought I would like this because I like cross stitch. I just finished the first project. I changed the colors but other than that I followed the book.I’m looking forward to making more bracelets.

This book is great for the beginner as well as the experienced. The step by step process and projects are great as they inspire the beginner and it helps avoid frustrations while beading in a loom for the first time. The descriptions for the techniques are clear.The chapter where it shows the different looms provides a great baseline for the beginner as to where to start when it comes to decide the loom to use for the first time. It is a very good reference guide for the experienced. The projects are great and inspire the experienced as well as the beginner. They serve as a starting point and can be built upon to arrive at a larger finished project.