Jamie Cloud EakinGuide to Beading with a Loom: From Start to Finish and Beyond

This book is great for a beginner in bead weaving. It covers each step and includes warnings and fixes for common errors.

The beading part of this book seems to be very informative. That part will help me learn the various designs. However, in the middle of the book between pages 62 and 63, are several pages of a children’s book called Wade Through the Pandemic. No mention of this in the book description, no way to remove the section without ruining my book. Just not sure how it got there.

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!

very detailed. very good content. It showed a great deal I had not seen before after three years at looming. I learned a great deal. Thank you.

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.

I’m always looking for a different way to end loom projects. This has some good ideas

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.

I feel terrible writing a less-than-stellar review when it comes to someone else's creativity, but I feel I'm being generous with three stars. I bought the book based on the better reviews and was hoping for a "younger, hipper" version of loom books I already own. I did a bit of looming 20 or so years ago and am now getting back into it, so I'd wanted to pick up some new techniques. There weren't any and as others have said, the designs are a bit hokey. Given that the book is so expensive, I can't justify keeping it, so it's going back for a refund.Even though the following books are oldies, they're goodies: Don Pierce's Beading on a Loom and Sharon Bateman's Contemporary Loom Beading. I'd recommend them for better techniques and information (but again, the projects leave something to be desired; Pierce's book doesn't have any projects, but does have an interesting gallery of arty loomed pieces).

This a great book I had just recently purchased a loom and was looking for some help to get started on the right footThe patterns are fun as well

Excellent book for beginners. Shows different styles of patterns.

Gorgeous book and a great addition to my bead book collection. Perfect for any beginner and gives great ideas and lessons for advanced users too. The book had some dents in it but Amazon customer service took care of that and fixed the situation. I am super happy!!

Fantastic practical guide for a beginner like me. VERY usable Kindle edition with great, goodlooking layout too.

First time trying to use a loom. Thanks for the easy to follow directions.