Twenty to Make: Bracelets

Twenty to Make: Bracelets
By Amanda Walker
Published by Search Press
ISBN 10 1-84448-276-6
Price: £4.99
Reviewed by Paula Newbery

This is an excellent book for someone embarking on bracelet making. There are, as the title states, instructions for making twenty bracelets, however once the techniques have been mastered this could extend to a lot more by mixing the techniques and using different combinations of beads and fastenings.

The tools needed are fairly basic - the kind of things that many family toolboxes would have anyway – pliers, wire cutters, scissors.The range of types of bracelets is imaginative, from beads threaded onto leather lacing, ribbon, elastic, cord and leather straps to those attached to silver and gold chains.Some can be made in a very short time; ‘love-me-knot’ requires one bead and some coiled and knotted leather lacing. Others take a little longer, requiring manipulating the eye pins and attaching the fastenings but all are well within reach of someone with reasonable dexterity.

I would have liked to see a list of suppliers in the book but both the Search Press and HotHive Textiles websites have a comprehensive list of suppliers and easy links to the relevant websites.

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