Jewellery Materials Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to Materials, Gemstones and Settings

I had to return this book for a refund not because of the content but because of its production style. The print is extremely tiny, very pale grey on white shiny paper, that creates a strobe effect around the typeface. It was so hard to read I could not to examine the content. I think anyone without really clear eyesight will struggle with reading it. It is a shame that publishers can't print text that is sight friendly. I understand that some people get really annoyed when people review without reading but I though it important to warn those who are like me sight compromised that there is an issue about it.

Pleasant surprise. It is a really useful book that gives a very brief description on tecniques etc. I have used this book extensively.

As a budding amateur jewellery designer-I found this book really easy to understand and follow-plus it has opened up the door to other techniques and resources I hadn't even thought of.

great value, great product, and I can no longer find in stores any more, I have ordered a second one as it makes great gift.

Really useful book to use as a reference guide.

Great overview of materials and techniques for making jewellery, using precious and non-precious metals, as well as other materials like ceramics and bone. I have a lot of jewellery making books, and I still learned some new things from this one. I like that it includes some little tricks for getting certain effects in different ways, depending on what tools or abilities you might have to work with. It covers a lot of surface effects. This is a great addition to any jeweller's library.

This book covers pretty much everything you might use in jewellery making, including things not always mentioned elsewhere, for example different ways to use natural materials such as wood, shell, leather, feathers, newer media - acrylics, resin, paper etc, as well as all the standard metals, stones and so on. Gives step by step methods for everything - setting, casting, colouring, I could go on and on. One proviso is that as usual with books that cover so many topics it might give the impression that a method is simpler than it actually is, but has some of the clearest explanations I have come across and definitely has the widest range of topics I have found in one volume.Would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to expand the range of jewellery they produce as it offers so many techniques perhaps not explored before, particularly in view of the excellent price compared to other jewellery reference books.

A very well presented and informative reference book covering large areas of jewellery making. Nice size. I especially like the spiral binding as it can lie flat, so as not to loose the page when you can come back and look at it while you are experimenting.