Product Description

This informative guide teaches you the essential knots and techniques of Micro-Macrame and Cavandoli knotted jewelry. Clear step-by-step instructions along with useful tips will inspire the beginner as well as the more advanced knotter. Included are 10 great jewelry projects for earrings, bracelets, pins and necklaces. 80 pages with over 130 black and white detailed illustrations. Explore the possibilities of using fine-scale macrame in combination with beads to create jewelry that is both beautiful to look at and fun to make.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #230072 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-14
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Review
If your idea of macrame art is plant hangers made of jute, Santa Fe jewelry artist Joan Babcock has an update for you. Using silky "micro" cords and mastering just a few simple knots, beaders can expand their design repertoire to include delicate macrame elements in their projects. Babcock's book offers very clear instructions, excellent diagrams and ten enticing projects. --Beadwork, October/November 2006

This wonderful book effectively translates several traditional knots into tailored, seemingly woven pieces created from fine, richly colored cord. -- Bead and Button Magazine, February 20, 2006

This wonderful book effectively translates several traditional knots into tailored, seemingly woven pieces created from fine, richly colored cord. The excellent black-and-white illustrations make creating the complex pieces possible for everyone, and the extra attention devoted to finishing was a pleasant surprise. --Bead and Button Magazine, February 2006

About the Author
Joan Reeder Babcock is a fiber artist, award winning jewelry designer, teacher, and author who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Joan has been creating one of a kind jewelry and fiber art since 1988. Her unique style of fiber, bead, and metal jewelry highlights the technique of Cavandoli knotting and her work has been featured in Ornament, Beadwork and Bead and Button magazines. She has been teaching nationally since 2004 and published her first book; Micro-Macrame Jewelry, Tips & Techniques for Knotting with Beads, in October 2005. Samples of her work can be seen at joanbabcock.com.

Customer Reviews

Inspiring and easy to follow
While googling around to find some inspiration for my new found interest micro-macramé I found Joan Babcock's site. And I was in awe! So naturally, when I found out she had written a book on the subject I had to have it.

The book consists of three parts: basic info on nine basic knots, tools and materials; projects and a part with tips on how to end a macramé piece, calculate the lenght of threads needed etc. The middle section includes all in all ten project ranging from earrings to necklaces in different micro-macramé and cavandoli techniques. Some with just a few beads, others with more. Very colourful and very modern, far for the 70's and black or beige hemp.

The pages in the book are in black and white. While I at first felt something was lost with the b&w photos of the finished projects, I found that all the projects were featured in full colour on the cover. So I can still get a good look at how they are supposted to turn out. I does mean I flip between the pages and the cover though. As for the illustrations, also in b&w, I find they are very well made with great detail and I find that they are at least just as good as step-by-step photos. In fact, they are better as you are not distracted by details and colours unlike in photos. I guess a person used to photo directions might feel a bit at loss in the beginning, but this type of illustrations are just positive as far as I see it.

The book starts from the basic and does a very good job describing the techniques for beginners. But I think a total newbie might want to try some of the simple projects you can find online or in Bead & Buttons booklet first. Joan Babcock's projects can perhaps feel a bit daunting otherwise.But I dare say this is still a very good book for everyone interested in this type of jewellery making. I'm very satisfied with my purchase!

Mini macrame jewelry
Ms Babcock's book is a welcome change from the old "clunky" type macrame. I am a jewelry beader who has also done macrame in the past. Being able to blend this micro macrame with jewelry designs is so much fun! It has "jump started" my creative juices to do designs of my own using both beads and macrame. The directions in the book are very complete, resulting in your end product being just like what is pictured in the book. I recommend this book to beaders and macrame artists as well.

Too expensive for black and white book!!
Tis book has poor images or almost no color images at all. The step by step solutions are made with black and white poor drawings wich leave so many doubts in the process because they are not very detayled. As the process goes on the above situations are represented in a very stylised way. Too expensive for the information included.