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In case you haven't seen it already, Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry received a wonderful advance review from Publishers Weekly, the definitive trade magazine for publishers in the United States.
Here's the text of the enthusiastic review:
"Opening this gorgeous hunk of a book is like walking into a high-end
jewelry gallery. There are 500 full-color photographs of beaded jewelry --
necklaces, rings, bracelets, pins and earrings -- created by 275 artists
with beads, wire, filament, and fiber. Some of the artists are well-known to
beaders, like Carol Wilcox Wells and Diane Fitzgerald, and some
not-so-well-known, with their work published for the first time. This makes
for a heady blend of inspiration, ideas, and expression. Editor Hemachandra
selected the 500 beaded objects from submissions by 360 artists from 30
countries. To his credit, no single style -- bead weaving, bead embroidery,
bead stringing -- gets short shrift. The photography is of high professional
standards, no Instagram shots by amateurs posted to Facebook, and is also
instructively illustrative of the beadwork, offering closeup shots that will
help the aspiring bead worker reproduce some of the techniques. One quibble:
it would have been nice to include the artists¹ countries of origin just
below the photo of their work instead of in the index, saving the reader a
lot of flipping back and forth. A list of artists¹ Web sites would have been
nice, too." - Publishers Weekly
