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Great fun for beginners - Rated
As a complete beginner to chain maille, I thoroughly enjoyed this book because of the simplicity of the designs and the clarity of the diagrams. I don't think it pretends to to be a book for advanced work and if that's what you are looking for you will be disappointed as all the projects use open rings and not soldered ones. But if you have always wanted to try chain maille and been a bit daunted by its complicated look then this book will teach you many of the different patterns of chain maille with large and clear computer-generated diagrams using different colours of rings. The book progresses from simple to intermediate to more advanced projects but I have found all the projects enjoyable and easy to make because of the step-by-step diagrams and have even adapted some of them to my own designs. I thoroughly recommend this book to all budding chain maille jewellers.
Fairly basic - Rated
Whilst this is probably an ideal book for a beginner, anyone with even a small amount of experience in either chain or mail construction will quickly outstrip this book. Projects are generally made with inexpensive materials (copper, titanium wire, rubber O rings and so on) with a few using precious metals. The selection of tools required is basic and inexpensive, which will probably please those just starting!
Disappointingly, the rings are all unsoldered; there's remarkably little on finishing techniques and there are no tips on making the work easier (e.g. stopping the work moving around too much during assembly). The gallery section that runs to a couple of pages is quite good, however.
Reluctantly, I have to concede that the available online resources are a better bet, although they are usually devoted to armour.
