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Beautiful Book -
This is one of my favorite books. Beautiful photos. Wonderful book for lampworking inspiration. If you're a beadmaker or jewelry maker this book is a must have.

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Great photos of fabulous beads -
This is one of the best of the Lark publishing series of 500 glass objects and 500 brooches. The photos are first rate and the selection is overwhelming. I put tags to mark my favorites and to show my students when I teach glass fusing. Even though the book is about lampworking, glass fusers can learn from the great combinations of color, unique design ideas and really high quality beads. I only wish there was a newer edition with the newest group of beads from beadmakers who continue to develop even more interesting beads.

Just beautiful!! -
This is essentially a picture book of beads. If you're looking for a book to show you how to make beads, then this is not it. There is no instruction provided. If you make lampworked beads and you're looking for inspiration, then this is a must have. The photography is well done and in full color. The beads are just breathtaking and awe inspiring.

Incredible -
If you make jewelry, or make handmade lampwork beads, this book is a treasure trove of incredible work.

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Eye candy for bead lovers -
First, I probably need to say I'm a bit biased, as a bracelet and beads of mine are in this book. Regardless, if you are a bead lover, you can get so captivated by the beads in this book that hours go by unnoticed.

As a beadmaker and a jewelry maker, I was mesmerized trying to figure out all the different techniques and thinking of ways I could use all these gorgeous beads. The variety of styles, colors and techniques is very broad. Even in the few years since this has been published, though, hundreds of new tools and types of glass are now available that were not when images were submitted for this book - makes me think it's time for "Volume II"! Even so, there is more than enough in this book to put any bead lover in a trance.

As others have mentioned, this book is NOT a how-to or project book in any way, shape or form. It's a beautifully produced, colorful catalog of work by many bead artists. There is even a list by name and location in the back in case you want to find a particular artist (I know - I was contacted by another local glass artist).

If there is any 'criticism', at least in my opinion, it is the lack of some sort of logical organization. (Or if there was one, I obviously wasn't logical enough to grasp it!) But that really didn't detract as each page was sort of like opening a present. Similar to how beadmakers (and probably others that use kilns) feel when they open the kiln in the morning - it's like Christmas everyday! You know what you put in, but glass+heat+oxygen+fuel combines in ways that you often cannot predict. (OK, some days it seems as though Santa decided you'd been bad this 'year'... Even so, it's exhilarating to open the kiln!)

Lark Books' whole series of "500..." (or in this case "1000...") books are all gorgeous and fuel for your creativity!

Beth Boal