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11-27-2004, 12:00 AM
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Title</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Description</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Author</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Geary, Theres Flores</td>
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<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Book</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Technique[s]</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Netting, Peyote, Wire stringing, Edge stitches and fretting, Apache or Comanche weave, Log cabin stitch, loom weaving.</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Tribe/region</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Skill level</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Beginner to Advanced</td>
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<td class="modulecell" colspan="2" width="80%" align="left">Quilty</td>
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Geary, Theresa Flores, Native American beadwork: Projects & Techniques from the Southwest. Sterling Publishing Co. Inc, New York, USA. 2003.</font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">ISBN 1-4027-0330-9, hard cover, 9 x 10¼ inches, 128 pages.
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">I am reviewing this book as a complete novice to Native American beadwork so I trust that my words will be seen in that light and the reader here will forgive any unwitting cultural faux pas that I might make.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">What I like about this book are all those things I need in any book on doing beadwork... good colourful photographs, clear and readable instructions, simple explanatory diagrams, and something of the character of the author shining through it all. Apart from graphed patterns, the "how to" diagrams in this book are great little photographs which show exactly where to put your next bead or what to be doing next with the needle. It is like having a beadwork tutor right there beside me, so how could I go wrong! </font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">The first chapter discusses some of the characteristics of Native American beadwork from the Southwest - bright colours, bold designs, extravagant beauty with natural themes, the designs embedded with symbols of spiritual significance - plus a little of the history of beadwork among the tribes of this region. The author paraphrases the words of Black Elk, a renowned holy man of the Lakota Sioux, that "the power of an object is in the symbolism" and goes on to explain that each project in this book highlights designs and symbols that can provide insight into the subtle meaning and beauty of the beaded objects. Beadwork, already supporting prayer and ceremony in its cultural context, is also given consideration as a therapy with healing effects for those who participate. The author, by the way, was taught beadwork by her mother and elders from the San Carlos Apache tribe.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">Susequent chapters are devoted each separately to a particular project. The skill level is defined at the beginning, and teach the making of such items as a Sonora-weave choker, a netted gourd, a floral bracelet, a bone-hair-pipe bracelet, a leather medicine bag, a triple-strand fetish necklace, bear earrings, Comanche-weave feather, a chile pepper, corn-stitch earrings, a Phoenix key ring, a Kokpelli amulet bag, a netted basket, a peyote basket, a powwow perfume bag, a Navajo bead rug, a Kokopelli pin, and a medicine wheel. I think my favourite has to be anything Kokopelli which I have always associated with the Southwest and enjoy as the bright little flute-playing folk character that symbolizes fertility.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">There are graphs and patterns provided for those projects that need them, and three different types of graph paper to photocopy freely as required. A comprehensive glossary also illustrated with colour photographs concludes the text. This is a nice book to browse with some interesting projects to make.</font></p></p></td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Title</td>
<td class="modulecell" colspan="2" width="80%" align="left">Native American Beadwork: Projects and Techniques from the Southwest</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="20%" valign="top" align="left">Description</td>
<td class="modulecell" colspan="2" width="80%" align="left">Native American (Southwest) beadwork projects</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Author</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Geary, Theres Flores</td>
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<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Book</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Technique[s]</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Netting, Peyote, Wire stringing, Edge stitches and fretting, Apache or Comanche weave, Log cabin stitch, loom weaving.</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Tribe/region</td>
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<td class="modulecell" width="5%" valign="top" align="left">Skill level</td>
<td colspan="2" class="modulecell" width="95%" align="left">Beginner to Advanced</td>
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<td class="modulecell" colspan="2" width="80%" align="left">Quilty</td>
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Geary, Theresa Flores, Native American beadwork: Projects & Techniques from the Southwest. Sterling Publishing Co. Inc, New York, USA. 2003.</font></p>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">ISBN 1-4027-0330-9, hard cover, 9 x 10¼ inches, 128 pages.
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<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">I am reviewing this book as a complete novice to Native American beadwork so I trust that my words will be seen in that light and the reader here will forgive any unwitting cultural faux pas that I might make.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">What I like about this book are all those things I need in any book on doing beadwork... good colourful photographs, clear and readable instructions, simple explanatory diagrams, and something of the character of the author shining through it all. Apart from graphed patterns, the "how to" diagrams in this book are great little photographs which show exactly where to put your next bead or what to be doing next with the needle. It is like having a beadwork tutor right there beside me, so how could I go wrong! </font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">The first chapter discusses some of the characteristics of Native American beadwork from the Southwest - bright colours, bold designs, extravagant beauty with natural themes, the designs embedded with symbols of spiritual significance - plus a little of the history of beadwork among the tribes of this region. The author paraphrases the words of Black Elk, a renowned holy man of the Lakota Sioux, that "the power of an object is in the symbolism" and goes on to explain that each project in this book highlights designs and symbols that can provide insight into the subtle meaning and beauty of the beaded objects. Beadwork, already supporting prayer and ceremony in its cultural context, is also given consideration as a therapy with healing effects for those who participate. The author, by the way, was taught beadwork by her mother and elders from the San Carlos Apache tribe.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">Susequent chapters are devoted each separately to a particular project. The skill level is defined at the beginning, and teach the making of such items as a Sonora-weave choker, a netted gourd, a floral bracelet, a bone-hair-pipe bracelet, a leather medicine bag, a triple-strand fetish necklace, bear earrings, Comanche-weave feather, a chile pepper, corn-stitch earrings, a Phoenix key ring, a Kokpelli amulet bag, a netted basket, a peyote basket, a powwow perfume bag, a Navajo bead rug, a Kokopelli pin, and a medicine wheel. I think my favourite has to be anything Kokopelli which I have always associated with the Southwest and enjoy as the bright little flute-playing folk character that symbolizes fertility.</font></p>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">There are graphs and patterns provided for those projects that need them, and three different types of graph paper to photocopy freely as required. A comprehensive glossary also illustrated with colour photographs concludes the text. This is a nice book to browse with some interesting projects to make.</font></p></p></td>
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