Victoria Inman

Wow, this is pretty well useless. It's possible that if you already knew how to make a beaded cap, you could extract the instructions from the muddled mess here...but I certainly can't. I've done one pattern of kumihimo, and I think I could use that knowledge to understand the braiding pattern - but if I didn't already know how kumihimo worked, this certainly wouldn't explain to me. Definitely not the basics. And despite doing quite a bit of kumihimo, other braiding, and weaving, I have no show more clue what the book is trying to say about warping - why do you tie a bobbin on with an extra string? At what point does the string get wrapped around the bobbin? And how do you make a 12-strand braid using "The warps ...should be 30cm in length, and each should con­tain at least 15 threads per warp"? Is it saying to use something like sewing thread and make 15 threads per braiding strand? Why? Ghahh. Oh yes, and quite a few pages are taken up by explaining what "scissors" and "thread" and "cardboard" are... The formatting problems don't help - the words are on one page, the picture they're describing are on the next - followed on the same page by the next set of words. And each section of the TOC is a separate page. I could manage that, though, if the information was actually useful. I do intend to try the patterns the author gives - all two of them - because I'm testing out different kumihimo patterns so that I'll understand them. But I'm very glad I got this book for free, because if I'd paid for it I'd be deeply unhappy. show less