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The note cards are exactly as they look. They come with 4 different beaded designs, 5 cards of each. There are 20 cards in each pack. It is a great value, and would make a nice present,but I'm keeping these.

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this was a gift to a great-niece for Christmas. She is 11 and involved in mountain man crafts with her father. she loves the books and has produced some nice pieces.

This book is loaded with patterns that are easy to follow. All designs represent a variety of American Indian nations as well as floral designs. They range in sizes. Patterns for both bead weaving/loom and applique. Very good source for ideas to use on regalia items or everyday wear.

This book has excellant patterns but no colored pics, makes it hard to visualize what you are creating, or like in most cases would like to change. The amount and quality of patterns is wonderful though and out weights the lack of pictures.

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This book was a bit of a disappointment. There is some instruction for doing beadwork, but the print is in a very small font--making it difficult to read. The only color pictures are on the front and back covers--using both sides of the cover. All charts are in black and white. The markings in the charts are rather light, making them difficult to see. The patterns are for loom or square stitch and applique only. The book does not do justice to the rich heritage of Native American art and the great diversity in their use of beadwork.

I have been beading on garments and needed more patterns. This book had several actual beading patterns as well as many applique patterns. It was a nice companion book to my native american beading pattern library.

This book has a lot of information for the traditional beader. Hope to use it took make regalia. The transaction was easy and the shipper was very fast.

Very nice. Displays full size patterns for beading. It had designs that I wasn't familiar with. Good Find for beginner to immediate beaders.

This book is loaded with patterns. They are laid out very well and easy to follow. It is not a technique book. One improvement would be that small pictures of the finished products would have helped with choosing patterns.

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I can only add to the other reviewers statement about seeing items and patterns before there was "authentic indian crafts as sold on Ebay". There is a wonderful section (several pages) that go over the beading patterns and what they represent when woven onto an item (by Nation) such as buffalo, wolves, rabbit tracks ect. I found that the best part of the book. Craft history buffs will love the information on historical beading and bead trade snippets. For the price you can't go wrong with this one.

originally published in 1919, this is a good, if very brief, basic reference. its age is a plus--the illustrations are of items that had, on the whole, not yet been influenced by tourist trade.there's a very short section on quillwork technique; a wonderful old photo of traditionally dressed blackfoot women, unfortunately without a date; and a section that isolates the components of beadwork designs, a benefit for those creating their own work.most of the few illustrations are from nations usually underrepresented--including assiniboin and arapaho.all in all, a worthwhile supplement to other, more comprehensive books.