Coastal Gnome (https://www.ebay.com/str/coastalgnome) offers for your consideration:

The Illustrated BEAD BIBLE ~ Terms, Tips & Techniques ~ Theresa Flores Geary.

From the back of Dust Jacket:

“From Abalone to Zipper Stitch, this profusely illustrated guide covers a broad range of beading subjects and presents encyclopedic entries on historical background, technical details, and cultural customs. Includes :

* A comprehensive A-to-Z listing of rose-petal, fertility, wampum, wedding, sacrifice, punter Viking, and other beads.

* An instructional guide on buying materials and mastering techniques.

* Essential tables and charts on bead shapes, needle and thread sizes, germ stones and birthstones, the Mohs scale of hardness, and more.

* Drawing of twenty-one common stitches, knotting and finishing techniques, and three graphs.”

Book Title / Year & Format / Condition :

the illustrated bead bible / 2008, Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket / Very Good, *Normal wear. NO rips, tears or marks noted in BOOK. Corner of book is slightly crushed - see last photo for magnified view. Dust Jacket has protected book well. A couple of Tears along edge of jacket, most notably on the upper edge of spine.

*Normal wear - books may show wear around edges /corners, as expected due to reading. May have slightly bent corners.. Due to age, pages/edges may be Tanned/yellowed. No rips, tear or marks on pages UNLESS noted in condition.

While we did not check every page individually, we did look at a sufficiently large sampling of pages to convince ourselves that our assessment of the condition of these books is accurate.

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