Classic Chain Mail Jewelry: A treasury of weaves

Classic Chain Mail Jewelry by Sue Ripsch is an average book of projects.

Unfortunately, this book is pretty much a case of "been there, done that". While the number of projects in the book is impressive, once you realize that some of those projects are exactly the same but with substitutions of twisted and/or square jump rings it becomes much less so.

After a bare bones introduction, the book moves into projects based across a wide range of weave families. The step by step instructions are sometimes a little hard to understand (I would say even more so for someone not familiar with the weaves being shown) and might work better if someone were over your shoulder to show you what was meant. Tutorial steps are shown with full color photos, which in some cases, are blurry / out of focus.

While this book does have a few nice projects included, there just aren't enough to make the book worthwhile.