The authors provide a history and overview of equipment used in seed beading. They then explain such elaborate processes as tubular beaded crochet. Twenty-five projects focus on a different tool or technique, complete with graphs, list of materials, size and measurements, diagrams and directions.

Beading books tend to concentrate on one technique and ignore or only briefly mention other ones. Here we find a wealth of methods and projects. For each, instructions come first, after breezing through a history and overview of equipment, the authors emphasise the how to in such elaborate processes as tubular beaded crochet. All complete with colour graphs, list of materials, size and measurements, a colour photo, diagrams and directions.