KatieO Recommended Jewelry Books!

KatieO has an immense collection of jewelry related books from all over the world. Many of these books can be found on amazon.com. You will find a link to this book as well as purchase information in the amazon.com section of this page. KatieO highly recommends these books as they have been an invaluable asset to her collection, and a means to increase her knowledge of the jewelry components she uses in her designs.

Title: Africa Adorned
Author: Angela Fisher
ISBN#: 978-0810918238

An excerpt from the inside front cover

"...These remarkable adornments are not merely decorative, as visually striking as they may be.  They speak of values and beliefs, of achievements and status: they play roles in ritual and ceremony, they act as safeguards against evil or disease, they serve as a means of propitiating ancestors or gods.

First fascinated by its pure beauty, Angela Fisher has examined African adornment for over seven years, initially as a traveler and then increasingly as a close student of jewelry and body decoration.  Traveling from the Sahara to Cape Horn, she has lived among peoples of diverse culture, studying and photographing not only what they wear but what meaning the objects and decorative forms have in their daily lives"