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: Agates
Author: Johann Zenz
ISBN#: 3-925094-85-7

 An excerpt from the inside back cover

"Agate - Natures fascinating micro-cosmos in stone.  Hardly any other of Nature's works of art has the same attraction on people, develops the fantasy or promotes the creativity as much as this beautiful stone.  This unique and comprehensive book with about 2,000 photographs of wonderful agates from around the world is a testimony to the passion of agate collecting and provides an overview of worldwide agate deposits.  This work will take you on an unbelievable trip  through the fascinating world of agates to visit places on the globe, producing Nature's most precious treasures."

This is a gorgeous book. It has some of the most amazing photographs I have ever seen of agates and all the information you could ever want concerning their history, properties, formation, mining, uses, dying, and processing of these beautiful stones.  This is one of my favorite books.  This seems to be a tough book to find - I got my copy in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, at the Museum giftshop.