Bead Weaving Elegance is translated from Japanese to English and edited by Jules & Kaethe Kliot.  There are 44 pages of bead woven jewelry an lamp cover, all exquisite beadwork and made on a bead loom.  Some of the items replicate vintage jewelry and others are more contemporary in design.  Each one has an identification label with a number next to it that designates the pages with instructions to make it.  There are necklaces, pins, bracelets, earrings, purses, corsages and tiny parasols.  Many of the bags are woven in panels or sections and pieced together.

Loom weaving instructions are provided along with illustrations of the basics steps to weaving.  For each project, step by step photographs, a graph, a finished photo of the piece and finishing instructions for dangles, edging and clasps are provided.  There are several small projects such as earrings and pins that would make fast projects compared to the extensive time most the larger bags would require.

There are split woven necklaces and sections braided together and then woven again.  Some necklaces include bead netting worked between weaving sections.  Floral pieces are worked in sections and then combined together for corsages.

My favorite is the Reticule on page 80, with panels that are woven and then stitched together and then bead fringe added along the stitch lines.   The basic pattern gave me many ideas for making bags using various techniques and fibers along with beads.

There is a whole alphabet worked with loom weaving and graphed out for your use.  They can be added to beaded or fiber apparel and other items.   There are examples using letters as a repeat motif in a bag and a letter worked onto a tiny emblem.

There are also instructions for adding metal chains between strips of weaving, making circular and ruffle forms for tiny lanterns and different length bookmarks.  At the back of the book is an informational page on loom weaving techniques and an explanation with illustrations of weaving with two needles versus one.   The instructions at the front of the book uses the one needle method.  All the beads used in the projects are Japanese Toho beads and a color chart is provided on the back page with numbers next to each color that is referenced in each project.

Finally there is a Japanese loom weaving book in English in addition to those written in Japanese.  After going through Bead Weaving Elegance with the English translation, it should be easy to go back through any books you own that are written in Japanese and be able to better comprehend the illustrations provided.   All the patterns can be worked in square stitch for those who prefer square stitch to loom weaving.  These patterns can also be adapted to bead knitting and bead crochet with the graphs as a guide.