Japanese site, Barabara

christina, you forgot the link!

Mary

(blush) No wonder no one else responded! Thanks, Mary.

Thanks Tina!

susan in canada

I'm new here so forgive me for jumping in to this topic. Lately I've been hitting Japanese beading websites and, of course, I can't read the pages. HOWEVER, if you find a site you're interested in, go to

enter the URL and set the language for Japanese to English. You will get a word for word translation. I've found I read bad English grammer much better than I read excellent Japanese grammer. JoAnn

This sounds very interesting. How did you find the Japanese web sites? Could you give a link or two? I have two Japanese books with drool worthy designs, but no English directions. My girlfriend just came back from Japan and brought me another book and it has some English instructions! :-)

Mardel aka Beadviolet

so good. In my experience, anyway.<

I haven't seen many Japanese beading books (the few were just as Sooz said, though) but I've seen lots of cross-stitch books that were outstanding. Excellent photos AND charts. Mostly from Ondori publishing, who seems to do quite a lot of crafting books in Japan. A good graph is worth a thousand words.