Review on 📚 The Ultimate Filet Crochet Book: Innovative Designs for Cross-Stitch, Beadwork, and More, Featuring a Fresh Pattern Representation Approach (Classic Reprint) by Gelin Battle

This rating is solely on the quality of the book and is NOT meant to reflect badly on the seller. This book is a reprint of an old brochure and was presented as such in the description, so I have no problem with that aspect. What was disappointing is that the playback lacks copy quality. The booklet is essentially a collection of crochet patterns presented as charts. Character recognition of the scanned image was missing on about 50% of the brochure pages, resulting in templates not printing completely or simply missing large parts. I don't know if every print of this brochure comes out the same quality, I suspect it will, so it would be reasonable to expect all copies to be of the same poor quality. The scanning process works well for most written text, and these old book reprints are usually fine for written text. However, the scanning process does not work well for detailed images or small photos. Yes, you can figure out the missing parts of the patterns, but honestly, if I wanted to, I'd just draw the pattern myself. This booklet is still available and I found and ordered the original vintage copy here at Revain to replace this booklet. If you want the original crochet patterns to work I would recommend looking for the original booklet as the quality of the pattern is much higher. Please understand again that this is an honest assessment of the brochure and the scanning process used. this is not a negative review of the printer - and you should not be afraid to purchase these scanned reprints, just be aware that there is some risk if the contents of the books contain graphics or photos. I think the printers are to be commended for their efforts in bringing these old books to the public, but there are scan quality issues that technology just can't solve when you're working with old text and old images. Great book, excellent sirloin crochet patterns but disappointing that they are not fully printed. I think the printers are to be commended for their efforts in making these old books available to the public, but there are scan quality issues that technology simply cannot solve. if you work with old texts and old pictures. Great book, excellent sirloin crochet patterns but disappointing that they are not fully printed. I think the printers are to be commended for their efforts in bringing these old books to the public, but there are scan quality issues that technology just can't solve when you're working with old text and old images. Great book, excellent sirloin crochet patterns but disappointing that they are not fully printed. This technology simply cannot be solved when working with old text and old images. Great book, excellent sirloin crochet patterns but disappointing that they are not fully printed. This technology simply cannot be solved when working with old text and old images. Great book, excellent sirloin crochet patterns but disappointing that they are not fully printed.