A review by jar7709
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina

3.0

I want to crochet a hyperbolic plane! So, I ordered this book in the hopes it would help in that quest, as well as give some background and an increased understanding of the relevant mathematics. Mission sort-of accomplished. Yes, there are instructions for crocheting your own example, and yes there's a fair amount of history, but still this book was not quite what I was expecting. The instructions are not written for the basic-knowlege crocheter and are not set out as clearly as I am used to seeing in "project" books. Turns out, this is not a project book...more a ramble of thoughts by the author, a mathematician who came into fiber arts fame through the back door, in a way. It shows. I think this book would have benefited greatly by having a co-author, someone who came out of the fiber art instruction world and could have helped to include more novice - friendly patterning and discussion.

I'm still going to try to make my own hyperbolic plane example, though. I'll let you know how it turns out.