--This book will keep alive ancestral techniques and expertise for future generations of artists, craftspeople, designers, curators and students. --Photos and exact how-to instructions for the rest of the world, for the beautiful methods that have never before been captured outside the Touareg culture. --Reveals details about how this craft impacts the lifestyles and legacies of a little-known people. --The author's goals are inspiring.* *I am writing this book to honor and preserve the expertise of Touareg artisans by showing the step-by-step processes of timeless pieces made in metal, leather, wood and other materials through photos and text. All the research will be done with the direct inclusion and collaboration of the Touareg artisans themselves. Many factors such as conflicts, natural disasters, pandemics and especially the inevitable passing of an older master artisan threaten the loss of ancestral techniques and knowledge to a point where younger generations no longer know how certain steps were done. This book will be a powerful reference for future artisans worldwide as well as an unprecedented source of information for anyone with an interest in Touareg culture and artifacts.

--As an established leader in the jewelry industry, Tim McCreight who will design this book (founder of Brynmorgen Press) will promote along with the author. He has worldwide contacts and distributors in the UK, Europe, and Canada. Tim and author Cheminee have both consulted for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Have both been professors at art colleges, Matthieu in Montreal and Tim in Portland, Maine. Tim has served on several boards in the jewelry industry, including the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.