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by Carles Codina Hardcover Book Description What makes a piece of jewelry special isn't the cost--it's the creativity, novelty, and originality that go into the design. And this imaginative and informative compendium of jewelry-making techniques, packed with more than 700 color images and written by the noted jeweler and instructor Carles Codina, features a range of contemporary alternative materials. From paper, wood, and polymer clay to glass, new metal formats, and plastics, each material receives detailed attention, with the key techniques demonstrated in a single, finished project. Mold and embellish paper clay to create a whimsical brooch. Fold rice paper into a sculptural bracelet. To finish in style, there are six additional items to make that build upon earlier skills, including a necklace of hollow ceramic orbs. |
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by Jackie Truty Paperback |
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by Sherri Haab Paperback Book Description Developed in Japan in the early 1990s, metal clay represents a dramatic development in the handling of precious metals for jewelrymaking. Metal clay consists of microscopic particles of silver or gold suspended in a pliable organic binder that can be worked with the hands and simple household tools, eliminating the need for difficult metalworking processes such as soldering, hammering, and cutting. When metal clay is fired, the binder burns away and the metal particles fuse into pure (99.9 percent) metal. The Art of Metal Clay is a comprehensive introduction to the medium designed specifically for crafters and jewelrymakers, detailing the essentials of working, firing, and finishing metal clay to create beautiful jewelry and decorative objects. Artist and instructor Sherri Haab demonstrates metal clay's remarkable versatility, showing how it can be textured, molded, carved, and sculpted to create gorgeous beads, bracelets, pendants, earrings, rings, and other jewelry settings, plus boxes and vessels. She also reveals how to combine metal clay with polymer clay, glass, and epoxy resin to create unique mixed-media pieces. An essential resource for anyone who wants the latest information on this up-and-coming crafts medium! |
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by Nana V. Mizushima Paperback Book Description Packed with color photos showing each step of working with metal clay. |
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by Maryann Devos Paperback Fine book teaching the foundation of PMC work. |
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by Tim McCreight Paperback Book Description Working with Precious Metal Clay is the first American book for artists and hobbyists who want to know more about this exciting new art material. Techniques are taught through 50 projects of increasing complexity, projects that range from earrings to rings to accessories like a thimble, spoon and tea strainer. A large section called Technical Tips offers practical information on working, firing and finishing PMC, and a final chapter on tools shows some studio aids you can make for yourself. "Working with PMC" features over 400 full color illustrations that lead artists systematically through the steps needed to make personal and exciting work. |
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by Carles Codina Hardcover Book Description New Book, comes out August 2006!!! |
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by Elizabeth Olver Hardcover Excellent Reference book full of ideas and lots of pictures! |
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by Elizabeth Olver Hardcover Book Description This visually stunning guide provides readers with the techniques and advice they need to transform jewelry designs into reality. First it examines the basic elements of design, including size, material, function and color. Next it considers the conceptual style in which the crafter wants to make the piece, such as geometric, figurative, and organic. Each design concept is explored with a discussion of its main characteristics and how they can be conveyed through jewelry design as well as an overview of the essential tools needed to create each design element. |
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by Sharon Bateman Paperback Fantastic guide to clasps! |
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by Sharilyn Miller Paperback Book Description Magazine editor and popular author Sharilyn Miller knows the jewelry making audience like no one else. In this latest book, she shows crafters of all levels how to get in on the popularity of jewelry and beading, with: -An in-depth section on design and construction techniques that makes it a snap to get started -More than 20 step-by-step bead and wire jewelry projects, including gorgeous earrings, necklaces, brooches, and bracelets It only takes a few basic steps to start making fashionable jewelry that's guaranteed to trigger compliments. |
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by Jinks McGrath Hardcover THE BOOK TO OWN! |
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by Robert Von Neumann Paperback Lots of great information! |
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by Elizabeth Olver Paperback |
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by Mark Lareau Paperback Book Description The step-by-step techniques featured in this richly illustrated book take the beginner who knows little about wirework on a journey to creating artistic and unique free-form jewelry. Using round wire that is readily available and economically viable, wireworkers learn everything from how to hold pliers to how to make ear wires, hook-and-eye closures, and cages for marbles and cabochons. Line drawings, photographs of finished objects, and a wirework gallery of pieces by the author and other contemporary wirework artists provide sample creations and ideas for the innovative wireworker. |
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by Mickey Baskett Paperback Book Description Spirals, coils, wraps, and wire mesh add up to a kind of jewelry that...can go from pieces of scrap to ear, neck, or hair in a couple of hours...the directions for 66 varieties of adornment featured here...including diagrams, designer credit, color photographs, materials lists, and step-by-step instructions...are whimsical enough for having great fun and feature such familiar characters as Santa and a bride and groom, and such creatures as a dragonfly and a spider. |
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by Christine Ritchey, Linda L Chandler Paperback Fantastic guide book! |
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by Glen Waszek Paperback Book Description Beginners can start with a simple trace design. Switch from round to square wire, adapt the chain to a pendant, or use small oval links for a sophisticated look. Transform trace chains into flat-lying curb chains by twisting each link. Or, try distinctively round loop-in-loop pieces. This range of chains really sparkles and shines. |
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by Jinks McGrath Paperback Book Description With this ring... The significance of the ring throughout the world is evidenced in its place among the most common of jewelry. This book provides the artist with the principles and basic necessities for making rings, including plain bands, D sections, double bands, and hollow rings. Jewelry from international artists is featured in a full color callery for inspiration and encouragement. The history of the ring is explored, as well as ring making, metal selection, and ring forming techniques, including fusing, texturing and enameling. Clear, step by step photos demonstrate soldering, shaping, annealing, and forging. Also featured are ring decorating methods, as well as ten mounts, nine settings, and a stones chart for identifying specific decorative stones. |
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by Stephen O'Keeffe Paperback Book Description Making jewelry at a professional level has never been so simple with this new guide. Inexpensive materials and cleverly adapted traditional methods make success inevitable. A book for all skill levels, every technique is photographed step by step with thorough explanation of common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Includes more than 50 original and stunning projects such as an ocatgonal ring, domed ear studs, a forged choker, and a brass bangle. The valuable introduction presents basic skills of simple jewelry making, how to build a collection of tools, types of metal to use and the best design techniques. |
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by Jinks McGrath Paperback Book Description Enameling has a deserved reputation for being one of the most difficult of all media over which to obtain real control. After learning the basic techniques, producing beautiful jewelry is relatively simple; then practice, diligence, and discipline are the only tools needed to master the craft. Doubling as a beginner’s manual and an essential reference guide, First Steps in Enameling contains all the information readers need to know to get started. Learn what to consider when choosing and using a kiln, acquiring necessary tools, buying precious metals, and selecting and preparing enamels. Step-by-step instructions mix with inspiration to show basic wet and dry techniques for different metals, and different colors and types of enamels. Incorporating the major principles of both design and technique, these 20 flexible projects encourage beginners to practice skills and be inventive. |
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by Elizabeth Mears Paperback You can easily form beads, candlesticks, and art objects from just a rod of cold glass and a torch. Heat it, manipulate it a bit, and almost instantaneously beautiful and new figures emerge from the fire. That's flameworking. A top teacher of the craft explains how to do it all, providing exactly the same information and exercises she gives her beginner's workshops. Lavish illustrations capture the entire artistic process. Look into the different types of glass to choose from, and find out how to melt a ball at different points of the rod; flatten it into a disc; and shape it into hearts, wings, butterflies, and the moon. Turn those designs into jewelry, hanging sculptures, and stirrers. The results are amazing! |
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