Decorative Wire Findings
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Author | : Melody MacDuffee |
Publisher | : Kalmbach Books |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2015-04-21 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1627001700 |
Wireworkers will create 23 truly one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces by learning to make decorative findings! Each component is made using nothing but wire and simple hand tools and wireworking skills. Beginners and intermediate jewelry makers alike can make these intricate, beautiful creations using looping, coiling, and intertwining techniques. These customized jewelry components – including strand separators, connectors, chandelier earring components, and more – are destined to become the focal points of the jewelry they adorn. Plus, wireworkers will learn to make a gorgeous jewelry project that uses each component.
Author | : Melody MacDuffee |
Publisher | : Kalmbach Books |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1627001719 |
Wireworkers will create 23 truly one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces by learning to make decorative findings! Each component is made using nothing but wire and simple hand tools and wireworking skills. Beginners and intermediate jewelry makers alike can make these intricate, beautiful creations using looping, coiling, and intertwining techniques. These customized jewelry components – including strand separators, connectors, chandelier earring components, and more – are destined to become the focal points of the jewelry they adorn. Plus, wireworkers will learn to make a gorgeous jewelry project that uses each component.
Author | : Denise Peck |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1620331527 |
Add personal style at minimal cost with custom-made findings! Why spend hundreds of dollars stocking up on expensive manufactured clasps, jump rings, ear wires, bails, and more when you can make exactly what you need for a fraction of the cost? Making custom findings enables jewelry makers to affordably create just the right component to complement their own jewelry designs. Handcrafted Wire Findings looks at your wire stash and focuses on how to create custom, professional-quality findings. With fundamental skills for beginners that progress to more sophisticated designs, this book covers techniques such as basic wirework, texturizing, silver fusing, adding patina, and traditional finishes. Included are over 30 projects for making custom wire findings, each accompanied by step-by-step photographs and directions to ensure success.
Author | : Melody MacDuffee |
Publisher | : Kalmbach Books |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2013-03-20 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1627000747 |
While the market has many books on solid, chunky wirework, there are few that teach lacy, intricate wirework done without soldering or casting. Melody’s work is airy and lacy, and while the techniques may be similar to traditional wirework, the results are unique. With step-by-step written directions, photos, and illustrations, this book presents more intermediate level techniques on how to make classic necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, pendants, pins, and hair jewelry.
Author | : Melody MacDuffee |
Publisher | : Lark Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Bead embroidery |
ISBN | : 1600590942 |
This book allows even beginning beaders to fashion the most delicate, twining floral and filigree effects with ease. The results are amazing and quickly achievable, especially with this stunningly photographed introduction to the craft. In addition to the thorough motif dictionary, which serves as a helpful reference to turn to again and again, it showcases more than 20 skill-building projects. These jewel-box treasures have a feminine and fashionable look, with their transparent beads and shimmering crystals. The jewelry in this designer collection is as lovely as any you'll see at a trendy boutique, but it's also a pleasure to craft.
Author | : Cindy Wimmer |
Publisher | : Interweave |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781596687073 |
Explore the most fundamental and versatile--yet overlooked--component of jewelry design--the wire link! Unlike many transient jewelry fads, it is one aspect of jewelry making that is consistent and relevant to nearly every style. Get all the details of essential tools and wire techniques, as well as a collection of 30 custom links and step-by-step illustrated instructions for creating them. Join a variety of contributors that have created 15 jewelry projects, each incorporating one or more of author Cindy Wimmer's links. You'll see how any single link holds limitless design and functional possibilities. In addition to creating different links, Cindy will show you how to create different effects with the same link design by using or combining different colored wire, changing wire gauge, or changing the size of the link itself.
Author | : Abby Hook |
Publisher | : GMC Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Jewelry making |
ISBN | : 9781861088420 |
This comprehensive guide to working with wire, focusing on the intricate and rewarding craft of wire weaving, will delight and inspire all levels of jewellery-maker. The 24 projects, ranging from elegant pendants to earrings, rings, brooches and bracelets, will appeal to a wide range of tastes and are grouped into beginner, intermediate and advanced sections so that confidence grows in the reader to feel able to move on a stage. Abby's experience running tutorials on this wonderful craft shines out in the clarity of the step by step instruction for each project and the invaluable tools and techniques section. To Abby, teaching is all about getting the detail right and taking out the guess work so the maker can concentrate on the end result of a beautiful piece of jewellery.
Author | : Denise Peck |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1620336979 |
Metalsmiths reveal new findings in jewelry trends! Following up their best-selling book Handcrafted Wire Findings, Denise Peck and Jane Dickerson give jewelers more techniques, more (and different) findings, and more inspiration. Handcrafted Metal Findings features 30 step-by-step tutorials for metal findings that require only basic jewelry-making skills. Working with precut metal blanks and thin-gauge sheet metal, Denise, Jane, and several contributing artists have created great-looking findingsâ€"head pins, bead caps, bails, charms, connectors, cones, and more--all without a lot of effort. All the metalwork can be done with basic tools--no saws, no flex shaft, no oxy/acetylene tanks. Metal pieces are hole-punched, dapped, hammered, textured with stamps and tools, colorized, oxidized, and patinated. Construction techniques include simple soldering with a micro torch and cold connections such as riveting. Finished gallery pieces that incorporate some of the findings provide additional inspiration in this inspiration- and information-packed book.
Author | : Gayle Bird |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1440241333 |
Twist, curl and wrap wire into one-of-a-kind jewelry! Follow along with author Gayle Bird as she teaches you everything you need to know to create her signature jewelry designs. First learn the basics of color and design, then move into essential wire tutorials. From there, you'll work your way through 20 step-by-step jewelry projects, including earrings, rings and necklaces. By the time you finish the book, you'll be ready to design your own statement jewelry, complete with swirling wire and dazzling gems. Features: • Tutorials on the essential wire techniques, including spirals, curls and more. • Chapter on design gives the foundation for creating unique pieces. • Step-by-step directions for 20 projects.
Author | : Denise Peck |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1620331934 |
Providing detailed descriptions on how to intricately craft stylish wire earrings, this beautifully illustrated guide offers simple yet elegant projects that are inexpensive and easily accomplished. Easy-to-follow instructions and comprehensive definitions guide the jewelry maker through the many elements of wire working, such as headpins, jump rings, hoops, loops, spirals, and ear wires, clearly highlighting the techniques and detailing the quality materials necessary to produce functional and innovative works of wearable art. With a diverse selection of 101 contemporary earring projects submitted from top designers, wire crafters of all skill levels will hone their talents while discovering new and inspirational ideas for producing unique and creative works in one of the fastest growing trends of modern jewelry art.