Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders

Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders
Author: Irina Miech
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2009
Genre: Beadwork
ISBN: 0871162644

"Twenty-one projects show you how to combine wireworking skills with beaded jewelry design. The unique range of projects use a wide variety of beads and cabochons, giving you plenty of opportunities to explore your creativity and expand your wireworking skills"--The publisher

Wire Jewelry: Beaded and Beautiful

Wire Jewelry: Beaded and Beautiful
Author: Irina Miech
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Co
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2017-05-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1627003924

Noted designer and author Irina Miech returns to her favorite medium with Wire Jewelry: Beaded and Beautiful, a collection of 24+ timeless wire jewelry projects beginners can create with a minimum investment in tools and materials. Using a clear, illustrative teaching style, Irina introduces standard wire techniques like wrapping loops, spirals, and zig-zags; hammering; creating simple clasps, and much more. Jewelry makers can apply their new skills to beautiful earrings, rings, pendants, bracelets, necklaces, and captured cabochons that have a timeless, classic look and feel. The focus is on materials and tools readily available at national retailers and independent bead shops alike: base metals, beads, semiprecious stones, and cabochons in various sizes and shapes. Even the findings — chain, clasps, and jump rings — are easy to find. With Wire Jewelry: Beaded and Beautiful, jewelry makers at every level will be able to create timeless jewelry pieces using standard techniques and materials.

Making Bead & Wire Jewelry

Making Bead & Wire Jewelry
Author: Dawn Cusick
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2002
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579903886

Explains the techniques involved in making bead and wire jewelry, discusses tools and materials, and features illustrated instructions for seventy-five projects, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pins.

Making Beautiful Bead & Wire Jewelry

Making Beautiful Bead & Wire Jewelry
Author: Linda Jones
Publisher: CICO Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781907030666

For her latest book, bestselling author Linda Jones has created 30 imaginative, contemporary-looking designs that are both quick and easy to make. Bead and wire jewelry is one of the fastest-growing crafts, with more and more people discovering the joys of making unique, hand-crafted pieces every year. In these recession-hit times, Linda Jones demonstrates how almost anything—from old buttons and broken necklaces, to pebbles picked up on a stroll along the beach, and even household staples such as washers, bolts, and plumbing chain—can be transformed into graphic, stylish pieces of jewelry that won’t break the bank. Eye-catching and fashionable, with something to suit all ages and tastes: this is bling on a budget!

Making Colorful Wire & Beaded Jewelry

Making Colorful Wire & Beaded Jewelry
Author: Linda Jones
Publisher: Interweave
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781596680142

Highlighting the flexibility and fun of working with wire, these original designs twist, spiral, and wrap their way through necklaces, bracelets, and rings. Using only a few simple tools, a spool of wire, and a sprinkling of beads, aspiring jewelry designers can create adornments from metallic or colored wire. Projects are easy to adapt to taste and level of expertise, and wire-working techniques build up from simple to stunning, inspiring beginners and old hands alike. There are smart and sophisticated gold and silver wire designs, such as the Waterfall Chain necklace, as well as more casual designs made with colored wire, funky beads, and tiny seashells, including the Belly Dancer Bracelet or Exotic Charm Necklace. With sections on styles and further variations, this is a guide for anyone who wants to add some shine to their repertoire.

Bead on a Wire

Bead on a Wire
Author: Sharilyn Miller
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-07-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781581806502

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Designing Bead and Wire Jewelry

Designing Bead and Wire Jewelry
Author: Renata Graham
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780312591373

Every beader knows the seductive pleasures of the bead shop. And once you've got your purchases home: what then? -How do you put it all together to create a beautiful piece? -What shapes fit?-Will crystal work well with wood?-Malachite with metallic? -Can you set luster against luster, or will luster against matte work better?-How many spacers between state beads?-Should your design be symmetrical?-And what about the rhythm of the piece?-Will it sit still or shift and sway?-Do you want glam or boho?-Drama or harmony?-Big clasp or small clasp? Designing Bead and Wire Jewelry answers all of these questions, and many others that bead jewelry designers are likely to encounter. It is the must-have guide to the key design principles for beautiful beaded jewelry. And what's more, the book lets you test all this out with 20 wonderful patterns and projects.

Easy & Elegant Beaded Copper Jewelry

Easy & Elegant Beaded Copper Jewelry
Author: Lora S. Irish
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781565235144

You can make affordable and stylish copper wire jewelry with a few simple tools, some wire and beads. Learn more than 300 different link styles and how to create your own with step-by-step instructions and outstanding instructional photos!

Weaving Freeform Wire Jewelry

Weaving Freeform Wire Jewelry
Author: Firor Kaska
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0871167034

Weaving Freeform Wire Jewelry is a guide to understanding and using wire weaves to create 20 beautiful freeform jewelry projects. With a tight focus on five wire weaves—over-under, over-over, coiling, looping, and circular weaving — the reader will learn by making rings, pins, earrings, pendants, clasps, and bracelets. Author Kaska Firor offers a wonderful variety of symmetrical and asymmetrical designs to inspire the budding wireworker, in addition to showing the evolution of wirework design from simple to complex for more advanced jewelry-makers.

Making Wire & Bead Jewelry

Making Wire & Bead Jewelry
Author: Janice Berkebile
Publisher: Union Square & Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781454702870

Includes beautiful designs, more than 500 how-to photographs that teach you visually, and accessible and accurate instructions. This is jewelry with texture and impressive wirework. This book of artful wirework instruction and 24 great projects will become the cornerstone of your jewelry-making library.