Metal Jewelry Workshop

Author: Helen I. Driggs
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607655497
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
This beginner’s guide shows how to create exciting wearable art using just 12 simple, inexpensive hand tools—no jewelry torch required! Learn the basics of materials and techniques with 8 practice exercises and 12 beautiful step-by-step projects.

Mixed Metal Jewelry Workshop

Author: Mary Hettmansperger
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781600595158
Category : Jewelry making
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Metal clay, one of the hottest trends in jewellery making, is combined with traditional metal forms to create fabulous jewellery. 20 fun projects, professional instruction and a gallery of inspirational jewellery shows jewellers and general crafters how to combine an easy-to-work material with sheet metal, wire and other materials.

Step-by-Step Jewelry Workshop

Author: Nicola Hurst
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781596680609
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Aimed at crafters who have never picked up a pair of pliers, this handbook covers all the basics needed to get started creating great jewelry, from setting up a workspace and transferring designs to honing basic filing, sawing, and soldering skills. Diagrams give clarity for tricky stages, providing examples of what can go wrong and detailing how to repair common problems. A comprehensive tools and materials section reveals how to choose metals and stones, select and store useful materials, and start a beginner's tool kit. With step-by-step photography of every technique--displaying how to plan, pierce, file, solder, pickle, and clean--this comprehensive resource makes creating jewelry accessible and affordable.

The Complete Photo Guide to Making Metal Jewelry

Author: John Sartin
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 1589237366
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
"Comprehensive reference for all techniques used for making gold, silver, bronze, and copper jewelry"-- Provided by publisher.

Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads

Author: Linda Kaye-Moses
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1616732903
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Precious metal clay (PMC) is an innovative material that combines the workability of clay with the beautiful finish and durability of precious metals. The material is easy to manipulate and shape by hand to make beads for bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry. This book contains fifteen projects for creating fine silver beads and a design gallery of 25 additional jewelry pieces. Intro chapters include information about tools and techniques. Projects are organized workshop-style, to build skills cumulatively.

Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop

Author: Karen Karon
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1596686456
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover the ultimate technique-based guide for one of the top trends in jewelry making--chain maille. In Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop, you'll find more than two dozen techniques for making today's most popular chain maille weaves--from simple chains to beaded wonders to intricate Dragonscale. Jewelry artist and author Karen Karon pairs in-depth, step-by-step instructions with color illustrations that show exactly where to place the next jump ring. You'll also get a thorough but flexible approach to techniques that prove weaving can be done in a multitude of ways and demonstrations on "speed weaving," which is ideal for large projects. Designs progressively increase in complexity, so every jewelry maker--beginner or pro--will find inspiration and projects that suite their skill level. What's more to love? Every chapter provides a unique jewelry project and a plethora of design advice, visual inspiration, shortcuts, tips, and tricks, as well as guidance for attaching clasps and findings. It's no wonder that Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop is the ideal resource for innovation and originality in chain maille jewelry making.

Jewelry Lab

Author: Melissa Manley
Publisher:
ISBN: 1592537227
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
DIVJewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used. It provides aspiring metalsmiths and jewelry makers a way to learn fundamental techniques that is quick and fun. In addition to the basic skills such as sawing, drilling, soldering, and finishing, the book covers texturing, etching, rolling, coloring, patinas, forming, connections, findings, solders, bezels, rivets, and other experimental techniques. This is not a project book; rather, it is an approachable, unintimidating workbook that breaks metals processes down into very specific experiments, such as texturing or plastic deformation of metal, with no goal in mind other than to experience how metal moves. Readers learn to understand more about metal, how to master it, and gain a deep, thoughtful underlying appreciation for process and method, becoming entranced with finely crafting objects with great care./div

Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet

Author: Mary Hettmansperger
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 1600591256
Category : Art metal-work
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Making gorgeous handcrafted jewelry can be an amazingly simple process that even beginners will quickly master--as long as they have this guide by their side. Written by an experienced artist and teacher, and generously illustrated with attractive how-to photos and drawings, it demonstrates a wealth of easy techniques in superb detail. Twenty dazzling projects--including a twisted wire choker, bangle bracelet, bead pod pin, and mixed metal earrings-- are created by wrapping, stitching, and folding metal, and by making cold connections with basic screws, bolts, pop rivets, eyelets, brads, and nails. Sophisticated photographs of each piece highlight its rich textures and visual complexity. Would-be jewelers will love this--and beaders, memory crafters, and anyone eager to explore metal jewelry will want it, too!

Metalsmithing for Jewelry Makers

Author: Jinks McGrath
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764165849
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Presents step-by-step instructions for creating a variety of metal jewelry items, with information on tools, metals and their uses, surface treatments, and specialist techniques.

Creative Metal Clay Jewelry

Author: CeCe Wire
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600591822
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Imagine a material that looks and feels like clay and yet, when fired, becomes pure, solid gold and silver! That’s metal clay, and here are the fabulous techniques and instructions, lavish photos and projects that will open up endless creative possibilities to every crafter. With this versatile product, metalwork becomes easier and faster, and it’s simple to create meaningful gifts or add techniques to the forms you’ve already mastered. Combine the clay with lampworked and fused dichroic glass, enamel, and beads. Make exquisite jewelry, sculpture, carvings, and more. Try a great new liquid gold for coating silver objects. Among the glittering, gorgeous projects: an African Mask Pin, Groovy Flower Earrings and Ring, Puzzle Piece Bracelet, and a Twig and Leaf Condiment Spoon.