 The Art of Metal Clay: Techniques for Creating Jewelry and Decorative Objects (Paperback)by Sherri Haab
Price: £9.21
A comprehensive introduction to the medium designed specifically for crafters and jewellery makers, detailing the essentials of working, firing and finishing metal clay to create beautiful jewellery and decorative objects. Artist and instructor Sherri Haab demonstrates metal clay's remarkable versatility, showing how it can be textured, moulded, carved and sculpted to create gorgeous beads, bracelets, pendants, earrings, rings and other jewellery settings, and boxes and vessels. She also reveals how to combine metal clay with polymer clay, glass and epoxy resin to create unique mixed-media pieces. Developed in Japan in the early 1990s, metal clay represents a dramatic development in the handling of precious metals for jewellery making. 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 (0.999) metal.
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 Beautiful Hand-stitched Jewellery: 35 Unique Crocheted and Hand-stiched Projects Inspired by Tokyo Style (Paperback)by Emi Iwakiri
Price: £7.32
"Love to Make Jewellery" is packed with alluring and stylish ideas from Japanese textile artist, Emi Iwakiri, for making your own designer necklaces and chokers, bracelets and bangles, brooches and pins. Using traditional Japanese crochet techniques, these adorable designs use fabrics, ribbons, beads, bows and even the scraps in your sewing box. There are stunning ideas and designs here to suit every occasion, from a classic cream silk and pearl necklace - the perfect accessory to the little black dress - to a vintage-style floral belt made from old cashmere sweaters.Follow the step-by-step instructions to create the perfect finishing touch to a favourite outfit or charming gifts to give to friends. With designs tried and tested in Tokyo's fashionable Shibuya district, these unique pieces incorporating hand-stitched flowers, sparkling beads and embellished buttons are guaranteed to be a hit for any dedicated follower of fashion. Whether you want to create original jewellery for yourself or to give as presents to friends and family, you are sure to love Emi's stylish Japanese designs. And when you have mastered her simple basic techniques, you will be able to create your own bespoke pieces.
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 Silver Wire Jewelry: Projects to Coil, Braid and Knit (Lark Jewelry Book) (Hardcover)by Irene Petersen
Price: £5.95
With a coil, braid, and twist, plus other ingeniously easy techniques, these magnificent silver bracelets, necklaces, and earrings take lovely shape. Each of the 99 projects, illustrated with color photos and diagrams, shows exactly why wire jewelry has become today's hot craft.
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 The Complete Guide to Wire and Beaded Jewellery: Over 50 Beautiful Projects Using Wire and Beads (Paperback) by Linda Jones
Price: £9.22
This is the essential companion for any fan of stunning jewellery made from wire and beads. Celebrated jewellery designer and best-selling author Linda Jones presents a must-have collection of beautiful pieces in a variety of styles. Packed with designs for daytime, ethnic-inspired necklaces, fun projects for kids, pretty pieces for special occasions and items suitable for beginners, keen crafters will need never buy another jewellery book again.You will learn how to combine beads with simple and intricate chain designs, and how to create elegant finishing touches by bringing in tiny shells, leather and delicate ribbon. Why not try the stunning birthstone bracelet, or make impressive costume jewellery such as the spiral choker and the striking tiara for a bride? You don't need expensive tools, materials or know-how as the step-by-step instructions, techniques and tips will help you to create professional-looking pieces that you will be proud to wear yourself or give as a gift. And if you're already a jewellery aficionado, you'll find plenty of ideas and project variations to inspire you to create more designs of your own.
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 Magical Metal Clay Jewellery: Amazingly Simple No-Kiln Techniques for Making Beautiful Jewellery (Paperback)
by Sue Heaser
Price: £7.00
This book helps readers create beautiful and intricate pieces of pure silver jewellery quickly and easily with no silversmithing skills and very few tools and equipment using metal clay.Metal clay is an incredibly versatile material that can be moulded, folded, shaped, cut, woven, braided or carved to produce an endless array of forms and effects.Clear step-by-step photography demonstrates all the techniques you will need to set with stones, decorate with enamels, create textural effects using engraving and much, much more.With 20 gorgeous projects to create you'll soon be making you own fine pieces of jewellery.
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 Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners (Hardcover)
by Jinks McGrath
Price: £9.22
This is a complete course in designing and making jewellery. Carefully structured tutorials guide you through every stage of the process, revealing how to translate inspired ideas into workable, wearable designs, and you'll find professional advice on presenting and selling your work. Learn about tools, equipment and safe working practices; how to build an inspirations file; select suitable materials and transfer your designs; work with precious and semi-precious stones, metals, glass, plastic, resin and wood. Clear, step-by-step photographs demonstrate all the techniques you will need, at-a-glance panels explain the effect that different techniques have on a variety of metals, and practical exercises provide guidance in tricky skills - with ideas for trying these out on inexpensive substitutes before using your chosen materials.
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