Author : Melody MacDuffee
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : 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 : Firor Kaska
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : 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.
Author : Melody MacDuffee
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : 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 : Irina Miech
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0871164183
This book is an excellent follow-up book to Irina Miech’s first very successful book, Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders. Following a similar layout and organization as her first book, this book presents 22 new projects including necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, brooches, and pendants. Irina keeps the projects fashionable and fresh by including a mix of metals such as copper, bronze, and silver, introducing exciting new elements including rivets, metal blanks, sea glass, and wires, and using new tools including hole-punching pliers and letter stamps. All of these additions inspire new colors and depth in the wire projects she presents.
Author : Giovanna Imperia
Publisher : Potter Craft
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0823027171
In ancient Japan, beautiful yet functional cords made with the traditional braiding art of kumihimo adorned everything from kimonos to samurai armor to prayer scrolls. In Kumihimo Wire Jewelry, innovative jewelry artist Giovanna Imperia offers a fresh twist on this time-honored technique, adapting it to create stunning wire jewelry. In addition to a concise history of kumihimo and an overview of its essential materials, tools, and techniques, readers will learn the basics of this braiding method, plus how to create 20 striking projects--stylish bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces--all supported with detailed, step-by-step instructions and illustrations. This comprehensive book, which also includes pieces by prominent kumihimo jewelry artists from around the world, will inspire jewelry makers, beaders, and wireworkers at all skill levels to take their craft in a vibrant new direction.
Author : Melody MacDuffee
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : 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 : Nealay Patel
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1627000178
Author Nealay Patel’s distinct sense of style and color appeals to crystal lovers looking for inspiration and new design ideas. Readers learn to use weaving, wire-working, and other creative techniques, like stitching with crystals and beading wire, to create ten truly unique jewelry sets. Beading wire is easy to find and use with little investment; it is also very forgiving and can be reshaped as many times as necessary. Clear step-by-step instructions and thorough, easy-to-follow photos and illustrations are included for each piece. Other chapters cover specific techniques such as crimping, creating a simple loop, working with thread, and opening and closing jump rings. These projects present a modern, Victorian-style look with a new twist.
Author : Arline Fisch
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781600594816
Over the past ten years, crochet has developed in an exciting new direction, as many artists have begun using wire to create unique jewelry. Arline Fisch, an internationally acclaimed jeweler and one of the foremost experts in adapting textile techniques for metal, introduces this new form of needlework and provides a wide range of exceptional projects from 16 international designers.
Author : Erica Swanson
Publisher : Kalmbach Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1627001891
Projects in Wonderful Wire Jewelry include techniques such as turning loops, coiling, wrapping, weaving, and linking. With a wide range of techniques and styles, readers are sure to find plenty to inspire them. In addition to 30+ jewelry projects, this book will include a detailed Basics section with sidebars on wire working tools and metal options. Project range from beginner to intermediate levels.
Author : Jodi Bombardier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1596686359
Enjoy a collection of 20+ beautiful wire projects! Inspired by the ironwork so prevalent in her native Tucson, Jodi Bombardier fashions her signature heavygauge wire frames into sinuous shapes, cold-joining them with fine wire to form open, lacy filigree patterns. • Learn Jodi's techniques, including the correct ways to use tools, hold wire, and create shaped wire frames consistently and precisely. • Create airy pieces that are still strong and stable enough to withstand daily wear. • Build confidence in your wirework skills as projects increase in complexity. In addition to providing project instructions, Jodi demonstrates how her scrolled designs can be manipulated, joined, or rearranged to create endless variations limited only by the imagination.
