The Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewelry


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A professional jewelry designer and teacher offers design ideas, instruction on the use of jigs, mandrels, and spiral makers, repetitive patterns for jewelry chains and sets, step-by-step guidance for 11 projects, including earrings, bangles, bracelets, necklaces, and much more.




Jewelry Making & Beading For Dummies


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Features step-by-step projects and full-color examples Create unique jewelry to wear with everything from jeans to a ball gown! Want to make your own jewelry? This easy-to-follow guide gives you lots of hands-on instruction in making simple, fabulous jewelry and working with beads. From wire wrapping and knotting to weaving and polishing, you'll get all the skills you need to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, key chains, wine charms and items for the home. Discover how to * Create funky and elegant designs * Work with leather, silver, and stones * String, knot, and weave beads * Avoid common mistakes * Host a trendy jewelry party




The Complete Guide to Beading Techniques


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Beaded elegance at its best Beads can go everywhere, from intricate home decor accents to dazzling jewelry. Learn how to create unique, beaded works of art yourself in this complete guide of beading techniques. Even if you have never worked with beads before, you'll quickly learn how to bead like the pros. After introducing basic terms and tools, Jane Davis guides you through more than a dozen techniques, and you will complete samples to reinforce the skills learned. If you are an experienced beader, you will not be disappointed - advanced techniques and projects are included just for you. This complete guide of beading techniques includes: • Brick and ladder stitch • Loomwork • Peyote stitch • Crochet • Knitting • Tambourwork • Tatting • Wirework 30 beautiful step-by-step projects, such as: • Jewelry • Pinch purse • Table settings • Pincushion • Christmas ornaments • Business can holder • Lampshade • Boxes Perfect for beaders of all skill levels, The Complete Guide to Beading Techniques is fully illustrated with lavish photos of antique and contemporary beadwork.




Bead Embroidery Jewelry Projects


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Directions for making 30 projects with 16 variations, including totem necklaces.




The Beader's Guide to Jewelry Design


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Once beaders have mastered the basics, they're eager to take the next step: creating their own original pieces. This is their must-have resource for understanding the fundamental principles of visual design, from scale, proportion, and rhythm to texture, movement, drape, and color. Exercises, reader challenges, and lavish photos enhance understanding and design success.




Wire Jewelry Masterclass


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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.




The Book of Beads


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Includes how-to information.




Wire Wrapping Book for Beginners


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Have you been searching for that one book that would unlock all the mysteries relating to wire-wrapping? If so, then read on...




Complete Beading for Beginners


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Everybody's beading! It's easy, it's fun, it doesn't cost much, and in one evening you can make something gorgeous to wear or give, just by learning a few simple techniques. Complete Beading for Beginners shows you how to make your own pins, rings, necklaces, dream catchers, embroidered clothes - even your own beads. Just choose a project, check out the basic directions, and you're on your way. There are lots of diagrams to make it even easier, also trouble shooting guides, information on basic tools and materials, and inspirational tips to get you going on your own designs. There are chapters on Stringing, Earrings, Off-Loom Weaving, Loom Weaving, Beaded Rings, Barrettes, Brooches and Wall Hangings, Bead Embroidery, Making Your Own Beads, Planning and Design, Solutions to Common Beading Problems, Basic Knots, Tools & Materials. Beading is one of the world's oldest arts, and it's one of the newest. So go for it! All you need is this book, your imagination and a handful of beads.




Guide to Beading with a Loom


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Guide to Beading with a Loom is a comprehensive introduction to this popular beading technique. This book includes all the information needed for beginners including information about looms, supplies and techniques and is packed with photos and illustrations to provide maximum understanding. The twenty projects will build and advance your skills and knowledge. Plus there are numerous project variations to stimulate your own creativity. Advanced beaders familiar with loom beading will also find wonderful techniques and information on non-traditional techniques including many projects. This is a resource book every beader needs in their library.