Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 128 pages
- Published by: Lark Books; 1st Pbk. Ed edition August 28, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1579903886
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1579903886
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Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Description
“This inspiration-filled volume [has] instructions for more than seventy unique jewelry pieces from a diverse group of designers. Learn the tricks of using a jig, wire wrapping, twisting, coiling and hammering to create incredible effects. Combinewirework with gorgeous glass or semiprecious stone beads to create wonderful necklaces, chokers, bracelets, earrings, hair clips, pins and eyeglass chains.”—
Crafts Magazine.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Making Bead & Wire Jewelry: Simple Techniques, Stunning Designs (Hardcover)
Gorgeous projects, but as another reviewer noted, some of them are not long on detailed instructions. The instructions are there...but you sometimes need to fill in the gaps yourself, and there are few diagrams to follow. An intermediate wireworker will be able to get through these gaps with only minimal frustration, but a beginner will be stopped on some of them. However, I'd recommend this to anyone beyond the very beginning level, as a source of inspiration and ideas. You'll find techniques and designs in here unlike those in any other wirework book I have. A couple of additional notes: Don't start this book from the beginning if you are inexperienced, because unlike most instructional books, it doesn't take you from the simplest to the most complex projects. (The second project is difficult.) Look through the book and find a simple project to start with. And don't be discouraged if you don't have the specific brand of jig, "Wigjig", mentioned in some of the projects - the patterns can be made on any standard brand of adjustable jig, or you can make your own jig by driving small nails into a board in the pattern shown.
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