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This practical jewellery handbook looks at the history and significance of rings and then guides the reader through a series of step-by-step projects. Featuring a brand new gallery at the back of the book, newly designed insides and a stunning new cover.
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.
A complete guide to the tools, materials and techniques for creating decorative finishes for jewellery. It outlines all the materials and equipment needed to carry out different techniques, together with detailed demonstrations and sample swatches. It is richly illustrated with work by professional jewellers, explaining how they have used different applications in their work.
A guide to making jewelry at home, including orientation to tools, materials and techniques.
A guide to designing and making jewelry that provides step-by-step tutorials for turning creative designs into beautiful, wearable necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and other pieces of jewelry.
This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference book for jewelers brings together a vast range of skills, techniques and technical data in one volume, providing an essential one-stop look-it-up resource for both students and professionals. The focus is on detailed explanation with clear step-bystep photography used extensively which means that while this book contains the expert techniques aimed squarely at professional jewelers, it is also accessible to students of any level seeking an authoritative and comprehensive bible of their craft.
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.
Features traditional techniques alongside modern innovations and ready-made settings.
Written by a leading authority on the subject of patination, this book is neatly organized by metal for ease of access and then arranged by colour and other variables such as application method. All recipes are illustrated, so you can clearly see the effect youre going to get, and step-by-step sequences walk the beginner through the processes.
Projects: Blue star pendant, earrings on copper, earrings with painted decoration, pendant with copper wire decoration, nut dish, coasters, house number tile, copper foil earrings, silver necklace, champleve pendant, basse-taille pendant, enameled rings, box lid, gold foil box lid.