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Get started beading: learn stringing in 7 easy steps

Patrick Ness

A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. How is that possible? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighbourhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust and completely abandoned. What's going on?

More Than This

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Eva M. Sherman

Beth L. Martin

Stunning Pieces Made with Sea Glass, Stones, and Crystals

Showcasing gemstones, crystals, sea glass, and pearls, Organic Wire and Metal Jewelry offers new ways to incorporate raw materials into beautiful jewelry pieces. Clear, step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs teach readers a variety of basic jewelry techniques and guide even beginner jewelry-makers through each project successfully. Crafters can use the suggested materials or choose to substitute stones or other beads as desired for an endless variety of elegant design possibilities. With a wide range of stylish and organic designs and a photo gallery for extra inspiration, Organic Wire and Metal Jewelry provides every wireworker and metalworker with the perfect project.

Organic Wire and Metal Jewelry

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LeRoy Goertz

Dozens of Great Tips and Hints

If you love to make jewelry and want a new technique, Coiled Wire is for you New and easy techniques for necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

Coiled Wire Beads and Jewelry

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Sarah Drew

25 DIY Low Cost (or No Cost) Jewelry Projects

This beautifully illustrated guide shows teens how to create eye-catching jewelry out of found or recycled objects—at very little cost. Some fun projects include making pendants out of pebbles; sewing a stylish cuff using scraps of fabric; and fashioning a funky charm bracelet out of extra screws, washers, and other toolbox trinkets. The easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions are suitable for both beginner- and intermediate-level crafsters. This book also provides bonus tips on the tools you need to get started, where to find materials, and how to make money from your jewelry.

Junk-Box Jewelry

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Kerry Bogert

Exploring Patina in Wire, Metal, and Glass Jewelry

Explore a rustic approach to making beautiful jewelry with exciting surface effects. Rustic Wrappings is packed with over 24 wire and art bead jewelry projects and reveals the surprisingly artistic effects of applying items such as salt, vinegar, bleach, sawdust, potato chips, or baking soda to your copper, silver, brass and steel wire projects--high-end effects with low-tech techniques. Achieving these innovative effects using household products will not only inspire jewelry makers but mixed-media artists as well. Advance your technique skills when you learn how to use patinas to add rustic, weathered effects, create unique and natural-looking color combinations, and use metal wire to embroider designs on metal jewelry pieces. Beginners will benefit from detailed technique instruction, while skilled designers will enjoy the introduction to more advanced techniques. With tons of information on customizing effects for unique metal finishes, Rustic Wrappings will teach you to re-imagine your wirework jewelry projects and create fresh designs that showcase your new skill sets.

Rustic Wrappings

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Karen Dougherty

20 Jewelry Designs with Cold Join Techniques

Discover the possibilities of cold joins! The hottest trend is cold. Cold-connection techniques are pushing the envelope of what is possible in metal without the use of a torch or kiln. All the necessary tools and materials--a common drill, hammer, sandpaper, wire, metal sheet--are all readily available and affordable for almost any budget. Learn how to use rivets, screws, and other materials to combine elements without having to deal with heat. Master jewelry designers Robert Dancik, Connie Fox, Susan Lenart Kazmer, Tracey Stanley, and others offer signature pieces, constructed using cold-joins. Accompanying each project are expert tips and tricks for additional ideas and customization. Metal Style is full of inspiration and techniques for jewelry makers looking to ignite a creative spark in their metal jewelry without lighting a flame.

Metal Style

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Nancy Lee

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A a Full-Color Guide to Creating Beautiful Metal Necklaces, Earrings, Bracelets

Learn to create your own gorgeous metal jewelry! Lee shows you exactly what you do, and gives you everything you need to know to create elegant and eye-catching one-of-a-kind pieces.--

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Metal Jewelry

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A. Potter

Around the World in 25 Designs!

Travel-loving jewelry designer Anne Potter takes you on a world tour of some of the most interesting and inspiring places in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Follow along with her as she explores the people, art, architecture, and culture of each region and the aspects that inspire her jewelry designs. Without ever leaving the comfort of your own home you can:

   * Craft a colorful tile bracelet that mimics the trencadís mosaics of Gaudì.
   * Hand dye beads to create a stunning neckpiece inspired by ancient Incan knotted quipus.
   * Weave simple yet striking beaded earrings inspired by the motifs of Persian kilim carpets.
   * Upcycle colorful tin to create a gorgeous necklace that calls to mind the work of Senegalese metal sculptors.
   * Join antique brass filigree pieces into a unique hand bracelet that evokes the patterns of traditional Indian henna tattoos.
Detailed instructions and step-by-step photos demonstrate a wide range of jewelry-making techniques, including stringing, beadweaving, wirework, macramé, metal stamping, and chain maille. Whether you're an armchair traveler or a dedicated globe trekker, Global Style Jewelry will be your trusty guide to many dynamic and diverse places and projects.

Global Style Jewelry

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Gayle Bird

Techniques for Designing with Wire, Beads and Gems

Twist, curl and wrap wire into one-of-a-kind jewelry! Follow along with author Gayle Bird as she teaches you everything you need to know to create her signature jewelry designs. First learn the basics of color and design, then move into essential wire tutorials. From there, you'll work your way through 20 step-by-step jewelry projects, including earrings, rings and necklaces. By the time you finish the book, you'll be ready to design your own statement jewelry, complete with swirling wire and dazzling gems. Features: • Tutorials on the essential wire techniques, including spirals, curls and more. • Chapter on design gives the foundation for creating unique pieces. • Step-by-step directions for 20 projects.

Freeform Wire Art Jewelry

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Sharilyn Miller

Step-by-Step Techniques and Projects

Copper jewelry offers jewelry makers an inexpensive yet stylish alternative to silver. The material is attractive, easy to work with, and very accessible. With Sharilyn Miller, the author of the best-selling Bead on a Wire, you can learn how to create beautifully designed and affordable pieces, from bracelets and necklaces to earrings and pins. Contemporary Copper Jewelry with DVD features an extensive technique section that includes distressing copper, simple metalwork, cold joins, and creating unique wire components. Then, it features twent-two projects in step-by-step photography from a collection of top jewelry artists, including Rachel Nelson-Smith, Dale "Cougar" Armstrong, Eugenia Chan, and Richard Salley. With this handy resource, you'll discover the exquisiteness of copper and how to create one-of-a-kind designs with this exciting material. An enclosed DVD with Sharilyn covers all the basic wireworking techniques to offer a solid foundation for creating the projects in Contemporary Copper Jewelry with DVD.

Contemporary Copper Jewelry

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Suzann Sladcik Wilson

A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating Your Own Custom Jewelry

Learning to make your own jewelry is easy with the step-by-step instructions in Simple Beginnings: Beading. Author Suzann Sladcik Wilson teaches you everything you need to know to bring out your inner jewelry designer. By learning about the different varieties of beads and becoming familiar with stringing materials, findings, and clasps, you'll soon discover there is no wrong way to design earrings, necklaces, and bracelets- only your way.

Simple Beginnings: Beading

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This is a signed copy! Excellent book for beginners. Has great reviews. Awesome condition.

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Earth & Elegance - A bohemians guide to creating artisan leather jewelry 

Denise Peck

It contains pictures, instructions and everything! In great condition.

50 Unique Jewelry Designs

Featuring original ideas from top jewelry designers, this collection covers a range of contemporary and stylish projects, such as bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and pendants. Beginning with a primer on basic tools and techniques and covering fundamental wire-working skills in detail, including wire-wrapping, weaving, coiling, chain-making, hammering, texturing, and oxidizing, this guide helps jewelry makers of all skills levels develop a range of talents. Each project includes a comprehensive materials list and step-by-step instructions that guide crafters through a variety of projects, including wrapping found objects with wire, making chain mail, creating spirals, straightening wire, making jump rings and ear wires, and creating clasps. Constructed with many different materials--from precious metals to plated and colored wire--these striking creations are a mix of funky and fabulous wire designs combined with stones, beads, and cords to create an interesting and eclectic jewelry collection.

Wire Style - 50 unique jewelry designs

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Debbie Kanan

Best-seller! Addresses the most common and popular questions of those who would like to begin designing and producing their own jewelry. Step-by-step lessons are given with wire techniques, how to use leather or satin cords and the different types of beads available.

The Basics of Bead Stringing

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Gabriella Rose

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