MAKING JEWELRY WITH A FRENCH KNITTER : THE EASY WAY TO MAKE BEAUTIFUL BEADED ACCESSORIES ( DESIGN ORIGINALS )

This new book offers an easy, fun way to learn to use the versatile French knitter. You'll develop advanced skills with this amazing tool as you combine beads with yarn, stretchy cord, monofilament or embroidery thread to create simple yet elegant jewelry and accessories.

Author - 

Carol C. Porter was born and raised in Washington State. She has taught quiltmaking since 1988 and currently teaches a variety of classes at quilt shops around the Pacific Northwest.

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1) Making Jewelry With a French Knitter - I must confess, I am totally intrigued by the Clover French Knitting Tool. As a child, I remember my sisters and I making long strings with yarn and a spool with nails. Not sure we ever did anything with them but we loved making those strings!

When I saw Carol Porter demonstrating the tool and saw what she had created, I was really impressed. Carol brings this knowledge and creativity to her booklet. Her designs are beautiful, with a thoughtful use of materials and great results. I found the instructions to be clear and easy to follow and appreciated the large number of photos used to illustrate the techniques. I would love to see more designs and what others are doing with this tool.

I think Making Jewelry With a French Knitter is a good value and the description clearly states what the book includes, I also think that many will want to see more!

By Judith McCabe on March 14, 2013

2) Make jewelry instantly ~ so easy and fun!! - I have had so much fun with the French Knitter and get compliments every time I wear a necklace made from yarns or ribbon both with beads added and without. Looks similar to Kumihimo but so much faster and easier. Great for all ages too!!

By marilyn peters on June 11, 2014

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Making Jewelry with a French Knitter: The Easy Way to Make Beautiful Beaded Accessories (Design Originals)

Making Jewelry With Beads And Silver Jewelry For Beginners : A Complete and Step by Step Guide: (Special 2 In 1 Exclusive Edition)

Wearing jewelry is essential to helping women developed their own style. For women wishing to create a look that's unique, the last thing they'll want to invest money in is mass produced pieces of jewelry. It's for this reason alone, learning the skills needed for making silver and beaded jewelry could prove extremely beneficial. When it comes to making such pieces you need to know where to purchase the right kinds of supplies. In this book, " Making Jewelry With Beads & Silver Jewelry For Beginners : A Complete Step by Step Guide (Special 2 In 1 Edition)" not only do we discuss what's needed to start your own silver & beaded jewelry making venture but also provide several projects you may want to try out. The actual process of turning a piece of silver into a piece of jewelry is not only very technical, but also allows your artistic side to flourish. Once you've finished making silver jewelry either for yourself or for someone else, it can prove extremely satisfying, especially as you watch the piece develop and grow. In addition, after finishing this book not only will you be able to create unique and stunning jewelry designs with beads for yourself but for others as well. Within this book are some techniques that'll only take a matter of minutes to master, whilst others may require you to spend a little more time practicing them to achieve the right kinds of results. From the outset, this book has been designed for those who have never created jewelry with beads and silver before. However by the end you'll be an expert in the tools of the trade, the supplies you need and some basic skills you can advance upon over time. For more tips and tricks, download " Making Jewelry With Beads & Silver Jewelry For Beginners : A Complete Step by Step Guide (Special 2 In 1 Edition)" now!

Author - 

Ever since she was a child Janet Evans had an appreciation for jewelry especially those that are hand crafted and not commercially manufactured. This led her to try to find out as much as she could about jewelry making until it got to a point where she made the decision to try her hand at it. After trying out one method she found that she was driven to do further research to perfect her craft. As this was a hobby for her the progress was slow but she did get through it all and found that by combining a number of techniques from different jewelry making guides, she was able to produce jewelry that she not only liked but could sell as well to make some extra cash. She also saw the need to put some sort of text together that would more advanced than a very basic outline of how to create jewelry but not as complex as the more advanced texts that can be found on the market today. Janet was interested in creating a text that would be easy to understand and also provide a bit more than just the mere basics. What she has presented is what she has tried herself.

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Wire Jewelry Masterclass: Wrapped, Coiled and Woven Pieces Using Fine Materials

Comprehensive and fabulous, Wire Jewelry Masterclass takes an in-depth look at an intricate and rewarding craft. The 24 projects, which range from simple Dragon's tear briolette earrings to a Poseidon-under-the-sea pendant, will delight and inspire jewelers of all levels and tastes. Divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced sections, this beautifully photographed step-by-step guide is the ticket to wire jewelry expertise! 

Abby Hook has been making jewelry since she was a child and has focused on wire techniques for the past 10 years. She currently teaches her skills and designs through online tutorials and is an approved teacher on www.jewelrylessons.com. She is also one of the judges for Jewelry Lessons' International competition. Abby contributed several articles in GMC Publication's respected Making Jewellery magazine.

1) Inspiration and techniques galore - This book is fabulous. The projects have great variety and really do help you improve your techniques from start to finish. Projects are properly classified by their skill level i.e. easy, intermediate and advanced, yet you'll find beautiful projects that anyone would enjoy making or wearing throughout. I also like that the pictures for every project show variations in how the project will look if you use a different wire color (copper vs. silver) or a different bead (faceted vs. round), or a different bead size, etc. I think that really helps you make a project using the supplies you might have on-hand instead of trying to exactly reproduce the author's project. I love that the author takes you through the instructions step by step but then helps you 'make it your own'. I consider myself an intermediate wire wrapper and I think there is plenty for me to learn and practice in this book. One last thing - there's a lot of variety in the projects. Earrings, necklaces, rings, pendants, clasps, chains - no matter what your interest, I think there will be something for you.

By L. Yang on April 26, 2012


2) Best Wire Work Book Available - This is EXACTLY what I was looking for in a wire work book! I wasn't able to preview the inside of the book, so I took a chance and luckily it paid off. I have many books on jewelry making and wire working. Most of the projects aren't ones I'm crazy about or they're too simple or too 'out there'. This book is perfect. Some of the techniques and projects are more basic, but the level of advancement goes up quite a bit and every one of the projects is beautiful and useful!!! This is the book to purchase if you'd like some nicely detailed, beautiful projects for wire working. It's worth more than the cover price, since you could easily spend this much or more just buying a couple on on-line tutorials. I would give this book 10 stars if I could! It's one of the best I've ever seen in the jewelry making category.

By J. Rainey on April 30, 2012

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Wire Jewelry Masterclass: Wrapped, Coiled and Woven Pieces Using Fine Materials

THE FAT BOOTY OF MADNESS : THE GOLDSMITHING CLASS AT MUNICH ART ACADEMY

The first complete survey of training in jewellery at Munich Art Academy from 1991 to the present, with over 1000 illustrations and biographies of all contributing students.

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The Fat Booty of Madness: The Goldsmithing Class at Munich Art Academy

RUSTIC WRAPPINGS : 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, sawdust, or potato chips, 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.

Kerry Bogert is a jewelry maker with a focus in glass and wire. She is the author of Totally Twisted (Interweave), voted The Best Beading Book in the About.com Reader's Choice Awards 2011. She has written articles for more than a dozen trade publications and contributed designs to five books, including Wire Style 1 and 2, Chain Style, 101 Wire Earrings (Interweave), and Creative Beading Vol.4. She lives in upstate New York.

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Rustic Wrappings: Exploring Patina in Wire, Metal, and Glass Jewelry

WOVEN WIRE JEWELRY (BEADWORK HOW - TO)

A new wire weaving technique that varies the number of wires and their thickness to create stunningly beautiful bracelets, necklaces, and pendants is introduced in this guide. Project instructions go well beyond simple line drawings to show the assembly process of each piece in a series of step-by-step photographs. The nine projects begin with an elegantly simple woven bracelet and move on to more dramatic projects that include a domed cuff bracelet with soldered bead ends, a free-form bracelet, a woven neck piece, and a pendant with a woven frame. Projects range in difficulty from easy to advanced, and many can be completed without soldering. The more experienced craftsperson will savor the way Precious Metal Clay adds striking embellishments to three of the projects.

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Woven Wire Jewelry (Beadwork How-To)

ENGRAVING ON PRECIOUS METALS

Engraving on Precious Metals is for professionals and others who wish to learn hand engraving as a hobby or trade, and reveals many previously undisclosed practices of the commercial engraver which help to make his skill quite astonishing. All aspects of the craft are covered exhaustively, including the relatively modern innovation of the high-class machine engraver. Illustrated throughout with over 250 drawings, the book gives practical hints for use in the workshop, while artistic matters are covered extensively in chapters on lettering design and layout, monograms, nameplates and ornamentation. A basic knowledge of ancillary crafts can be found in the sections on piercing, polishing, soldering and inlaying, and the use of unusual materials such as ivory, wood, or plastic is also discussed.

ABOUT AUTHOR -

A. Brittain was a director of an engraving business in London working for the top jewellers and responsible for some of the highest grade work turned out today. P. Morton also lived in London and was a specialist in lettering and its precise proportioning and layout. These two experts have endeavoured to cover the subject without leaving gaps and the result is a far more comprehensive book than anything done previously. It is a book for the beginner and expert, for professional and non-professional. More than that, it is a source of information that cannot be obtained elsewhere.

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Engraving on Precious Metals

SILVER SMITHING (JEWELRY CRAFTS)

The best book on the market that covers text on smithing including the general principles of metalwork, types and properties of metals, tools, and techniques. Numerous diagrams, photos and illustrations enhance this in-depth, how-to book on silversmithing.

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Silversmithing (Jewelry Crafts)

INDIAN JEWELRY MAKING

This is the one of the Best Jewelry making "Indian" Book where step by step detail illustrative instruction is given.

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Indian Jewelry Making

PRACTICAL JEWELRY RENDERING

This practical tool-in-a-book combines instruction on rendering techniques with unique guides that assist designers as they conceive jewelry and other works for the body. An envelop on the inside back cover contains a useful plastic template of circles, squares and other shapes as well as a ruler.

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Practical Jewelry Rendering

MAKING SILVER CHAINS : SIMPLE TECHNIQUES , BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS

Beginners can start with a simple trace design. Switch from round to square wire, adapt the chain to a pendant, or use small oval links for a sophisticated look. Transform trace chains into flat-lying curb chains by twisting each link. Or, try distinctively round loop-in-loop pieces. This range of chains really sparkles and shines. “Highly recommended.”—Library Journal.

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Making Silver Chains: Simple Techniques, Beautiful Designs

SIMPLE SOLDERING: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO JEWELRY MAKING

Publication Date: November 27, 2012

Metalworking is generally regarded as a skill that takes years of dedication, requires a large studio space, and costs a lot of money. Fortunately, Simple Soldering proves that does not need to be the case. This handy how-to guide is complete in its exploration of the craft of creating soldered metal jewelry, including tools, techniques, and 20 beautiful projects that beginners and enthusiasts can make at home.

Author and teacher Kate Richbourg demystifies basic soldering for any home crafter, showing how to create sophisticated, polished, and professional-looking jewelry pieces through simple soldering techniques. First, she instructs how to set up a jewelry workspace that fits the confines of your budget and living space. Detailed step-by-step instructions walk you through the basic tools and materials you need, plus how to use them. A sample chapter gives a host of introductory exercises that teach solid skills, allowing you to test these techniques on a small scale. Finally, you'll discover 20 finished projects that include earrings, pendants, rings, bracelets, and clasps that may also include bead or wire embellishment.

Kate also demonstrates how to combine and layer techniques to gorgeous effect. She also examines common mistakes, shows how to correct or adapt them, and gives advice on when it’s time to start over. Most of all, having taught thousands of classes on soldering, Kate has a "you can do it!" attitude that shines through to help even the most reluctant jewelry maker fire up the torch with ease.

Paired with an instructional DVD, Kate’s expert teaching skills will help projects come alive, right in your own studio.

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Simple Soldering: A Beginner's Guide to Jewelry Making