Teaches you how to create origami jewelry step by step.

A favorite book with crafters is now reissued with a fresh new layout! No soldering is required to make these metal necklaces, rings, bracelets, and earrings; they're cold-connected, using such easy-to-learn skills as piercing, sawing, riveting, and joining. So even beginning jewelers can get completely professional results. Work with a variety of metals in sheets, wires, and tubes. Create your own chains, ear wires, clasps, and other findings from...

"Start to finish, all the instructional details are included for every phase of wax casting and mold-making in this second edition of the classic text on jewelry making. Creating models directly in wax frees the artist and craftsman from traditionally cumbersome and restrictive methods, resulting in a faster, easier and more spontaneous approach. This fully illustrated book is for the jeweler, teacher, student, craftsman and sculptor. Drawing on over...

A nifty necklace created from a worn piece of beach glass? A bold brooch made out of a Chinese game piece? A pair of exquisite earrings from recycled insulin bottles? There is no question that even the mundane can be transformed to the magnificent through the creative insight of author Carole Rodgers. Whether it is something you found in the local hardware store or something you literally picked up on your last outdoor adventure, you can convert everyday...

An illustrated guide to making metal clay jewelry that covers techniques for forming hinges and beads, working with paper clay, adding gemstones, glass and ceramics, syringing, burnishing, texturing, using patinas, and more. Includes over five hundred photographs and images of finished projects.