More Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making: Techniques to Take Your Projects to the Next Level (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer) - Softcover

Franchetti Michaels, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118083342 ISBN 13: 9781118083345

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Synopsis

The visual way to advance your jewelry making

Unlike other crafts that focus on a fairly narrow range of techniques and materials, jewelry making is very broad; the techniques encompass everything from bead stringing to metal stamping to working with different types of clay. More Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making picks up where Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading leaves off and gives you even more techniques to create new types of jewelry.

Beginning with a concise overview of jewelry making tools and essential techniques, the book gives you technique–specific chapters covering: designing with chain, basic metal work, metal cold connections, sculpting with metal clay, embellishing metal, using adhesives, and working with resin, glaze, and leather. Plus, a chapter of example projects gives you instruction for making 11 unique pieces to add to your jewelry collection.

• Step–by–step instructions are accompanied by clear, detailed photos
• Features a collection of appealing patterns using the techniques described
• Other titles by Chris Franchetti Michaels: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Beadwork, Beading VISUAL Quick Tips, and Wire Jewelry VISUAL Quick Tips

If you′re a beginning to intermediate jewelry maker looking to add up–to–the–minute techniques to your repertoire, More Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making has you covered.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Want to learn more techniques to create new types of jewelry? This book′s step–by–step instructions and clear, detailed photos show you how to design with chain, do basic metalwork, make metal cold connections, sculpt with metal clay, embellish metal, use adhesives, and work with resin, glaze, and leather. Plus, a chapter of projects gives you instructions for making unique new pieces to add to your jewelry collection.

Concise two–page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review

• Each skill or technique is defined and described

• Detailed color photos demonstrate each step

• Step–by–step instructions accompany each photo

• Helpful tips provide additional guidance

• Inspiring projects

• Step–by–step instructions

• Hundreds of color photos

About the Author:

Chris Franchetti Michaels is a writer and jewelry artisan specializing in beaded designs, wirework, and metal fabrication. She is the author of Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Beadwork, Beading VISUAL Quick Tips, and Wire Jewelry VISUAL Quick Tips. Chris is also the Guide to Beadwork on About.com, and she blogs about jewelry making at www.beadjewelry.net.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118083342
• ISBN 13: 9781118083345
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320