Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections: New Techniques for Wire-Wrapping and Bead-Setting. This item is unavailable.Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections: New Techniques for Wire-Wrapping and Bead-Setting

In Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections, chain-mail expert Scott David Plumlee shows jewellery makers, beaders and crafters at all skill levels how to incorporate beads into a variety of chain-mail weaves to create show stopping pieces. First, Plumlee walks readers through basic skills and provides detailed information on traditional chain designs. He then presents more than 20 wire-wrapping and bead-setting techniques that incorporate beads seamlessly into a variety of designs. With step-by-step instructions for assembling age-old chain patterns - from simple to complex - and gorgeous designs that can be executed using only simple hand tools Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections is sure to inspire jewellery artisans at all levels to expand the creative possibilities of their work.

Scott David Plumlee has led more than 140 workshops on chain jewellery at crafts venues since 2001. His work has been featured in Bead&Button and Art Jewelry magazines. He is an authority on ancient chain designs, has created more than sixty unique chain designs based on mathematical formulas.