Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced stringer, you will be inspired by these wearable and fashionable projects by top designers. Hundreds of helpful tips and dozens of design options give every beader the opportunity to find something to love! Perfect guide for beginners with contemporary collection shows just how easy it is to make stunning jewelry with readily available tools and materials!
Wire wrapping is a renowned jewelry-making technique that paves the way for a whole lot of pretty jewelry designs that require little tools.
These techniques cover anything from gemstones cabochons, charms, to pure wirework and gemstone beads. Step-by-step jewelry projects for bracelets, earrings, and rings. Easy, beginner-friendly designs can each be created in a matter of hours Step-by-step photographs show you exactly what to do in easy-to-follow detail Stunning designs with individual day and evening pieces that will brighten up any outfit The contemporary collection of Beautiful Jewelry for Beginners shows how to make stunning beaded jewelry with readily available beads and stones.
While the core area of this book is the techniques section at the start of the book works through all the basic methods you need to learn before embarking on projects.
Perfect for beginners, each project is shown in full step-by-step detail with some standalone projects ideas you can try on your own. Kindly get your copy to begin your jewelry adventure as a beginner and creating beautifully model inspiration for individual treasures or sales.
It is really simple when you know how. I used 1 mm wire for the frames and 0. My tips:. Use appropriate wire thickness. I make jewelry of wire 1 mm 18 ga wire for the frames and 0. You can use wire with a thickness of 0. Tension is important when weaving. Too tight and you will pull your frame wires out of shape, but too loose and your weaving will be uneven.
When you have finished weaving, trim the weaving wire at the back of the piece, and secure by pressing firmly against a frame wire with flat nose pliers. Avoid kinks in your weaving wire by catching them before they form. Gently untwist the wire before it is pulled tight. Watch few Wire wrap tutorials:. Patination blackening , polishing of natural copper wire. All the jewelry I tell you about in this book is patinated and polished.
For patination ink of natural copper use special solutions, which can be purchased in specialized online stores. Try the solution beforehand so as not to spoil the stone. After patination of copper it should be polished. Use special nozzles and polishing pastes to polish it. Over time, the copper will get darker.
To avoid this, the product can be coated with a special lacquer for metal. I do this quite often. Copper does not get darker or dirty after varnish coating. Readers will enjoy 10 projects that combine crystals and wire, as well as a number of projects from top wire and chain maille artists.
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