Use to secure fiber paper on bracelet molds (as shown here) and to add embellishments to glass pieces. Safe to fire. 20 ga. 4 oz.

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Add Amazing Effects to All Your Fused Art. This kit is packaged with fun new ways to add accents or focal points to your designs. Mix and match effects or use them alone for a multitude of fantastic finishes. Shown below are a sampling of effects that can be achieved. Etched dichroic pendant by artist Karina Foster. Fused tile made with Glassline Paper. Set of 3 tiles made with Dicro Slide courtesy of GlassHopper Studios.

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A water-based adhesive used for enameling arts. Mix 50/50 with water for a spray adhesive. Use full strength for wet packing to hold enamels in place on curved pieces before firing or for adhering cloisonne wires.

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Nothing is more gratifying than receiving a compliment on a piece of handmade jewelry. However many regard making jewelry as being too difficult and tedious. Basic Jewelry Making Techniques shows how, after mastering only a few basic techniques, crafting even the most complicated jewelry pieces becomes an easy task. Readers will learn to use techniques such as soldering, texturing, and enameling on wood, acrylic, glass, precious stones, and more. Detailed instructions and illustrations accompany each project, and designs are flexible enough to be modified. Professional jeweler, Jinks McGrath explains how to optimize minimal workspace with suggestions for home workshop designs. She also reviews the necessary tools to begin and the larger equipment to buy as skills develop. Teaches how to optimize space for effective workshop design at home Includes instant reference tables for conversion formulas and melting point temperatures Features projects using silver, wood, acrylic, and more that utilize all modern jewelry-making techniques

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This clever and complete guide to beading will have you hunting for more unique materials, and freeing up more time to create beautiful jewelry. Inside this must-have beading resource you and 39;ll discover Wirework techniques such as bending, hammering, wrapping and coiling Instructions to make clasps, links, bails, drops and ear wires and step-by-step instructions and more than 250 illustrations and photos demonstrating projects for a variety of skill levels. Best of all, you and 39;ll create unique jewelry that and 39;s a conversation piece, as well as artwork.

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Susan Davis, owner of Grandmothers Buttons Collectibles, sells her work to more than 1,000 boutiques and museum stores across the country – including Lord and Taylor, Fred Segal, Nordstrom, and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In addition, her company has been featured in magazines such as Victoria, Family Circle, Southern Living, Country Home and Modern Bride. Now, this recognized expert shows crafters how to create wonderful vintage-style buttons, too, and turn them into attractive jewelry. The sophisticated and elegant projects are carved and stenciled, and made of such materials as metal, jet glass, pearl, bakelite, and celluloid…and every one is gorgeous. Davis presents them in historical order, and provides a little history and anecdotal description of each style. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

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This sensational design book showcases Americas most gorgeous and inventive art jewelry. For over a decade, the elite invitation-only American Jewelry Design Council (AJDC) has sponsored an annual project every member creates an original piece based on a given theme. With imagination and skill, jewelers have tackled such concepts as the Mona Lisa, Wheel, Key, Puzzle, Water, Flight, Peekaboo, Sphere, Pyramid, and Secret Treasure. Each of these topics now becomes a dramatically photographed chapter, complete with illuminating introductions by renowned jewelry writers Cindy Edelstein and Frank Stankus. In addition to background information on the AJDC, and the story of the annual design event, artists and 39; commentaries enhance specific images. A final members and 39; section includes a biography, headshot, and additional jewelry images for each talented individual.

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Creative Projects, Simple Techniques After exploring the exquisite ideas and 35 projects showcased in this one-of-a-kind jewelry collection, you and 39;ll never look at found items the same way again. There are countless suggestions for recycling everyday objects, from electrical wire to soda cans, and uncovering their vast potential for beauty. Begin by examining various metal types and forms, and the techniques for shaping and cold-connecting them. Select from a range of surface finishing treatments, and find out about special skills often used for working with stones, shells, plastic, wood, and bone. The wildly creative pieces include a driftwood brooch, a bracelet with wooden game pieces, and a pendant featuring old boat charts.

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Plaiting, Coiling, Knotting, Looping and Twining with Fiber and Metal Award-winning fiber artist Mary Hettmansperger reveals the secrets of using traditional basketry techniques to create 28 striking pieces of jewelry. It and 39;s a new and exciting approach that yields remarkable results--even for beginners. She covers four basic procedures--plaiting, knotting, looping, and twining--and incorporates materials such as copper, colorful wire, natural fibers, even bottle tops and bark. The array of projects includes soft-fiber necklaces as well as one made from looped linen over a forged silver mold small retro pins, bright and colorful in twined pattern shaped; and a variety of pieces made from wire twisted with beads. There and 39;s no other book like it, and it and 39;s sure to appeal to a diverse range of crafters.

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Creating with Vintage Beads, Buttons and Baubles Celebrated designer Kaari Meng—owner of the Hollywood-based store, French General—invites beaders along to learn all about her distinctive French flea market style. Mengs projects charm with their vintage flair and feminine beauty, yet all require very little experience to make. Follow Kaari as she digs through her vast personal archives of classic beads and creates unique pieces; along the way she teaches all the basic techniques, from simple wirework to bezel setting, and explains how to build a bead collection, develop a palette, and get exquisite results from easy-to-find reproduction beads. All the chapters are organized by places of inspiration throughout the French countryside, each with its own color scheme and special necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and hair ornaments to craft.

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