Synopses & Reviews
Any craft as gorgeous as jewelry deserves a how-to manual that's just as handsome, and here it is--big, beautiful, filled with hundreds of color photos and a mine of information. After a brief discussion of basic metallurgy--alloying, smelting, annealing, and pickling--the book moves to essential jewelry-making techniques: cutting and piercing, soldering and other joinings, making closures and rings. Next comes a good long look at enhancing the surface: etching with acid, combining different metals, creating textures, and adding color. For the creative reader, there's information about related jewelry techniques: engraving, Japanese lacquering, enameling, gem setting, and modeling. Finally, there are seven complete projects with step-by-step instructions, including an engraved pendant, a very contemporary brooch, a gloriously textured gold bracelet, and a huge square ring to die for.The lines are clean and the look is contemporary. Beginners will study it, seasoned jewelry makers will savor it, and jewelry lovers will browse through it for hours.
Synopsis
“Most of the examples are contemporary...and all blessed with great color photographs—as is the grand finale, the step-by-step how-tos of seven different pieces, detailed with words and in pictures...introduction for buyers as well as for budding artisans.”—
Booklist. “A beautifully illustrated guide to jewelry-making techniques...a very useful chapter on the properties of metals.”—
Library Journal.Synopsis
"Most of the examples are contemporary...and all blessed with great color photographs--as is the grand finale, the step-by-step how-tos of seven different pieces, detailed with words and in pictures."--"Booklist. "A beautifully illustrated guide to jewelry-making techniques...a very useful chapter on the properties of metals."--"Library Journal.
Synopsis
Most of the examples are contemporary...and all blessed with great color photographs" as is the grand finale, the step-by-step how-tos of seven different pieces, detailed with words and in pictures...introduction for buyers as well as for budding artisans." Booklist. A beautifully illustrated guide to jewelry-making techniques...a very useful chapter on the properties of metals." Library Journal.