Do you love jewelry and beading? Would you like to know how to make chic jewelry and accessories? Jewelry &amp; Beading Designs for Dummies is packed with patterns, step-by-step instructions, and inspiring color photos to get you stringing, knotting, and looping in no time. From earrings and necklaces to pins, purses, charms, and more, you’ll discover new techniques for making just the right pieces to suit you — or give as fantastic, fashionable gifts! 
This easy-to-follow visual guide speeds you right into the basics of jewelry making: assembling your gear; working with pliers; and fine-tuning your stringing, bead weaving, and wire wrapping skills. You’ll use elastic cord, ribbon, leather, a wire jig, and more to make bracelets, bookmarks, pendants, and napkin rings. Before you know it, you’ll take your skills to the next level and beyond, using multiple techniques and materials on thrilling and unconventional designs. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Make more than 75 fresh, fun, and practical projects</li> <li>Hone your basic jewelry making skills</li> <li>Work with silver, leather, glass beads, and crystals</li> <li>Create rings, bracelets, phone covers, wine charms, and more</li> <li>Use bead crimping, knotting, and weaving to make beautiful designs</li> <li>Make stunning earrings and necklaces using a wire jig</li> <li>Fabricate beads and wire components</li> <li>Find nontraditional materials such as hardware, beach glass, and more</li> </ul>
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Jewelry and Beading Designs For Dummies

Arts & Photography

Dismore, Heather

Powley, Tammy

Fashion

For Dummies

Get started making your own jewelry with this easy and fun guide, featuring techniques for beading, wirework, metalwork, enamel, and polymer clay.\nJewelry Making for Beginners covers it all through accessible step-by-step instruction, with each step illustrated and a complete list of tools and materials. Build your skills starting with the easiest projects and then you take it from there. The book includes basics for making necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, as well as making your own beads, simple seed beading, easy wirework, and much more.\nThis essential beginner’s guide includes: 
A list of tools you need to set up your jewelry-making table as well as ideas for adding your own personal flair to your designs Projects for bead making, bead stringing, closures and clasps, polymer clay shapes, dangles, chokers, strands, bangles, rings, earrings A list of dos and don’ts for avoiding costly mistakes, plus quick fixes Loads of inspiration to learn follow and learn from 
Make them for yourself, as a gift for a friend, or even to sell at your local craft fair or online. This book will launch your success as a jewelry maker, whether for profit or just for fun.

Jewelry Making for Beginners: Step-by-Step, Simple Instructions for Beautiful Results (New Shoe Press)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

New Shoe Press

Features step-by-step projects and full-color examples Create unique jewelry to wear with everything from jeans to a ball gown! Want to make your own jewelry? This easy-to-follow guide gives you lots of hands-on instruction in making simple, fabulous jewelry and working with beads. From wire wrapping and knotting to weaving and polishing, you'll get all the skills you need to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, key chains, wine charms and items for the home. Discover how to * Create funky and elegant designs * Work with leather, silver, and stones * String, knot, and weave beads * Avoid common mistakes * Host a trendy jewelry party

Jewelry Making and Beading Basics For Dummies

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Humor & Entertainment

Van Camp, April

Movies

McFarland

The hottest new look in fashion jewelry is all about gemstones and pearls. Now readers can create right at home their own unique versions of the stylish looks they see on models and in magazines. Using simple, accessible techniques and easily assembled supplies, Making Designer Gemstone and Pearl Jewelry shows how to make chokers, lariats, bracelets, earrings, and more in a variety of styles, from classic to modern to funky. Whether the desired look is simple and elegant or ornate and chunky, the creative process is easy and fun, and the results are spectacular. The book also offers information on the healing powers of gemstones turquoise for serenity and positive thinking, amber for romance and love to help readers imbue their designs with personal meaning. For anyone who loves jewelry, even if they’ve never strung a bead or twisted a wire, this unique guide will inspire readers to make beautiful, stylish accessories to keep or to give as gifts. 
Tammy Powley is a jeweler, teacher, and writer. She is the host and manager of About.com’s jewelry-making Web site, where she has regular columns. She is a frequent contributor to Jewelry Crafts magazine.

Making Designer Gemstone and Pearl Jewelry

Quarry Books

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of jewelry making. It serves as a reference and technique guide for .all the common methods and styles of jewelry: beaded jewelry, wire, crystals and gems, polymer clay, PMC. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Galleries of jewelry by a various artists offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

The Complete Photo Guide to Jewelry Making: More than 700 Large Format Color Photos

This is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of jewelry making. This book provides a reference for all methods, including bead stringing, wire work, metal fabrication, metal clay, polymer clay, fiber, and resin. Includes step-by-step instructions for all the basics.
Now with:
15 new projects
Expanded techniques
 All new gallery of jewelry by various designers

The Complete Photo Guide to Jewelry Making, 2nd Edition: 15 New Projects, New Gallery - More than 700 Large Color Photos

Colorful, textural, and loaded with style, handmade jewelry is exciting to make and even more fun to wear. Whether using beautiful stones such as turquoise, amethyst, and amber, or simple paper beads, woven paper, or paper decoupage, there are projects here to appeal to every taste and ability. Each design also includes variation suggestions and professional in-depth tips and information on techniques, tools, and supplies for the novice jewelry maker to ensure success. The Art of Jewelry Making offers hundreds of full-color photographs which highlight the rich luster of the projects and explore a wide range of styles that are timeless and elegant, sleek and modern, bold and ornate. Exciting profiles of 20 renowned jewelers and their most creative work are also featured.

The Art of Making Jewelry

Wrobel, Jessica

Krupenia, Deborah

Thunder Bay Press

Jewelry making is one of the most popular craft trends, and its audience continues to grow. Few jewelry books on the market emphasize the importance of the design relationship between beads, wire, and jewelry findingsùthe ônuts and boltsö of any piece. This book will show not only how to design and build your own spectacular jewelry out of beads and wire but how to design and create your own findings as well.
 Most jewelry making books are geared for the beginner and provide little information for intermediate to advanced jewelry makers. Making Designer Bead and Wire Jewelry contains illustrated how-to techniques, full-color project photos, project instructions, and numerous tips that enhance the styles and skills presented. Intermediate and advanced jewelry makers will learn new techniques for creating signature elements for their designs, while beginners will get a handle on honing their skills.

Making Designer Bead and Wire Jewelry: Techniques for Unique Designs and Handmade Findings

Weaving tiny glass seed beads into jewelry is an ancient form of jewelry making dating back to early Native Americans and prehistoric African tribes. Today, "seed beading," also known as "bead weaving" is extremely popular. By combining traditional seed bead techniques with a variety of other jewelry methods, jewelry makers can dramatically expand the type of seed bead jewelry they make. From learning established seed bead stitches to mastering a few simple wire and stringing steps, this book shows beginners through advanced bead weavers how to make seed bead jewelry with a designer flair. 
Beginners will find enough detailed instructions to help them get started with the craft while more advanced jewelry makers will find it helpful because it will provide new ideas for using stitches in different ways, allowing them to incorporate stone and crystal beads instead of using seed beads alone for their jewelry designs. 
The author takes the reader on a tour of bead weaving including providing information about the different kinds of seed beads including sizes and types, plus descriptions of the various supplies needed. She doesn't limit her discussion to only two types of stitches, but provides instructions for ten different stitches before delving into the how-to's for ten different breathtaking jewelry projects, including diamond coral and gaspeite earrings, a lacey emerald anklet, radiant zircon earrings, and much more.

Making Designer Seed Bead, Stone, and Crystal Jewelry

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