Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewelry

This collection of projects from Art Jewelry magazine introduces readers to basic wireworking tools and techniques. Readers will learn to make wire jewelry using a variety of methods, including coiling, wire weaving, chain mail, wrapping, and shaping. More than 20 projects - necklaces, rings, bracelets, and more - demonstrate the different styples and effects that can be achieved with wire.

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Author: From Art Jewelry magazine
Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 119 pages; 350 color photos; ISBN: 9780871162540

From the editors of Art Jewelry magazine.

Introduction 4
Basics 5

COILS AND SHAPES 14
Wrapped in gold 16
Flowing ringlets 18
Turning a new leaf 21
Fleur-de-link 26
Wire illusions 30

WIRE WEAVING 34
Ring of wire 36
Caged-bead pendant 38
Woven wire & stone 40
Viking splendor 44

BEZELS AND FRAMES 48
Captured coin 50
Simple elegance 52
Bound beauty 55
Silver stream 58
Amplified brilliance 62

CHAIN MAIL 66
Chain concoction 68
Silken silver set 72

COLD CONNECTIONS 78
Strike it rich 80
Geometry lesson 84
Santa Fe dreaming 89

SOLDERED CONNECTIONS94
Link to the past 96
Put a little spring in your links 99
Cascading carnelian 102

Contributors 108
Resources 109
Glossary 109
Index 110