Responding to a new surge of interest in beads, this reissue edition with all new color plates examines the role of these intriguing objects in human affairs. The first chapter traces the travels of beads by mule-pack, caravan, and cargo. Egypt, India, and Mesopotamia were connected by trade routes along which beads were carried. Amber from the Baltic Sea abounded around the pre-Roman Mediterranean; gifts of beads were used by Columbus and Cortez to achieve their first footing on the American co...
Create your own fashion accessories and jewelry through 20 DIY macramé projects. Illustrated step-by-step directions for projects at three different skill levels will guide you through the making of your own unique scarves, handbags, belts, decorative embellishments, and jewelry, including bracelets and necklaces. Give your designs a unique, personal style by choosing from a wide variety of materials, including satin cotton, wool, rattan, and fancy yarns. Illustrated descriptions of the basic kn...
This book teaches how to use drawing as means of expressing a jeweler’s creative ideas. In jewelry, there are other ways of creating which do not stem directly from working in the studio. The most important of these is drawing, an extremely useful tool for jewelers due to its speed and adaptability. Mastering this tool can be a great resource that can help jewelers to progress easily and steadily with designing jewelry and presenting their ideas and projects. Drawing allows creative ideas to be...
This book provides insights into the innovative work of ther School of Product Design at the Dusseldorf University of Applied Arts under the direction of Elisabeth Holder and Herman Hermsen. This highlights many facets of jewellery and product design and the resulting tensions between art and design, ornament and commodity, unique specimen and serial production. The most recent creations by staff, students and graduates afford a comprehensive survey of the varied work inspired by this course. A...
On chokers, chains, ribbons, ropes, jazzing up a basket, adding texture everywhere: you can't have too many beads! The selection is ever-expanding, with beaded clothing, lampshades, belts, and pillows. And off-loom bead weaving is both simple and beautiful. A leader in the field shares her enthusiasm, going through the basics and on to more challenging projects. Decorate purchased beads to personalize them, if you'd like, and then weave a three-bead spiral bracelet, twisted ribbon Ndebele neckla...
Shapes that tease the eye, textures that tempt one to touch, vibrant colours from the entire spectrum: this beautiful, dynamic, and intricate jewellery often echoes traditional designs from Africa to the Americas. Give your creative vision a workout with these innovative techniques for needlewoven necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and more. Choose from a feast of styles - a Mandarin pouch, Peruvian-based Orejon Man necklace, Navajo spirit pattern, and other amazing original pieces.
In Make Your Own Great Earrings, you'll find 45 handsome projects to make (or to use as inspiration for your own original creations). You'll soon be creating earrings from silver wire, beads, polymer clay, paper, found objects, even fabric. Easy-to-follow instructions, full-color photographs, step-by-step illustrations, and helpful designer tips provide you with all you need to get started. The projects use easy-to-find tools and materials, too.
When Hesiod, the Greek poet of the eighth century B.C., recounted the history of the world as he understood it, he described the legendary first generation of mortal men, who lived in peace and ease, as the people of gold. Nearly three millennia later, we still refer to a particularly happy or prosperous era as a golden age. The reason Hesiod's metaphor translates so perfectly into our own idiom is that the mystique of gold, the quintessential precious metal, is truly universal. The very s...
Illustrated Ency. of Metal Lunch Boxes
by Allen Woodall and Sean Brickell
Discover Soutache, the art of creating modern and unique jewellery from looped braids. Donatella Ciotti shows you how to create stunning, expensive-looking costume jewellery, from earrings and bracelets to brooches for hats, with full-colour, detailed photography to guide you through each process. There is even a gallery of images at the end of the book to inspire you to create your own, bespoke soutache masterpieces. Learn about the history of jewellery crafting and the ever-growing trend for...
A how-to guide about making jewellery for beginners containing 17 new and original jewellery projects. Includes detailed instructions and helpful step-by-step photographs for each project. There is an informative and comprehensive basics section which has all necessary diagrams or photographs to make the Projects. Techniques and projects include: Bead Stringing - Beaded Necklace on Silk, Multi-strand Bracelet, Wire Wrapping - Simple earrings/ Chandelier earrings/ Stone Pendant, Pearl Knotting -...
Tassels are fashionable, fun and easy to make! The 20 projects in this book include a wonderful variety of tassels, made using a range of easy techniques and a few inexpensive materials. Carolyn Schulz has put her jewellery-making expertise to good use to create gorgeous bag charms, decorative key fobs and fashionable jewellery. There are folk-inspired tassels created using colourful threads and frayed fabric strips, leather tassels and small, simple tassels combined with beads and ribbon used...
Creative and Innovative Diamond Designs Vol. 1 (Knowledge in My Veins, #48)
by Gurmeet Singh Dang
This is a fascinating volume for jewellery collectors, Russian followers and anyone with an interest in one of the most legendary families in history. With never before seen photographic material sourced from European Royal Archives and the renowned Diamond Fund in Moscow. This book includes a chronological account of the Russian monarchy, and its slow evolution from an almost medieval taste to a sumptuous and westernised society.
Wire and bead jewellery is one of the hottest subjects in jewellery-making today. These 40 fun projects - rings, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and cuffs - will inspire wire workers, beaders, and all types of creative crafters. Written by Suzanne Tourtillott, author of the highly successful Contemporary Bead & Wire Jewelry, this stunning collection showcases contemporary and beautiful pieces in a wide range of styles. Readers will learn everything from assembling handmade links into chain, to w...
This is a gorgeous guide with detailed instructions to creating stunning wire jewellery. It explains all the basic techniques needed, from bending and wrapping to making simple spirals. Anyone will be able to craft the author's distinctive, stylish pieces. Boutiques, galleries and juried fairs everywhere exhibit Kathy Frey's distinctive wire jewellery, enhanced with stone, glass and pearl accents. Thanks to this gorgeous guide, with detailed instructions explaining all the basic techniques from...
In this illustrated collection of fashion illustrations of jewels, Vogue jewellery editor Carol Woolton draws out the essence of the jewellery designers' creative energy. Organized thematically around the topics of civilization, the natural world, art and architecture, culture and literature, raw materials and history, this book examines the relationship between drawing and jewellery design and features pages from the designers' sketchbooks, images from their mood boards, and photographs of thei...