Jewelry and Beading Designs For Dummies
Your visual guide to building up your beading techniques and creating stunning jewelry!Do you love jewelry and beading? Are you looking for some clever, creative projects to make chic jewelry and accessories? This easy-to-follow guide is packed with 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 to give as fantastic, fashionable gifts!The basics of jewelry making and beading — assemble your gear, work with pliers, and brush up on stringing, bead weaving, and wire wrappingStart with simple projects — use elastic cord, ribbon, leather, a wire jig, and more to make bracelets, bookmarks, pendants, and napkin ringsIncorporate multiple techniques and materials — take your skills to the next level with unconventional designsComplete more advanced projects — craft custom jewelry components, learn advanced bead weaving, and make jewelry with polymer clayCreate unique, one-of-a-kind accessories — see jewelry in a fresh way by utilizing nontraditional materialsAvoid common jewelry-making mistakes — discover how to read directions properly, buy the proper tools from the right places, remember findings, use the right tool for the job, and moreOpen the book and find:More than 300 pages of projects and an 8-page color sectionA picture of the finished piece at the beginning of each projectTechnique-based chapters — ramp up your skills in stringing, crimping, knotting, weaving, and wire wrappingClear illustrations of complicated steps so you don't get lost — see exactly what your piece should look like at key pointsCoordinating pieces grouped together to help you accessorize with style