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Discover the exciting design possibilities of fiber & wire Intermediate level micro-macrame jewelry projects that take you beyond the basics and show you ways to use simple wirework components to shape, support and enhance your designs. Clear and comprehensive step by step pictures and instructions introduce you to new techniques while exploring a new dimension of micro-macrame jewelry design.

Artist/Author Jim McIntosh's sequel to his first book "Wirewrapping: The Basics and Beyond." This NEW book adds 14 new wirewrap projects that are perfect for everyone from a novice crafter to a professional jewelry designer. There are over 450 pictures that illustrate each step of the jewelry making process.

Beautiful original jewelry pieces created by 12 very talented ladies.

This book is about how to turn your jewelry making skills into a full- or part time business. Here is everything you need to know to succeed with your handcrafted jewelry. It has 250 tips about how to find and get accepted into craft shows, survive them, and make a profit. You will learn how to take credit cards, be safe on the road, make your own display, anchor it, avoid theft, travel to shows by road or air, sell to anyone, make your own web site, and do your own photography for web images and show application slides. Includes complete addresses fo the best 900 craft fairs and art shows in the U. S. and addresses of 1,000 of the best craft galleries that are seeking contemorary jewelry to sell. There are instructions for 15 spreadsheet templates and forms that you can download and use with Excel and Word, including bookkeeping, pricing, inventory, mail list, business plan, invoice, show organizers, and legal agreements for consignment and sales reps. and more. There are even more tips for using zapplication, etsy, ebay, and wholesalecrafts.com

A. C. Hamlin's two classic books (collected together in one volume) on the famous tourmalines of Mount Mica, Maine, discuss the history and illustrate the beauty of these gemstones. A wonderful addition to any rockhound or mineral collector's bookshelf.

Sell Your Jewelry is a complete guide to starting a jewelry business. This book includes all you need to know to establish your company, build a customer base, and develop a profitable business selling your handmade jewelry. Written in plain English, the concepts are easy to understand and apply, regardless of your level of experience. In addition to the basics of running a business, this book teaches secret tips to ensure your success. For instance, did you know that jewelry business owners can buy supplies at wholesale prices and pay half of what everyone else pays? Do you know the four simple things you can do to increase the value of your jewelry and command higher prices? Did you know that defining your target customer is the most important step in marketing your jewelry? This book will teach you all of that and more.

Youll learn to:
Convert your craft into a company
Earn an income selling your jewelry
Develop a defined style and niche
Create products people will buy
Attract customers
Buy supplies at wholesale discounts
Increase your profits
Sell your jewelry in retail outlets
Sell at craft shows and street fairs
Sell at trunk shows and open houses
Make a living selling on Etsy

This 40 page compact pocket sized book introduces beaders to lampwork beads and how to work with them in their jewelry designs and crafts. This book shows the important differences of quality and craftsmanship between mass produced beads and handmade art glass beads. Learn how they are made, and what characteristics to look for in well made beads. The small size of this books makes it easy to carry along to bead shows and bead shops, or anytime the reader is shopping for beads. This is NOT a book on how to MAKE beads

The latest in Victoria Lansford's internationally acclaimed instructional series provides clear and concise instructions for eight fused chain patterns, with endless variations. With more than 150 full-color process photographs, the easy to follow instructions will have even the novice metalsmith weaving and creating ancient and modern design chains. Over 50 photographs of work incorporating all of the chains will further inspire you to advance your own creations. 4 Ancient Mediterranean chain patterns 1-Direction Single-Weave 1-Direction Double-Weave 2-Directional Double-Weave 3-Directional Single-Weave 4 Contemporary chain patters, created by Victoria Lansford Undulating Mesh Vertebrate Side Weave Mesh Crossed Link Victoria's instructional series Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters, including Russian Filigree (DVD, 2006) and Rings (DVD, 2008) has sold throughout the world. The series is part of her continuing commitment to make the techniques of ancient artists accessible to modern metalsmiths.

Wiresmithing offers jewelry artists a new way to make beautiful jewelry that has a modern contemporary look. As artists we're always looking for new and interesting ways to produce jewelry. We have an adventurous spirit that prompts us to take risks and test out new designs everyday. This book is dedicated to creating new designs by combining new wire wrap techniques with basic metalsmithing skills.

An in-depth study of the bead and how the native north and south Americans utilised beads for dress and ritual clothing from prehistoric to relatively modern times. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The German gem-engraver, medallist, and amateur scholar Lorenz Natter (1705-1763), was so impressed by the size and quality of the collections of ancient and later engraved gems which he found in Britain that he proposed the publication of an extraordinarily ambitious catalogue - Museum Britannicum - which would present engravings and descriptions of the most important pieces. He made considerable progress to this end, producing several hundred drawings, but in time he decided to abandon the near completed project in the light of the apparent lack of interest shown in Britain. Only one of the intended plates in its final form ever appeared, in a catalogue which he published separately for Lord Bessborough's collection. On Natter's death the single copy of his magnum opus vanished mysteriously, presumed lost forever. All hope of recovering Natter's unpublished papers seemed vain, and their very existence had come to be doubted. Yet they were to be found more than two hundred years after his death, in Spring 1975, when the classical scholar and renowned expert in gems, Oleg Neverov, chanced upon them at the bottom of a pile of papers in the archives of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Neverov and his colleague Julia Kagan carried out the initial research on the Hermitage manuscripts and produced the first published account of this archival treasure. The present volume builds upon their earlier work to produce the first comprehensive publication of Museum Britannicum, offering full discussion in English and presenting Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems that can be identified and located through fresh research. This book is the result of a ten-year collaboration between scholars on the Beazley Archive gems research programme at Oxford's Classical Art Research Centre and the State Hermitage Museum. It fulfills Natter's vision for the Museum Britannicum - albeit two and a half centuries late - to the benefit of art historians, cultural historians, curators, and gem-lovers of today.

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Complete unabridged reprint of the rare 1892 book. Chapters include ...(1) The Chemical and Physical Properties of Gold ...(2) The Precipitation of Gold in Waste Solution ...(3) The Different Colors of Gold ...(4) The Mixing and Melting of Gold ...(5) The Dry Coloring of Gold ...(6) The Wet Coloring of Gold ...(7) Melting and Casting of Gold ...(8) Electro-Gilding ...(9) Some Other Modes of Gilding ...(10) Practical Manipulations ...(11) Mixing Alloys of Gold ...(12) Useful Imitation Gold Alloys ...(13) Hints and Help ...(14) Collecting and Refining ...(15) Sundry Gold Alloys ...(16) Choice Recipes ...(17) Gold Values and Alloys ...(18) Index.

* Author's previous three beading titles have sold a total of 175,000 copies * Beading is as popular as ever, and Christmas is one of the key crafting occasionsWhether it's a tealight holder, a pom-pom light garland, a Christmas stocking, gift bags, or a Christmas jewelry set, readers will embrace the decorating and gift ideas found in Simply Sparking Christmas Beading. Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions cover a huge range of techniques, including bead loom weaving, bead stitches, bead embroidery, and wiring, for projects that truly shine. With a selection of last-minute variation projects ideal for when time is short, even the most harried Christmas shopper will find something to craft in this accessible and friendly guide.

The survey Guide to the Arts began in April 1988 as interviews with jewellers, fashion designers and furniture restorers, based at Old Loom House in Whitechapel, launching a quarterly review "Cv Journal of Art and Crafts". "Cv Journal" was published to 1992 and the collection of interviews, features and reviews provided the foundation of the Cv/Visual Arts Research archive and subsequent publications. "Cv/VAR" addresses the fields of academic research, galleries and museums worldwide, and a growing non-specialist readership. The programme is categorized as Interviews with the Artists; Curators and Collections; Crafts Directory; Small Histories; Guide to the Arts; Art, Criticism and Display and an open area for current developments. Titles are published in conventional book format and made in-house by digital process as print on demand, as well as CD-ROMs in Cv Publications' software catalogue. "Cv/VAR 65" features an interview with Dr Michael Ryan of the National Museum Dublin recorded at the opening of Work of Angels at the British Museum in 1989. Discusses pieces found at Derrynaflan dating from 8th century including an ecclesiastical paten, jewellery, accessories and domestic artefacts. It gives detailed examination of celtic craftsmanship and iconography represented in individual pieces.

J.D. Beazley's The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems (1920) was the first publication of engraved gems in what might be called the modern manner; indeed in many respects it remains a model few have even approached since and it is of an academic quality which is hard to match today. It is re-published here, with Beazley's descriptions and commentary, with updated references, and with enlarged photographs of impressions to demonstrate their quality. The two main categories of gems are (very broadly) cameos and intaglios of Greek, Cretan, Phoenician, Roman and Etruscan provenance. The additional material includes Mary B. Comstock's compilation of lists of additional references, and Cornelius C. Vermeule has added an appreciation of the collector.

The best on subject-discusses tools, materials, processes for creating lovely pendants, rings, pins, buckles, more. 164 illus.

Beads are an enduring artefact commonly found on excavated sites within many different cultures. This study focuses on beads from India, including amulets, pendants, eye-beads and etched beads. The examples cited cover the period from the Palaeolithic through to the medieval period, with discussion focusing on the different types and styles of beads as well as who produced them, the people who wore them and their function or meaning.

A specialised study, based on the author's thesis, of Bronze Age jewellery found in burial contexts on mainland Greece and Crete. Konstantinidi looks at the technology and craftmanship involved in the production of jewellery before presenting a typology and catalogue of examples: head, hair and neck ornaments; arm/hand ornaments. Evidence from wall paintings and the Linear B tablets are used as a point of comparison.

This study is concerned with the examination of Hellenistic finger-rings, defined as such by their pictorial engravings. The principal aim of this art-historical and historical study is to provide a chronological framework for the designs, made difficult by the fact that these desirable items are often held in private collections. Motifs include Greek gods and goddesses, Hellenistic-Egyptian symbols as well as family emblems. The pictorial representations are compared with general trends in Hellenistic art and the production of finger-rings is examined in relation to Hellenistic material culture in general. This rigorous and scientific examination, focusing on the late 4th to mid 2nd century BC, concludes with a catalogue of 174 motifs.

Since ancient times, fashion jewellery in Italy has been, and still is, an important component of clothing. The history of fashion cannot be written without mentioning its jewels. This book presents 200 Italian fashion jewels that, spanning from the era of La Dolce Vita to the Pret a Porter of the Eighties, from '90s Minimalism to the Neo Baroque of the new millennium, define the aesthetic mirror of society and show the transformation of styles and customs, ambitions and conquests of women, the evolution of shapes and innovations of materials and new technologies. DIVA! Italian Glamor in Fashion Jewellery tells about fashion jewellery in its creative intersections with Italian excellence: craftsmanship, design and fashion. It is a typically Italian story based on the ability to combine creativity, manufacturing and industry, art and technology, beauty and innovation. The masters of costume jewellery enter a dialogue with the great stylists and the talents of design, three heterogeneous visions with a single great protagonist: the Italian fashion jewel. Text in English and Italian.

From the simple shell beads worn by Palaeolithic hunters to the splendour of Renaissance gold work and the sumptuousness of Art Nouveau enamels, here is a fascinating and informative guide to the development of Western jewelry - concluding with the radical and experimental developments in the last three decades. Offering a concise survey of the entire field, this book analyses jewelry's changing fashions, explores its social context, and examines how it has been worn by both men and women. It shows how jewellers have responded to new sources of gems, whether emeralds from the New World or diamonds from South Africa, and to the discovery of metals such as platinum and aluminium. Masterworks by unknown craftsmen and pieces designed by individual artists as diverse as Holbein, Pugin and Calder are illustrated alongside the glittering products of the major jewelry houses.

This book presents a classification and catalogue of Roman brooches from sites on the Stanegate, housed in a number of locations in northern England including Newcastle, Corbridge, South Shields, and Vindolanda. The catalogue is preceded by a brief discussion of the origin and development of brooches, and a classification of types.

..". finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." American Ethnologist

"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " Choice

"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough... " African Arts

"McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published." Ethnoarts

..". penetrating... McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision." International Journal of African Historical Studies

..". a work in the best tradition of ethnographic research.... critical reappraisal, innovative inquiry, and fresh observation... make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies... " American Anthropologist

"McNaughton... provides an important interpretation of these artists' conceptual place as members of a complex culture." Religious Studies Review

Examining the artistic, technological, social, and spiritual dimensions of Mande blacksmiths, who are the sculptors of their society, McNaughton defines these artists conceptual place as extraordinary members of a complex culture."