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Enamels Enameling Enamelists
by Glenice Lesley Matthews Enamels Enameling Enamelists is a studio and classroom guide to the materials and process of enameling. Twenty-six techniques from basse-taille to underglazing are described and accompanied by excellent examples. Six step-by-step projects are provided to help the novice master a variety of basic enameling skills. Hard cover, 7.5" x 9.5", 177 pages.

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The Encyclopedia of Jewelry Making Techniques
by Jinks McGrath From simple techniques for bending or knitting wire to elaborate creations of gold and diamonds, The Encyclopedia of Jewelry Making Techniques describes all the essential techniques to create your own handmade jewelry. This authoritative book provides an overview of the basic equipment and techniques needed to work with traditional materials including gold, copper and silver as well as plastic and acrylic. An A-Z visual directory details more than 40 crafting techniques, from annealing and bending to ring-making and wire drawing. Each method is explained and illustrated through step-by-step text and photographs, and highlights the equipment and materials needed, placement and design ideas, and choices of finishing. Hard cover, 9" x 9", 176 pages.

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Fabulous Woven Jewelry
Plaiting, Coiling, Knotting, Looping & Twining with Fiber & Metal
by Mary Hettmansperger
Soft cover, 10" x 8.5", 160 pages, copyright 2005
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Sample Page The 24 impressive-looking woven projects presented in Fabulous Woven Jewelry expand the creative boundaries of jewelry making. Basketry and beading techniques produce invitingly tactile patterns and visually striking effects, many that can't be achieved through traditional metalwork. These techniques show off the varied materials, from copper and silver to reed and ash to waxed linen and embroidery thread, that are an integral part of the jewelry.
Chapters include: 1 Materials and Supplies, 2 Tools and Equipment, 3 Plaiting, 4 Twining, 5 Looping, 6 Knotting, 7 Coiling, and 8 Gallery. The step-by-step illustrated projects include: Woven Copper Necklace, Quiver Shaped Necklace, Copper Book Necklace, Lidded Basket Necklace, Multicolored Pouch, Twined Pouch with Beaded Fringe, Tapered Pouch Stickpin, Twined Silver Pin with Beads, Twined Copper Bag Necklace, Figurative Pin, Twined Spokes Bracelet, Looped Pouch Necklace, Wild Cherry Necklace, Looped Wire Necklace, Looped Linen Necklace, Silver Fishbone Necklace, Driftwood Necklace, Vessel-Shaped Knotted Pin, Cone_Shaped Pouch Pin, Sundial Pin, Free-form Copper Necklace, Coiled Linen Earrings, Free-form Coiled Necklace, and Pine Needle Brooch.

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Flameworking
Creating Glass Beads, Sculptures and Functional Objects
by Elizabeth Ryland Mears
Soft cover, 10" x 8", 175 pages, copyright 2003
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Sample Gallery Page Flameworking will show you how to manipulate hot glass to make beautiful flameworked shapes and objects that you'll assemble into larger sculptural and functional pieces. These techniques are the most accessible way to begin working with hot glass and are fully explained in this groundbreaking book. If you already have some experience, you'll find many new flameworking techniques with which to express your artistic vision. The detailed and easy to follow exercises, brought to life by sophisticated projects, will enable you to build a series of skills with each one you complete.
The Introduction present Glass Basics; Setting Up Your Studio; Healing "Devit," Creases, and Cracks; Color, Glorious Color!; and Glass Rods and Tubing.
The Exercises cover: 1 Making Gathers, Experimenting with Gravity, and Fusing Rods; 2 Making a Leaf and Variations; 3 Embellishing Leaves; 4 Making Marias and Transitional Shapes; 5 Casing a Clear Rod with Color; 6 Making a Heart Shape; 7 Making a Fish Shape with Frit Color; 8 Making a Flower; 9 Making Icicles with Stripes; 10 Working with Tubing; and 11 Making a Candleholder.
The Projects include: 1 Versatile Plant Stakes; 2 Flowers with Leaves and Stems; 3 Colorful Suncatcher; 4 Kinetic Leaf Mobile; 5 Candlestick with Transitional Shapes; 6 Decorative Glass Candies; 7 Beads as Glass Sculpture; 8 Tall Candlestick with Fish Motif; 9 Heart Wall Sculpture; 10 Flower Candleholder; and 11 Fish Sculpture.
An 18-page gallery of flameworked glass pieces by contemporary artists provides inspiration and an appreciation for the versatility of glass as an artistic medium. If you want to learn to flamework glass or are interested in the tools and techniques involved in flameworking, you will appreciate this book.

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The Flexible Shaft Machine
Jewelry Techniques
by Harold O'Connor The flexshaft tool is probably used more often than any other available to the practicing craftsman. This machine and its numerous burrs, saws and other accessories free the jewelry maker from often laborious tasks and gives him the chance to preform numerous operations. The Flexible Shaft Machine - Jewelry Techniques covers and presents information about Machines and Handpieces, Ring sizer and drill press, Wax turning lathe, Stone-cutting unit, Table saw, Burrs, Details of burr use, Finishing a cast ring, Sculpting a Ring with a cabochon, Creating a ring set with brilliants, Setting a brilliant stone in a bezel, Setting square stones, Constructing large prongs, Carving prongs, Prong sets and pearls, Stone ring with metal inlay, Cabochon-cutting, Metal inlay in carved stone, Plastics, Carving Wood, Turning tubes and wax on a lathe, Ivory-carving and inlaying, Chasing and engraving, Drilling, Riveting, Titanium, and Surface Textures. Included is list of suppliers and a gallery of flexible shaft machine work by contemporary artists. Soft cover, 11" x 8.5", 47 pages.

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Gem Cutters Handbook
Channel Jewelry - A New Approach
Gems and Minerals reprint
This reprint from Gems and Minerals magazine presents an illustrated, step-by-step tutorial on making channel inlay settings with silver. Channel work has is often thought to be quite tedious because of the large number of soldered joints required. This pamphlet details a technique for eliminating much of the tedium associated with prior methods of doing the fabrication for channel settings. Part 1 covers working the wire and Part 2 covers the final silverwork and stone cutting. If you've been wanting to try channel inlay but are without a clue as to how to go about fabricating channel settings, this pamphlet is for you. Soft cover, 5.5" x 8.5", 12 pages.

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Gold and Silver Surface Applications Under Enamels
by Charles Lewton-Brain Gold and Silver Surface Applications Under Enamels presents information on Fusion Bonding Using Temperature Differentials for Control, Fusion Overlay, Incised Fusion Overlay, Etched Relief, Keum-boo, Depletion Guilding, Gold Applications Tool and Equipment List, and a bibliography. Soft cover, 8.5" x 11", 19 pages.

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Goldsmithing and Silver Work
Jewelry, Vessels & Ornaments
by Carles Codina
Hard cover, 12" x 9", 160 pages, copyright 2003
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Goldsmithing and Silver Work takes your work and skills to the next level as you use time-honored techniques in new and exciting ways. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate both the methods you'll use and a rich variety of beautiful pieces created by talented artists. You will find new and creative possibilities as you go beyond the traditional boundaries of jewelry making. This authoritative resource will show you inventive, advanced techniques, as well as help you conceptualize and create different pieces including vessels and ornaments.
Learn the skills that are essential for the creative jeweler who strives to become more proficient in this beautiful, varied craft, from construction and soldering to casting and working with platinum. Here, you'll also become familiar with several techniques that deserve special attention, like Kum Boo, which uses both gold and silver.
Cast and stamp metals using new products and tools, or try your hand at some primitive techniques. Ashanti casting, for instance, is an ancient lost wax method from Ghana that's still used today. A fanciful brooch is provided as an example.
To identify stones professionally, precise instruments are required, but you'll find out how to recognize them on your own without any complicated tools. You'll learn that a glance in a simple 10x loupe can help you recognize the characteristics that are important in evaluating gems. What's more, you'll study the work of one of the most renowned gemcutters in the world, Bernd Munsteiner.
Take an inside look at the jewelry business from the viewpoint of four professionals with different objectives, but with a clear, creative focus in common. There's also some vital advice that's often neglected by many goldsmiths on creating an image and marketing your own work. Hone your skills on a collection of original, complex projects, from a sleek silver coffee service to lovely square rings, a stunning, traditional Berber bracelet, and a brooch with detailed, decorative design.

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Gold Surface Applications: A Technology Review
by Charles Lewton-Brain Gold Surface Applications: A Technology Review discusses fusion applications (gold "painting"), doublee, Keum-boo, depletion gilding, inlay and overlay procedures, and fire guilding. Soft cover, 8.5" x 11", 32 pages.

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Great Wire Jewelry
Projects and Techniques
by Irene From Peterson
Hard cover, 8.5" x 8.5", 60 pages, copyright 1998.
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Sample Technique Illustration Imagine creating beautiful jewelry using only wire, jump rings and a few basic tools. It's true! Both beginners and experienced jewelry makers will appreciate the ingenious yet simple techniques used to braid, twist and knit silver, copper and brass wire into stunning bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more. These techniques, first used by the Vikings, allow even novices to make great looking jewelry, without using solder or expensive equipment.
Great Wire Jewelry features more than 70 projects, each fully illustrated with color photographs and step-by-step diagrams. Each project is rated by difficulty; some of the designs are easy enough for children to do. In addition, once you have learned the basic techniques, you can start creating your own designs.
So get ready to be impressed by what you can make, whether you start with a knit ring with silver end beads... twisted earrings... a copper and silver braided bangle... or a brass double flower chain necklace. There are patterns and styles certain to appeal to everyone!
Great Wire Jewelry is organized into two major parts. The first part presents knitted, twisted, and braided wire jewelry. The second part presents jewelry made from jump rings. Sections include Materials, Oxidizing and Polishing; Viking Knitting; Getting Started with Viking Knit, Braids, Knit on 3 Nails; Crown Sinnet Braiding; Cross-Linked Chain; 3-in-3 Chain; Single Flower Chain; Double Flower Chain; Flat Chain Mail; Round Chain Mail; Open Round Chain Mail; Queen's Chain; Criss-Cross Chain; Rope Chain; Double Rope Chain; Cross Chain; Jens Pind's Linkage; Snake Chain; Foxtail; Byzantine Chain; Key to Inside Diameters and Tools; and Index of Techniques and Terms and A Note About Suppliers.

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Hinges and Hinge-Based Catches for Jewelers and Goldsmiths
by Charles Lewton-Brain Hinges and Hinge-Based Catches for Jewelers and Goldsmiths is a profusely illustrated text dealing with hinge making, its considerations and tricks. Hinges and hinge-based mechanisms are incredibly important mechanical devices that are vital to linkage systems, jewelry making and metalsmithing in general. This book discusses these mechanisms and offers a reference to those time when you need to deal with a hinge-related problem you have not had to deal with before, or when you need to review information before starting a project. Chapters include Principles of Soldering and Construction, Making Tubing, Hinge Considerations, Making a Basic Hinge, Basic Knuckle Options, Hinge Pins, Further Hinge Types, Hinge-Based Catch Systems, Making a Locking Rail Catch, Tension-Based Catches for Hinged Bracelets, Even More Hinge Types, and Alternative Hinges. Soft Cover, 8.5" x 11", 112 pages.

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How To Design Jewelry
by Richard D. Austin and Iva L. Geisinger
Soft cover, 8.5" x 11", 31 pages, Copyright 1987.
Sample Page Design is the element that adds something special to jewelry creation. Perhaps you have cut a beautiful gemstone and would like to set in a mounting this is more than the conventional bezel or prong setting. What can be done to give the mounting that special, individual look? How do you work a leaf or flower motif into the design? What about geometric patterns, attractive animal shapes, the modern massive look?
The answers to these questions, plus a lot more helpful information will be found in How To Design Jewelry. In addition to having had many articles published on jewelry making, the authors have taught the subject, with design being part of their courses. Now they have compiles these instructions, including projects that will show you how through doing. In addition, you'll find a wide variety of designs that may be used as it or modified to fashion jewelry with that professional, artistic appearance.
Contents include: Introduction, Bird Motifs, Design Ideas for Casting Models, Geometrics, Monograms, Floral Designs, Embellishment, Strings and Doodles, Movement, More about Movement, and Design and Repair. Illustrated with full color photo pages and black and white drawings.

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How To Make Wire Jewelry
Simple but Elegant
by Fern Jenkins and Viola Thrasher
Soft cover, 8.5" x 11", 31 pages, copyright 1979.
Sample Page Have you been wanting to get into the fascinating craft of jewelry making, but felt it was too complicated? Many craftsmen enjoy creating with metal sheet, wire and solder; or working with casting equipment. However there are those who would prefer a simpler approach requiring a minimum of equipment, tools, and supplies. If you are one of the latter, working with square, gold-filled wire may be the answer.
Many intricate designs are possible, but with How To Make Wire Jewelry the technique is easily learned. Better yet, only a small assortment of simple, inexpensive tools is required. You can actually do this work in the living room while watching television! Making jewelry with square wire is a relaxing, absorbing pastime that anyone can enjoy. Follow it as a hobby, make gifts or even go into a part-time business. You'll find that the possibilities are practically unlimited.
Contents include: Getting Started; Let's Make a Pin; Pendants, Chains and Necklaces; Rings; Bracelets, Earrings and "Recipes".

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How To Repair Jewelry
by William Phelps
Soft cover, 11" x 8.5", 30 pages, copyright 1987
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Sample Page In just about every home there is at least one favorite piece of jewelry that can't be worn because it has a broken part. The catch for a pin may be snapped off, or a link in a chain has separated.
Instead of being banished to a bureau drawer, these jewelry pieces can often be restored and enjoyed again. If you are already enjoying the craft of jewelry making, you are in a position to learn repair work. There are some special techniques (soldering, for instance) involved in repairing, which are covered in detail in this book.
By following these techniques, you will be able to restore broken chains, replace missing parts, and perform many other repair jobs. Once again, you, your family and friends can enjoy those jewelry items that have special meaning. And if you want some extra income, jewelry repair can be quite lucrative.
Contents of How To Repair Jewelry include: 1 Getting Started: Materials, Notes on Supplies, Accessories and Their Uses, Anti-Oxidizer, Flux, Pickling Solution, Oxidizing Compounds, Cleaning Solution, Rouges and Buffs, Testing Precious Metals, Tools Required for Jewelry Repair, Tools, Accessories and Supplies, Special Tools, How to Form Beads, and Adding a Gemstone to a Flat Mounting; 2 Ring Sizing; 3 Chains and Jump Rings; 4 Pins and Brooches; 5 Stone Settings; 6 Indian Jewelry; 7 Bracelets Indian and Other; and Remodeling Jewelry.

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Indian Jewelry Making
by Oscar T. Branson
Soft cover, 7" x 9.5", 120 pages, copyright 2000.
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Sample Page This best-selling favorite combines former editions Volumes I and II (now out of print) into a full-color presentation of traditional silversmithing techniques in the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni styles. The lavish project and how-to pictures in Indian Jewelry Making illustrate step-by-step details for smithing hundreds of variations on buttons, chains, beads, rings, bracelets, conchas, earrings, hatbands, watchbands, necklaces, boxes, hair ornaments, bola ties, collar corners, pins, pendants, bow guards, canteens, headstalls, tweezers, miniature silver pottery, thimbles, whistles, lighter cases, bells, pistol grips, buckles, kachina figures, goblets and more!
Tool use and smithing techniques including sawing, drawing, rolling, forming, filing, stamping, dapping, soldering, pickling, casting, overlay, polishing and more are all presented in easy to understand pictures illustrating these fundamental processes and techniques. Stone mounting procedures covered include step-by-step for fabricating bezel mounts, petit point and various styles of inlay work. Silver chain and bead making techniques are included. Several traditional silver casting techniques are illustrated including cuttlebone casting, sand casting, and tufa stone casting, with many pieces cast using these methods shown. Even plans for a do-it-yourself jewelers workbench are included along with many helpful tips and ideas for setting up your own shop or workspace for doing jewelry making.
Even old hands at smithing with appreciate Indian Jewelry Making for the wealth of general design ideas provided as well as some of the more unusual and unique projects and artifacts presented. This book belongs in the personal library of any jewelry maker and is highly recommended for anyone interested in how traditional Southwest Indian jewelry is made or in learning more about silversmithing techniques in general.