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Kumihimo Wire Jewelry
by Giovanna Imperia

Publisher: Potter Craft
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780823085514

For jewellery makers, beaders and wireworkers at all skill levels who want to learn about and explore the creative possibilities of a time-honoured Japanese braiding technique. In Kumihimo Wire Jewelry, jewellery designer and workshop instructor Giovanna Imperia shows jewellery makers how to use the tools and techniques of kumihimo, an ancient Japanese braiding technique, to create beautiful wire jewellery. Features 20 accessible projects.

Price: £16.99

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Totally Twisted
by Kerry Bogert

Publisher: Interweave Press
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781596681682

Artist Kerry Bogert, whose signature work incorporates accents of colored wire and glass beads, shares years of design expertise in this book. Learn to master basic wireworking techniques plus creative ways to combine colored wire, sterling wire, and glass beads into jewelry design. Beginning and intermediate wire jewelry crafters will learn how to successfully bring color into their wirework with Totally Twisted.

Price: £16.99

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The Encyclopedia of Wire Jewellery Techniques
by Sara Withers, Xuella Arnold

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9781844485260

Whether you are an experienced jewellery-maker looking to move up to the next level, or a complete beginner, The Encyclopedia of Wire Jewellery Making Techniques is an invaluable resource. Using this book you can: Learn how to manipulate wire to create elegant structural designs for earrings, rings, pendants, necklaces, tiaras and brooches with clear, illustrated instructions Combine wire with beads and stones through threading and wrapping for an intricately embellished look Have fun experimenting with different types of wire, from precious metal to electrical and recycled wires Progress from basic wire-working skills to more advanced techniques, such as making linked jump-ring chains, simple soldering, and using chemicals to alter the wire finish.

Price: £12.99

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Wirework
by Dale 'Cougar' Armstrong

Publisher Interweave Press
Edition Paperback + DVD

Achieve the look of designer wire jewelry with this step-by-step guide for the intermediate artist seeking new design possibilities combined with solid technique instruction. Dale 'Cougar' Armstrong showcases her classic jewelry style with 18 projects and traditional wireworking techniques using hard wire. All the projects are shown with detailed step-by-step photography. Also included is a gallery of work from the author and her students to inspire, using techniques featured throughout the book. Readers will enjoy learning how to wire-wrap using faceted stones, how to create pendants with any size or shape of faceted stone, how to use several methods for working with and setting faceted stones, plus mixing wire gauges and tempers to create stable yet creative pieces. Wirework will challenge artists to be creative, think outside the box, and transform jewelry into their own style.
Price: £19.99

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Wire Style
by Denise Peck

Publisher Interweave Press
Edition Paperback

Wire jewelry is one of the hottest trends in jewelry making. Wire Style, from the editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine, is a collection of fifty contemporary, stylish, and absolutely wearable designs. Begin with a primer on basic tools and techniques for getting started, then launch right into chic, beautiful designs for bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and pendants handpicked from a collection of top jewelry designers. Each project features a comprehensive materials list and thorough step-by-step instructions. Various types of wire and chain are mixed up with stones, beads, and cords for an interesting and assorted collection of designs. Wire Style has everything you need to know to begin your journey or to perfect your wire-working skills.
Price: £12.99

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Tiaras & Hairpins
by Michelle Bungay

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Using simple techniques, Michelle Bungay shows you how to create exquisite tiaras and hairpins using gold and silver wires and crystals. Her unique, eye-catching designs have a contemporary yet timeless appeal, making them suitable for all styles of wedding and other special occasions. With twenty different designs and an alternative version of each one that can be made using the same techniques, this book is a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration that you will want to plunge into again and again.
Price: £4.99

Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet
by Mary Hetmansperger

Publisher Lark
Edition Hardback

Making gorgeous handcrafted jewellery can be an amazingly simple process that even beginners will quickly master—as long as they have this guide by their side. Written by an experienced artist and teacher, and generously illustrated with attractive how-to photos and drawings, it demonstrates a wealth of easy techniques in superb detail. Twenty dazzling projects—including a twisted wire choker, bangle bracelet, bead pod pin, and mixed metal earrings— are created by wrapping, stitching, and folding metal, and by making cold connections with basic screws, bolts, pop rivets, eyelets, brads, and nails. Sophisticated photographs of each piece highlight its rich textures and visual complexity.
Price: £16.99

Wire Jewelry Workshop
by Susan Ray

Publisher Krause
Edition Paperback

This title provides basic skills for making jewellery including: chain maille, cutting wire, making loops, straightening and bending wire, making eye loops, eye-pin pendant bails, jump rings and dangles. Over 20 projects are clearly shown with coloured photographs and illustrations. Inspirational gallery pieces are featured throughout the book to encourage and entice readers to design their own beaded jewellery.
Price: £16.99

Wire Jewellery: Crocheted, Twisted, Knitted & Beaded
by Chrissie Day

Publisher Cico Books
Edition Paperback

This book teaches you how to create dramatic, eye-catching wire and bead jewellery using newly developed techniques, including crocheting with wire and using pre-knitted wires.There is now a huge range of wires widely available to the crafter. When partnered with gleaming gemstones, miniature seed beads, shimmering crystals and rich fire-polished beads, these humble wires become a work of art, and a highly covetable piece of unique jewellery.This book provides 35 projects and variations, all illustrated with step-by-step photography and clear instructions, plus beautiful, close-up photographs of the finished pieces.
Price: £12.99

Great Wire Jewellery
by Irene From Peterson

Publisher Lark
Edition Hardback

Based on traditional techniques invented by the Vikings, these 70 gorgeous projects are ideal for both beginners and advanced crafters. Includes 200 colour photgraphs.
Price: £12.95

Making Wire Jewellery
by Helen Clegg and Mary Larom

Publisher Lark
Edition Paperback

60 easy projects in silver, copper and brass. With step-by-step instructions, this is an ideal book for newcomers to the craft. 300+ illustrations and 32 colour photographs.
Price: £12.95

Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing
by Liz Jones

Publisher Interweave Press
Edition Paperback

Silver jewelry is a classic accessory that never goes out of style. Crafters and jewelry makers will learn to create dazzling silver designs with Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing, an all-in-one guide to a no-muss, no-fuss version of silversmithing. Even the most basic beginner and the most experienced jewelry maker will find silver fusing to be fun, easy to master, and extremely inspiring and addictive. Projects include rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and pins.
Price: £14.99

Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping
by Linda Chandler

Publisher Interweave Press
Edition Paperback

Wire is a favorite design material for jewelry artists, allowing for the creation of simple loops and embellishments to more involved, intricate pieces. Using detailed process photography, Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping shows all the basics of wire wrapping step by step then takes the reader through progressive skill building projects to teach a range of wrapping techniques. Projects include bracelets, earrings, pins, and wire wrapped pendants and also include instructions for the highly sought-after wire-wrapped cabochon.
Price: £15.99

Making Bead and Wire Jewellery
by Dawn Cusick

Publisher Lark
Edition Paperback

Two best selling topics - bead jewellery and wire jewellery - are together at last! Here are 75 stunning pieces, using simple tools and easy techniques. Full colour throughout.
Price: £12.95

Getting Started Making Wire Jewelry and More
by Linda Chandler & Christine Ritchey

Publisher Interweave Press
Edition Hardback

Getting Started Making Wire Jewelry will get you going, with more than 100 color photographs that walk you, step by step, through the entire process, from where and how to shop for wire and beads, choosing the right kind and gauge of wire, to what tools of the trade you will need.
Price: £12.99

Silver Wire Jewellery
by Irene From Petersen

Publisher Lark
Edition Hardback

Each of the 99 projects in this elegant collection show exactly why wire jewellery has become today's hot craft. Every piece is graded for difficulty. Full colour throughout.
Price: £9.95

Jewellery Handbooks: Wire Jewellery
by Hans Stofer

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

As well as being one of the earliest and most traditional materials for making jewellery, wire is one of the most accessible of jewellery making materials. Hans Stofer’s practical book is an essential introductory guide to wire jewellery for newcomers and a highly useful reference tool and source of inspiration for established jewellers.
Price: £14.99

Links
by Jean Yates

Publisher Northlight
Edition Paperback

Links encourages crafters to create jewellery inspired by their own lives and surroundings. Readers will find 35 fabulous step-by-step intermediate-level jewellery projects including bracelets necklaces earrings and pins. They'll read the story that inspired each piece and then be prompted to create their own unique jewelry based on personal experiences. Creative prompts and sidebar interviews with working crafters are sprinkled throughout for added inspiration. Includes the hottest jewellery techniques - everybody is experimenting with chain maille and unique art beads - this book explores both!
Price: £14.99

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