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Wild Women: Stitched Art Brooches (Twenty to Make)
Crafters and jewelry and textile artists will delight in the brooch projects in this guidebook that reveals how to make the basic shapes of lady brooches as well as how to embellish them to give each one a personality. These crafts focus on embroidery, beading, wiring, and threading for making fabulous, fun, unique pins. The instructions take the crafter from start to finish, offering 20 individual and distinct designs to create zany, funky, female-shaped jewelry. .
Price: $6.02
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Brooches: Timeless Adornment
Brooches:Timeless Adornment is the first book on the subject of vintage and contemporary pins and brooches Beginning with an illustrated history of how this jewelry form has evolved—from Roman fibulae to scatter pins and starbursts—this gorgeously illustrated volume presents more than 175 of the best examples of fine, costume, and artisan jewelry made by top designers, among them Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Georg Jensen, and Ted Muehling. Fashion stylists, celebrity collectors, and jewelry experts share their enthusiasm for the brooch and offer their ideas on how to accessorize with favorite pieces. These dazzling photographs show the jewelry as adornments to stunning jackets, dresses, and coats, and demonstrate how this piece has become a fabulous style statement. Practical information about storing, cleaning, and repair complete this indispensable resource for jewelry fans..
Price: $27.26
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500 Brooches: Inspiring Adornments for the Body (500 Series)
Never before has such an extensive and beautiful collection of brooches been assembled, or photographed to such perfection Marjorie Simon, a distinguished presence in the jewelry field, chose the pieces, and every one features the fine craftsmanship of a top contemporary jeweler. The breathtaking and provocative styles range from traditional to very avant-garde, and the brooches come not only in gold, silver, copper, and wire, but also in glass, porcelain, paper, and other more unusual materials. They're forged, soldered, chased, and cast, and surface embellishments run the gamut from enamel and metal foils to patinas and inlay. In some cases, detail images and artist's comments accompany the full-size photos. Jewelers, students, collectors, and anyone who loves exquisite items will appreciate the amazing diversity on display here. .
Price: $13.39
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Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches and Rings using Crystal Beads
This book offers over fifty designs, from elegant necklaces and pendants, shimmering bracelets and brooches to sparkling earrings and hairslides, all featuring crystal beads. The sets of jewellery presented here are both attractive and inventive, and use all sorts of crystals, including teardrop, faceted and seed beads, crystal bicones and cubes, and even imitation gemstones. Each project is explained in simple step-by-step stages, each with accompanying photographs and diagrams to help you follow how each bead is strung and each thread is woven. You can use the projects to reproduce the jewellery shown, or use them as inspiration for your own designs. Whether you are an expert or a beginner, this book will help show you how to make beautiful jewellery using gorgeous crystals. .
Price: $7.88
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Christmas Tree Pins: O Christmas Tree (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
For many people, decorating for Christmas includes wearing jewelry with seasonal designs. The range of Christmas tree pins, shown in over 1,200 beautiful color photographs, described, identified, and valued here, will astound you. Over 1,100 different pins, from the mid-20th century to the present, made by more than 200 designers and manufacturers, are alphabetically ordered for easy reference. The identifying marks, company dates, and materials are listed for each pin. Beauty distinguishes many of the designs, and the rhinestones, enamels, and metalwork are of the finest quality. The hunt for Christmas tree pins is a year-round persuit, and this book will certainly inspire you to start your own collection..
Price: $23.24
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Bracelets, Buttons & Brooches: 20 Projects Using Innovative Beading Techniques
Attendance at the Bead & Button Show, the largest consumer bead show in the world, has grown by more than 400 percent in six years. Book contains various projects for a range of skill levels. Brooches, Buttons & Bracelets teaches you how to use a few basic beadwork techniques to create a beautiful beaded brooch, a button to adorn a favorite jacket, or a stunning bracelet with an attitude all its own. Whether you prefer using existing buttons, or designing your own, this beautiful bead book will help you expand your basic skills, through 200+ step-by-step photos and illustrations of techniques including peyote stitch, brick stitch, ladder stitch and fringe, featured in 20 projects. In addition you'll discover instructions for two types of cabochon beadwork and bead encasing..
Price: $10.89
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100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
More is better in this hefty collection of adornments for all occasions One hundred projects are organized by season for ease of selection, whether it's the season for a summery Daisy Chain or Petal Rope necklace or the weather for an autumnal Fringed Pendant or Pearl Lozenge necklace. Also included are up-to-the-minute earring designs, sophisticated chokers, and the newest trends in brooches. Designs draw from a huge variety of materials, from tiny seed beads to stunning focal beads made from stone, shell, or bamboo. Each project is like a recipe, with a list of needed materials and tools, numbered instructions, and the size of the finished piece. There is even a technique section to prepare beaders for every method they encounter, making this book a primer for those just starting out and a well of project ideas for those with more experience. .
Price: $10.90
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Sculpted Threads: Artful Brooches, Earrings and More (That Patchwork Place)
Imagine earrings, a brooch, a bowl, a bag---all made out of yards of gorgeous, colorful threads! Sound impossible? Simply stitch threads onto water-soluble stabilizer; then immerse your project in water. Only dazzling threads remain. * Sew multiple layers of thread to create amazing blends of color, depth, and dimension in eight projects, plus several variations * No special skills required---all you need are machine-embroidery threads and a home sewing machine * Embellish projects with beaded flowers, branches, lines, edgings, and more.
Price: $10.86
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Designing Jewelry: Brooches, Bracelets, Necklaces and Accessories
The process of designing jewelry is carefully explained. This second book follows the tremendous success of the author's book The Art of Jewelry Design: Principles of Design, Rings & Earrings. It has taken the combined talents of three top jewelry designers, including a professor who teaches their skill to jewelry students, to create this beautiful and practical step-by-step format. This volume presents progressive detailed text, sketches and finished drawings of many varieties of brooch, bracelet and necklace designs. From such drawings the manufacturing jeweler can assemble the objects themselves. This book teaches how to create those drawings..
Price: $42.73
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