Handcraft Wire Jewelry: Chains Clasps Pendants

This book offers inspiration to help you create new and exciting jewelry! The instructions are clear, easy to follow with ample pictures. The links are easily adaptable to different sizes and patterns. I have made a number of new pieces already!

Every project in this book is well written with clear step-by-step instructions and inspiring photography. The book has plenty of photography of variations of each project. The wire-wrapped pendants combine classic wire sculpture with wire weaving. There's also a nice selection of hand-crafted findings. However, the strength of this book is the selection of hand-crafted chains - nine of them. Most books about chain making is either chain maille (which I enjoy) or requires soldering. There's not even a simple 1-in 1 which is the foundation of chain mail design. The chains alone make this a great addition to the jewelry-maker's library.

This book might start you breathing heavily. I received Handcraft Wire Jewelry yesterday, and was captivated from the start. The seemingly requisite book pages of info on wire and tools had some info I hadn’t picked up before, and then…. the projects!!!! The project ideas are fresh, and the tutorials are very clear, detailed and well-illustrated. Then, at the end, it has a whole painstakingly-illustrated section on different wire-weaving techniques. Whoopee! I am interested in wire work and always enjoy learning new techniques that I’ll be willing to do and can probably do without too much frustration. I started my wire-working “career” with Eni Oken tutorials, which were so clear and detailed that this total beginner (I had only just seen someone make a wire loop) was able to make what turned out to have been an advanced project (it’s now listed as such). Since then, I’ve looked at lots of how-to books, and gotten ideas, but never really been inspired. This book, on the other hand, is thrilling. Even if I never make anything exactly like something in this book, there are great ideas that I’ll use.

Well written book for a beginner to the wire jewelry world. Lots of decent photos and fairly clear instructions. I'd have preferred each photo to be right next to or under the instruction, but they're both on the same page so I guess I'm being too fussy. Finished projects and the gallery offer up lots of inspiration.

This has become my 'go to' book for chains and pendants - either wrapping Cabachons or beads with holes. The instructions are clear, accurate, and easy to follow. And every project includes multiple other ideas and variations sparking my creativity. I find myself pulling out this book whether I have a pendant and I need to make a chain to go with it, or if I have a beautiful Cabachons or glass piece or a special bead and I want to make a necklace with this as my focal piece.

I liked it had picture with how to do things.

I own now 16 different books on wire working. This is in my top three favorites. My favorite parts are the chains and clasps. I am a little less interested in her style of wire working for pendants, but even still there are 2-3 of those projects I still want to try. The book seems short at 96 pages, on first blush, but it turns out it has all the content of a book twice the size. There's just no fluff and filler - and I appreciate it's succinctness. I am so excited by this book, it was really an excellent find and pleasurable addition to my wire working library. I strongly recommend it!

I have found this book especially helpful for a beginner wire jeweler due to the instructions and many pictures included. The author is well liked and has been working in the field for a long time. She is able to convey her knowledge to others so they can learn the art of wire jewelry making. This is a great investment for any jeweler who wants to learn wire wrapping.

An excellent reference book for making chains. Clear instructions though I would have liked the font size a bit larger and heavier for working from as I kept losing my place.

This is quite an impressive book particularly for an amateur like my good self. Not so sure someone starting out would be able to pull off the 35 different wire patterns; The biggest hurdle 4 me was the vocabulary of jewelery making; google was my best teacher. Watching a mixture of jewellery vids helped me make connections between wire, beads, sterling silver, polymer, etc & learn some vocab in each catagory. Frieght was fast - way b4 the ETA. Not hard cover but sturdier than a soft cover. I will use this 4 years i imagine. Also well priced.

Nel complesso il libro non è male ma le catene sono solo una parte dei lavori spiegati. Molto è dedicato a ciondoli con pietre e tecnica wire. Mi aspettavo più materiale sulle catene che erano quello che mi interessava di più.

very inspiring and creative in ways of wireworking stones

bien reçu le 13 oct. merci