Twisted
Wire Jewellery Techniques and Projects
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- S/ 82.90
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- S/ 82.90
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A beautifully illustrated step-by-step guide to twisting, weaving and wrapping wire jewellery.
In Twisted, wire artist Nadja Shields encourages you to twist, wrap and weave your way to a treasure trove of stunning jewellery. Featuring 15 step-by-step projects, you can use copper, steel, silver or even gold wire and embellish your pieces with sparkling gems or beads.
Before embarking on your first project, discover the techniques used for various weaves, information on tools and materials, details on creating and assembling components, and options for setting gems and beads. After gaining a grasp of the basics, delve into projects ranging from beginner through to advanced, such as simple butterfly earrings, a beaded cuff bracelet and a complex bejewelled pendant.
By the time you have completed the last project, you will have all the skills and techniques you need to become a confident and skilled wire artist, from the first twist to the final polish.
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Shields explains how to create bracelets, pendants, and other jewelry from wire and gems in this gorgeous if challenging debut manual. The overview of tools notes that flat-nose pliers are well-suited for creating prongs, a butane torch is essential for soldering metals, and that texture hammers feature interchangeable heads with different patterns for giving metals extra flair. For materials, Shields reports that copper is her first choice for its malleability, but it can stain skin green or black, and that aluminum is easy to manipulate, but doesn't hold its shape well. The projects make use of a variety of techniques. For the Khepri pendant, Shields shows how to create a sunburst wire weave around a large central bead, and for the "heady bracelet," she details how to artfully coil wires of different gauges around each other. The hammered butterfly earrings require using fine-tipped pliers to bend shepherd's hook ear wires into shape, and the "tama pendant" involves crafting numerous tiny prongs for a gallery wire stone setting. The intricate pieces are uniformly striking, characterized by delicate spiral coils and swooping wire flourishes, but even the "beginner" projects are dauntingly complicated, and the photos and written instructions leave readers to figure out some steps on their own. Experienced jewelers will get the most out of this.
