Making Designer Jewelry from Hardware, Gems, and Beads
Nicole Noelle Sherman
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1592534228
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Interest in beading and jewelry-making continues to grow. Making Designer Jewelry from Hardware, Beads, and Gems offers DIY crafters and jewelry-makers a fun, funky approach to jewelry constructed from not only glass beads, pearls, and semi-precious gemstones, but shows how to incorporate simple stainless steel, aluminum, copper, brass and tin hardware, such as nuts, bolts, washers, and tubing, into stunning, innovative, and modern jewelry pieces.
Using hardware in jewelry has become popular, and features an aesthetic twist that mixes "high" and "low" --inexpensive and common metal hardware with favorite bead-store jewels.
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SECTIONS, IF THE END CAPS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE MEMORY WIRE, BUT REMAIN ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE TUBING, THE SECTIONS WILL SLIP AND WIRE CAN BE EXPOSED. I SOLVED THIS BY CREATING MY OWN LOOPS ON THE ENDS OF THE MEMORY WIRE, BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT THE WIRE IS HARD AND A STRONG HAND IS NEEDED TO FORM A LOOP. BRAIDED LEATHER Braided leather is a very sexy material. The roughness of the weave contrasted with the soft feel of natural leather is an appealing combination. Large brass hex.
Middle row of the bracelet. Close the loop tightly. 2. In the same manner, continue to attach all of the eye pins skipping every other link along the middle row of the bracelet. You will be left with a spiky row of eye pins sticking off the middle row of the bracelet. 3. Starting with any of the eye pins, slide one of the lock nuts onto the eye pin followed by a blue glass bead. 4. Start and complete a wrap loop, snuggly anchoring the blue glass bead and the nut to the link of the.
Crimp beads are small metal beads that are used to finish off necklaces and bracelets strung with stringing wire. They come in a tube shape or round bead; the tube shape is used in the projects in this book. JUMP RINGS AND SPLIT RINGS Jump rings are used frequently in jewelry making in conjunction with clasps or to form links. Split rings are also available in various sizes. CORD END AND PINCH END CLASPS Cord end caps are used with leather, rubber, fabric cord, or ribbon. Adjustable.
Mine, Mr. Tucker, who has passed away. I never really knew either of my grandfathers (they were gone before I was old enough to remember), but if I could pick someone to be my grandfather it would be Mr. Tucker. He was kind and considerate, a man who cared more for the little things-like a chat with a neighbor-than where you came from or how important you thought you were. The memories of the time spent with him will always be with me. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you once again to Mary Ann.
Open to reveal their mysteries: fancy wing nuts, brass clamps, sliding latches and a multitude of sizes of simple nuts and bolts. I didn’t have to wonder about the uses for this hardware, I knew immediately what they were made for. Necklaces of hex nuts and washers, strung on bits of twine or leather strapping, began to appear around my neck. I made bracelets for all my best friends, fashioning new creations from leftover bits that had long since lost their meaning. A pipe clamp became a.