Create Your Own Jewellery

This book features over 100 inspiring ways to make stunning pieces from all kinds of materials, with practical step-by-step projects. It includes over 100 ideas and easy-to-make projects, plus scores of tips, ideas and inspirations for creating all kinds of hand-crafted jewelery. It features every kind of jewelery - from bangles, brooches and pins, to necklaces, rings, pendants and earrings, plus ideas for buttons, badges, cuff links, hair ornaments and trinket boxes. All techniques shown in fully illustrated step-by-step format - clear, simple and easy to achieve. Stunning pictures of every finished piece, with over 800 color photographs in total. This book covers a wide range of different techniques using easy-to-find equipment and materials: including wire, beads, fabric, shells, ceramics and paper. Templates are provided for all patterns and motifs. A materials checklist is included for each project, so you can see what you need before getting started. This book is designed to teach you everything you need to know about making jewelery, and to give you hundreds of ideas and projects to use your new skills. Each chapter opens with a highly practical section covering all the materials, techniques and equipment you will need for the craft techniques covered in that chapter, making it all very simple so that you can get started with complete confidence. The the projects section of each chapter brings together all kinds of different crafts - from rag work and enameling to bead work and mosaics - in a wonderful collection of simple-to-make but inspired and stylish pieces that you will love making and enjoy wearing - either for just one night, or for years to come.