Art&DesignWinter2024

Making Christmas Jewelry in Polymer Clay Bridget Albano. Festive necklaces, pins, and earrings of your own making. Patterns for endearing angels, Christmas trees, gifts, holly, gingerbread men, teddy bears, and old Saint Nick himself are provided, with easily followed instructions and clear color photography • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 222 photos/patterns • 64 pp. • 978-0-88740-832-8 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD Making Simple Felted Jewelry Marsha Fletch- er. Make a brooch, necklace, wrap-around bracelet, and accessorize a purse and a hat. These fun, wool jewelry pieces are sure to freshen up all wardrobes. Step-by-step directions and basic techniques are demonstrated through 113 color images, along with 4 featured projects • 8 1/8" x 9 1/8" (206 x 231mm) • 113 color images & 1 b/w image • 64 pp. • 978-0- 7643-3570-9 • PB • $9.99 / £9.99 / $13.99 CAD Making Wood Jewelry: Southwest Style Thom- as Freese. A fun guide to creating simple wooden jewelry. Craft pins, beads, pendants, and earrings evoke delightful desert art. With practical safety tips and a discussion of the best tools, anyone can get started. Design discussion and many project photographs will launch you in creating exquisite jewelry perfect for gifts. Explore techniques for wood burning, inlayed stones, and repurposed exotic woods • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 152 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-3414-6 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / $17.99 CAD Enameling Connie Wagner. Step-by-step instructions and 252 color photos guide newcomers to enameling through 8 different projects, including creating test enamel tiles, reversible earrings, bracelets, multiple piece pendants, a flower pin, enameled beads, and words with enamel. Features different techniques, including scrolling and sgraffito, counter enamel, and stenciling. Common mistakes are identified with ways to fix them • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 252 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-3444-3 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / $19.99 CAD Fashion Jewelry to Make Yourself Renate Boss- hart. More than 100 jewelry designs made with simple techniques. These are amazing, unique pieces that will complete any woman’s wardrobe with startling effects. The design palette ranges from simple to extravagant, from carefree to richly precious. Easy to follow, step- by-step instructions are included which will produce beautiful handcrafted jewelry • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 142 color photos, 70 drawings • 128 pp. • 978-0- 88740-874-8 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Felt, Fiber, and Stone: Creative Jewelry Designs & Techniques Suzanne O’Brien. A discussion of materials and techniques in crocheting, making felt flowers, and beading, with instructions for making chunky brooches, earrings, necklaces, and funky cuff bracelets. There are 12 projects described step-by-step and illustrated photos, with 23 additional projects in the gallery. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 350 color photos • 88 pp. • 978-0-7643-3668-3 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / $23.99 CAD Flower Jewelry Ani Afshar. Take a jewelry making workshop with designer Ani Afshar, who will teach you step-by-step to make an elegant flower brooch, a flower lariat necklace, and flower dangle earrings with colored beads and fishing wire. A gallery of similar styles Ani has made with different beads and colors will inspire you to keep creating • 11"x81/2" (279x215mm) • 110 photos • 48 pp. • 978-0-7643-2855-8 • PB • $13.00 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD Fresh Floral Jewelry: Creating Wearable Art withWendy Andrade, NDSF, AIFD, FBFA Wendy Andrade. This instructional introduction to the world of floral design jewelry making is the first of its kind. Learn how to make beautiful, intricate jewelry with wire, beads, and little else to resemble foliage in which to set your orchids, succulents, and many more floral varieties. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 414 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-4411-4 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD How to Make Wonderful Porcelain Beads and Jewelry Vicki Kahn. More than 100 color photos and clear instructions guide readers through the creation of porcelain layered beads, beads with inclusions, millefiori beads, necklac- es, earrings, and buttons • 11"x81/2" (279x215 mm) •104color photos•80pp. •978-0-7643-2377- 5 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Contemporary Enameling: Art and Technique Lilyan Bachrach. The techniques explained are for vitreous, or hard, enamels on metal. More than 30 experienced enamelists share their specialized knowl- edge for using cloisonne, plique-jour, champlev, and basse-taille techniques on silver, gold, foils, and met- al clay to make jewelry, vessels, portraits, and more • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 359 color & 14 b/w photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-2355-3 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Costume Jewelry Elvira López Del Prado Rivas. With illustrated, step-by-step instructions, learn how to make various pieces of costume jewelry with enameled copper wire, felt, polymeric clay, cloth, and paper. Chapters include a history of costume jewelry, techniques for using each material, tools and materials needed, glossary, and an artist’s gallery to inspire your own creative ideas. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 556 color images•144pp. •978-0-7643-4149-6•PB•$29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Creative Variations in Jewelry Design Maurice P. Galli, Dominique Rivière, & Fanfan Li. Step-by-step in- struction through the creative drawing process for twenty-five different styles of jewelry sets, with four variations for each. From each specific design idea, you will see jewelry being developed in silver and gold, old gold, gold with diamonds, and platinum with precious stones. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) • 100 color drawings • 204 pp. • 978-0-7643-0330-2 • HC • $69.95 / £63.99 / $105.00 CAD Designing Jewelry: Brooches, Bracelets, Neck- laces & Accessories Maurice P. Galli, Dominique Rivière, and Fanfan Li. The process of designing brooch- es, bracelets, necklaces, and accessories is carefully explained, illustrated, and explored in this volume. The beautiful and practical step-by-step format clearly demonstrates the jewelry designing process. Lavishly illustrated with 89 hand-drawn renderings in full color. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 89 illustrations • 192 pp. • 978-0-88740-631-7 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Drawing for Jewelers: Master Class in Profes- sional Design Maria Josep Forcadell Berenguer and Josep Asunción Pastor. This book teaches how to use drawing as a means of expressing jewelers’ creative ideas. Mastering this tool can be a great resource that can help jewelers to progress easily and steadily with designing jewelry and presenting their ideas and proj- ects. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) •763 b/w& color images • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-4058-1 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Beads & Agate Jewelry to Create Yourself Con- nie Wagner. Learn how to create earrings, a pin, a barrette, and a necklace, and various ways to embellish these projects to change their look. 170 color photo- graphs and step-by-step instructions teach the process, and a photo gallery of other projects will inspire you • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 145 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-2998-2 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / $19.99 CAD Beads & Strings Jewelry: A Step-by-Step Workshop Ani Afshar. Chicago jewelry design- er Ani Afshar teaches you step-by-step to weave jewelry with beads, fishing line, and wire. Learn to make a 10-strand bead necklace with clusters of various beads, a beaded coil choker with memory wire and fishing line, and seed bead loop earrings • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 123 photos • 48 pp. • 978-0-7643-2731-5 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD Beads & Wires Jewelry: A Step-by-Step Workshop Ani Afshar. Step-by-step methods for weaving jewelry with beads and sterling silver wires. Create 5-strand and 3-strand necklaces and a 3-strand pearl bracelet with beads of your choice, or similar to those in the demonstrations. A gallery of Ani’s jewelry that uses the same techniques will inspire designs of your own • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 141 color photos • 48 pp. • 978-0-7643-2730-8 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD Behind the Brooch: The Art of Backs & Clasps Lorena Angulo. The focus of this book is on the side of the brooch we usually don’t notice: the reverse. Clever brooch makers adorn backs with items meant to complement the front. The backside may even have a unique, intricate design all its own. When you flip a brooch over in your hand, find a surprise message or a hidden pattern • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 604 color photos•176pp. •978-0-7643-4559-3•HC•$34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99CAD Braided Wire Jewelry with Loretta Henry Lo- retta Henry. Braided wire produces pretty, delicate-look- ing jewelry, including pendants, pins, watchbands, and earrings, using wires, beads, and stones. Monkey, butterfly, and cross shapes are illustrated in this book, and you are encouraged to design your own styles • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • color photos • 64 pp. • 978- 0-88740-867-0 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD Brazilian Bracelets: Making Friendship Brace- lets & More Florence Bellot. If you love making meaningful gifts for friends or just desire to accessorize with style without breaking the bank, this book is a must-have. Choose from more than 20 projects and 75 variations • 8 1/8" x 9 1/8" (206 x 231mm) • 133 images•64pp.•978-0-7643-4557-9•HC•$24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Carving Pins Mary Finn. Accomplished woodcarv- er and teacher Mary Finn guides readers through the creation of five colorful pin designs: a sunflower, car- dinal, bunny, Santa, and rose. Includes methods for creating s, carving the piece, adding texture and other details, painting, finishing, and attaching a pin to the back • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 180 color photos • 48 pp. • 978-0-7643-1548-0 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD 90 | JEWELRY: MAKING