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JEWELRY MAKING | 49 Beading Necklaces • Ani Afshar • Learn to make two different styles of beaded necklaces with a re- nowned expert. With beads and supplies from any craft store, you can follow the step-by-step color illustrated directions to make a multi-strand choker with an adjustable tie closure and a beaded rope with tassel ends. The author’s practical advice and years of experience show you how to design, build, and finish off projects of exquisite beauty • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 120 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-735-2 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 19.95 CAD Beads & Agate Jewelry To Create Yourself • Connie 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 photographs and step-by-step instructions teach the process, and a photo gallery of other projects will inspire you. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 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 designer 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. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 123 color 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 jew- elry 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 jewel- ry that uses the same techniques will in- spire designs of your own. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 141 color pho- tos • 48 pp • 978-0-7643-2730-8 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Behind the Brooch: A Closer Look at Backs, Catches, and Pin Stems • Lorena Angulo • The focus of this book is on the side of the brooch we usually don’t notice: the re- verse. 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. • 9.13" × 8.13" (232 × 207 mm) • 604 color photos • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-4559-3 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Braided Wire Jewelry with Loretta Henry • Loretta Henry • Braided wire produces pretty, delicate-looking jewelry, including pendants, pins, watchbands, and earrings, using wires, beads, and stones. Monkey, butterfly, and cross shapes are il- lustrated in this book, and you are encouraged to design your own styles. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-867-0 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 19.95 CAD Brazilian Bracelets: Making Friendship Bracelets & More: Making Friendship Brace- lets & More • Florence Bellot • If you love mak- ing 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. • 8.13" × 9.13" (207 × 232 mm) • 133 color photos and drawings • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-4557-9 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Carving Pins • Mary Finn • Accomplished wood- carver and teacher Mary Finn guides readers through the creation of five colorful pin designs: a sunflower, cardinal, bunny, Santa, and rose. In- cludes methods for creating blanks, carving the piece, adding texture and other details, painting, finishing, and attaching a pin to the back. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 180 color photos • 48 pp • 978-0-7643-1548-0 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Chinese Contemporary Jewelry Design • Bi- fei Cao, Shannon Guo • The first book to offer an in-depth look at the forces shaping contemporary jewelry in China, this arresting collection of works by 62 contemporary Chinese jewelry artists offers the variety and energy that China has to offer the field. Cao, an internationally renowned artist resid- ing both in the US and China, puts the work in con- text for the Western jewelry world. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 350 color and b/w photographs • 320 pp • 978-0-7643-6028-2 • HC • $60.00 / £54.99 / 86.00 CAD Contemporary Enameling: Art and Tech- nique • Lilyan Bachrach • The techniques ex- plained are for vitreous, or hard, enamels on metal. More than 30 experienced enamelists share their specialized knowledge for using cloisonne, pli- que-jour, champlev, and basse-taille techniques on silver, gold, foils, and metal clay to make jewelry, vessels, portraits, and more. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 359 color and 14 B/W • 192 pp • 978-0-7643-2355-3 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / 56.95 CAD Contemporary Maasai Beading: 21 Simple Projects Based on Traditional Designs • Becca Marais, RedTribe • A beautiful look into the ancient Maasai tradition of beading! Learn from skilled Maasai artisans, who teach you to make 21 of their own beaded designs as you read their personal stories. The Maasai of the Loita Hills of Kenya established RedTribe Beadwork, a female empowerment enterprise in which the women cre- ate, market, and sell their beaded jewelry. • 8.5" × 10" (216 × 254 mm) • 200+ color photos • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-6552-2 • PB • $26.99 / £24.99 / 37.99 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 cos- tume jewelry, techniques for using each material, tools and materials needed, glossary, and an art- ist’s gallery to inspire your own creative ideas. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 556 color images • 144 pp • 978-0-7643-4149-6 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Creative Variations in Jewelry Design • Mau- rice P. Galli • Step-by-step instruction 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" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 100 color drawings • 204 pp • 978-0-7643-0330-2 • HC • $69.95 / £63.99 / 105.00 CAD Designing Jewelry: Brooches, Bracelets, Necklaces & Accessories • Maurice P. Galli • The process of designing brooches, bracelets, neck- laces, and accessories is carefully explained, illus- trated, and explored in this volume. The beautiful and practical step-by-step format clearly demon- strates the jewelry designing process. Lavishly illus- trated with 89 hand-drawn renderings in full color. • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 89 color drawings • 192 pp • 978-0-88740-631-7 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / 85.00 CAD Drawing for Jewelers: Master Class in Pro- fessional Design • Maria Josep Forcadell Ber- enguer • 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 projects. • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 763 b/w & color images • 192 pp • 978-0-7643-4058- 1 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / 64.00 CAD Enameling • Connie Wagner • Step-by-step in- structions and 252 color photos guide newcomers to enameling through 8 different projects, includ- ing 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 sgraf- fito, counter enamel, and stenciling. Common mis- takes are identified with ways to fix them. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 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 Bosshart • 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 hand- crafted jewelry. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 142 color photos, 70 drawings • 128 pp • 978-0- 88740-874-8 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 36.95 CAD Felt, Fiber, and Stone: Creative Jewelry De- signs & Techniques • Suzanne O'Brien • A dis- cussion 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 de- scribed step-by-step and illustrated photos, with 23 additional projects in the gallery. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 350 color photos • 88 pp • 978-0-7643-3668-3 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Flower Jewelry: A Step-By-Step Work- shop • Ani Afshar • Take a jewelry making workshop with designer Ani Afshar, who will teach you step-by-step to make an ele- gant 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" × 8.5" (279 × 216 mm) • 110 images • 48 pp • 978-0-7643-2855- 8 • PB • $13.00 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Fresh Floral Jewelry: Creating Wearable Art with Wendy AndradeNDSF, AIFD, FBFA • Wendy Andrade, • This instructional intro- duction 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" × 8.5" (279 × 216 mm) • 414 color pho- tos • 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 por- celain layered beads, beads with inclusions, millefiori beads, necklaces, earrings, and buttons. • 11" × 8.5" (279 × 216 mm) • 104 color photos • 80 pp • 978-0-7643- 2377-5 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD