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50 | JEWELRY MAKING, KNIFE MAKING Making Christmas Jewelry in Polymer Clay • Bridget Albano • Festive necklaces, pins, and ear- rings 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. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 208 color photos, 14 patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-832-8 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Making Simple Felted Jewelry • Marsha Fletcher • 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. • 8.13" × 9.13" (207 × 232 mm) • 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 • Thomas 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, any- one can get started. Design discussion and many project photographs will launch you in creating ex- quisite jewelry perfect for gifts. Explore techniques for wood burning, inlayed stones, and repurposed exotic woods. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 152 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-3414-6 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD Mastering Contemporary Jewelry De- sign: Inspiration, Process, and Finding Your Voice • Loretta Lam • This valuable guide from instructor and expert Loretta Lam makes jewelry design both attainable and understandable. The basic principles are explained to aid starting designers, and each section has breakout exercises enabling any level of jewelry artist to experiment with the concepts before applying them to works. • 10.5" × 9" (267 × 229 mm) • 200 color images • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-5919-4 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Metal Jewelry Techniques: Enameling, Engraving, Setting, and Mounting – A Masterclass • Carles Codina • This book takes a detailed and visual approach to metal working techniques, showing the most common processes and techniques used in jewelry making today, including enameling, engraving, and mounting gem stones. Accompanying the text are more than 260 images and drawings that help to identify each step of the processes shown. • 9.13" × 8.13" (232 × 207 mm) • 256 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-4532-6 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Mixed Media Jewelry Techniques • Lana May • Nine exciting projects combining various mate- rials into jewelry designs for necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and more. Each project brings together two or three techniques, each of which could also be used for independent projects. The techniques include wire work, beading, chain mail, glass bead- ing, macramé, bead stitching, metal and polymer clay, netting, and PMC. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 325 color photos & illus. • 96 pp • 978-0- 7643-3429-0 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD Off-Loom Woven Bead Necklaces • Deb Di- Marco • This comprehensive guide to off-loom, seed bead weaving uses the square stitch to explore design patterns. A photo-illustrated in- structional chapter clearly explains stitching and joining techniques. This easy-to-read pattern book is for anyone interested in learning off-loom, seed bead weaving. Three necklace projects and three bracelet patterns are included. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 230 color photos • 128 pp • 978-0- 7643-3306-4 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Paper Jewelry: 55 Projects for Reusing Paper • Barbara Baumann, Flurina Hodel • With detailed instructions, templates, and colorful photography, this book shows how to craft fifty-five paper jew- elry projects. Colorful and graphic projects range from necklaces, brooches, earrings, and bracelets to hair accessories. • 8.13" × 9.13" (207 × 232 mm) • 217 color photos • 176 pp • 978-0-7643- 4852-5 • PB • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Pearl Projects for Beaders • Daphne Yu • De- tailed photographs, diagrams, and simple-to-fol- low instructions guide you through 23 projects that showcase pearls with crystals and semi-precious stones. Includes 186 color images and 47 patterns, and both the beginner and advanced beader will enjoy making classical to funky pieces perfect for wearing or gifts. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 186 color images/47 patterns • 112 pp • 978-0- 7643-3552-5 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Polymer Clay Jewelry: The Art of Caning: The Art of Caning • Mathilde Brun • Creating cane- based clay jewelry is made simple and easy with direction from Mathilde Brun. Supported by more than 400 step-by-step illustrations, material lists, and instructional guidance on making clay 'canes' that can be repurposed for several different jewelry pieces, this book provides everything you need to realize your own unique jewelry and design poten- tial. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 408 color images & diagrams • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-4456-5 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Ribbon Jewelry • Ani Afshar • Join design- er Ani Afshar for a jewelry making workshop to create a bead necklace with long ribbon streamers, another bead necklace with cropped ribbons, and a pair of beaded drop earrings. 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) • 120 images • 48 pp • 978-0-7643-2856-5 • PB • $13.00 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Turning Segmented Wooden Bangles on the Wood Lathe • Don Jovag, Jeanne Jovag • Us- ing more than 100 photos, this book guides you through each step of the process for successful bangle turning on a small lathe. Expert woodwork- er Don Jovag offers clear instructions for easy-to- build fixtures, techniques, and designs. Also includ- ed are tips that help your workmanship shine. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 128 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-4962-1 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Turning Wooden Jewelry • Judy Ditmer • Beautiful, fanciful jewelry from the wood lathe. Beginning with the turning of tiny “bowls” by hand from a variety of wood, Judy takes the turner step-by-step through the process of creating this wearable art form. Each step is illustrated with a color photograph and captioned in a concise and informative way. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 250+ color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-611-9 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 19.95 CAD Wire & Fused Jewelry: Techniques from the Sandkühler Studio • Iris Sandkühler • The beginner is taken through every step of the wire fusing process, starting with a detailed discussion of tools and materials. Projects designed to suc- cessively build on your skills in working with wire, starting with a simple charm bracelet and pro- gressing to more complicated decorative chain and composition work. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 191 color photos • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-3445-0 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD You Can Make Wire & Bead Jewelry • Patricia De Marco • Time, space, and affordability of the materials are kept minimal, so the jewelry-making process remains fun. Includes instructions and photographs of 60 necklace, bracelet, and earrings sets in combinations of glass, ceramic, or metal beads with wire elements of various types. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 60 color photos • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-2729-2 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Basic Knife Making: From Raw Steel to a Finished Stub Tang Knife • Ernst G. Siebene- icher-Hellwig • Learn the craft of knifemaking. 205 color images and step-by-step instructions provide for all stages of construction, from selection of the steel to forging the blade, assembling the handle, and constructing a holder. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 205 color images/10 drawings • 112 pp • 978-0-7643-3508-2 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Damascus Steel: Theory and Practice • Gun- ther Löbach • This comprehensive book unravels various types of Damascus steel before delving into the theory and mechanics of forging your own complex Damascus steel creations. Complete with material and equipment requirements, safe- ty precautions, practical tips, temperature charts, and examples of finished works, this book offers inspiration and the fundamentals of working in this ancient medium. • 7" × 10" (178 × 254 mm) • 225+ images, diagrams, & poster • 176 pp • 978- 0-7643-4294-3 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD Fancy Knives: A Complete Analysis & Intro- duction to Make Your Own • Stefan Steiger- wald • Through over 300 color photos and concise text, you can learn the materials, qualities, working styles, and handle materials of penknives. Knife decorating techniques include engraving, etching, inlay, scrimshaw, and coloring. • 7" × 10" (178 × 254 mm) • 316 color photos • 184 pp • 978- 0-7643-3067-4 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Forging Damascus Steel Knives for Begin- ners • Ernst G. Siebeneicher-Hellwig • With this guide, novice blacksmiths and bladesmiths have a practical and budget-conscious approach to forg- ing their own Damascus steel knives. Starting with the basics, this practical guide shows how easy it can be to build a simple Damascus-grade forge; forge Damascus steel into different patterns; and forge a blade into shape, harden it, and turn it into a finished knife. • 6" × 9" (152 × 229 mm) • 180+ photos & diagrams • 104 pp • 978-0-7643- 4012-3 • PB w/spiral • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Forging Japanese Knives for Beginners • Ernst G. Siebeneicher-Hellwig • Learn how to make two types of Japanese knives—a tanto (dag- ger) and a hocho (chef’s knife)—using traditional techniques. With step-by-step images and clear instructions, this how-to guide covers acquiring iron ore, building and using a bloomery furnace, forging the blades, fitting the blades with handles, and sharpening the blades with water stones. • 6" × 9" (152 × 229 mm) • 195 color photos • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-4556-2 • PB w/spiral • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Japanese Knife Sharpening: With Traditional Waterstones • Rudolf Dick • Everything readers should know about sharpening Japanese blades. The author expert explains special Japanese knives, helps readers choose the correct sharpening stones, and gives detailed guidance for practice. A chapter on the pinnacle of blade sharpening, polishing Jap- anese swords, completes the standard work for all users. • 6" × 9" (152 × 229 mm) • 151 color & b/w images • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-4680-4 • PB w/spiral • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD KNIFE MAKING