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Handcrafted Wire Findings, Techniques and Designs for Custom Jewelry Components

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Handcrafted Wire Findings

electronic resource

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Techniques and Designs for Custom Jewelry Components

Add personal style at minimal cost with custom-made findings. Why spend hundreds of dollars stocking up on expensive manufactured clasps, jump rings, ear wires, bails, and more when you can make exactly what you need for a fraction of the cost? Making custom findings enables jewelry makers to affordably create just the right component to complement their own jewelry designs. Handcrafted Wire Findings looks at your wire stash and focuses on how to create custom, professional-quality findings. With fundamental skills for beginners that progress to more sophisticated designs, this book covers tec

Introduction; Wire Basics; Tools; Techniques; FINDINGS:; EAR WIRES; Circle Loop Ear Wires; Kidney Ear Wires; Double-Loop French Ear Wires; Tumbleweed French Ear Wires; Fiddlehead Ear Wires; Vine Ear Wires; Circle Post Ear Wires; Spiral Post Ear Wires; LINKS & CONNECTORS; Fused Oval Links; Decorative Fused Link; Hammered Ring Connector; Sailor's Knot Link; Wired Ring Link; Twisted Beaded Link; Textured Corkscrew Link; Lasso Link; Figure-Eight Link; Yin-Yang Link; S-HOOK CLASPS; Hammered S-Hook Clasp; Ball-End Hammered S-Hook Clasp; Ball-End Textured S-Hook ClaspS-Hook Clasp with BeadHOOK CLASPS; Ball-End Hook-and-Eye Clasp; Oversized Wrapped Simple Hook Clasp; Vine Hook Clasp; Double Hook-and-Eye Clasp; TOGGLE CLASPS; Hammered Toggle Clasp; Asian Toggle Clasp; Twisted Toggle Clasp; Ball-End Toggle Clasp; Lashed Toggle Clasp; Decorative Balls Toggle Clasp; EXTRAS; Ribbon Bail; Knot Spacer; GALLERY; Resources; Index