With this book there's no need for hammering, sawing, or even a kiln, making it accessible to anyone.
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher: Krause Publications
ISBN: 0896895947
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 128
View: 670
Today's revolution in jewelry making is quite simple, literally. With few tools and basic silversmithing skills readers can quickly and easily create intricate pieces of solid silver jewelry using the easy-to-follow instructions in Magical Metal Clay Jewelry. More than 250 step-by-step color photos demonstrate techniques needed to mold, fold, shape, cut, braid, and carve metal clay to create more than 25 original pieces of beautiful jewelry. With this book there's no need for hammering, sawing, or even a kiln, making it accessible to anyone.
This book features photography, which demonstrates the techniques needed to set with stones, decorate with enamels, create textural effects using engraving and more.|Want to make professional-looking metal jewellery without investing in ...
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher:
ISBN: 0715327658
Category: Jewelry making
Page: 128
View: 619
Helps readers create beautiful and intricate pieces of pure silver jewellery with no silversmithing skills and very few tools and equipment using metal clay. This book features photography, which demonstrates the techniques needed to set with stones, decorate with enamels, create textural effects using engraving and more.
This book features step-by-step photography, which demonstrates the techniques needed to set with stones, decorate with enamels, create textural effects using engraving and more.
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446308987
Category:
Page: 128
View: 150
Create beautiful and intricate pieces of pure silver jewellery with no silversmithing skills and very few tools and equipment using metal clay. This book features step-by-step photography, which demonstrates the techniques needed to set with stones, decorate with enamels, create textural effects using engraving and more.
This book will allow you to master the core techniques and show you how this material could keep you creatively engaged for a lifetime of jewellery making!
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher:
ISBN: 1446302342
Category: Jewelry making
Page: 192
View: 970
Learn how to make professional-lookingmetal jewellery without investing insilversmithing equipment and training.Master the core techniques of metalclay jewellery in an afternoon withdetailed step-by-step photography.A rich and inspirational guidewith tried and tested techniquesexplained in detail and informationon the cutting edge of metalclay creativity and materials.
A section on zero waste--how to conserve and reuse expensive metal clay remnants--completes the how-to section. Packed with more than 500 photographs, this book will give you a clear guide to both the process and end product or effect.
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 1596687134
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 192
View: 551
Experience metal clay like never before. Going far beyond most other metal clay books currently available, Metal Clay for Jewelry Makers covers basics and much more. Inside, you'll explore a range of techniques including forming hinges and beads; working with paper clay; adding gemstones, glass, and ceramics; and syringing, burnishing, texturing, and using patinas. You'll discover stunningly showcased silver and base metal clays perfected in soft clay, paper, and paste forms. Sue also covers the materials that are often used in conjunction with metal clay, including embellishments, stones, and findings. After covering materials, Sue dives right into techniques, from the basics to specific advanced techniques. She explores the use of additional materials as well--applying resin, mounting stones, enameling, engraving and more. A section on zero waste--how to conserve and reuse expensive metal clay remnants--completes the how-to section. Packed with more than 500 photographs, this book will give you a clear guide to both the process and end product or effect. While no projects are in the book, finished projects with tips and techniques are spread throughout and provide inspiration for you to explore metal clay and to use your newfound jewelry-making skills with this innovative material, often dubbed "magical clay."
Shrinkage has been reduced to only 10 to 15 percent in the newer versions of
silver metal clays such as PMC+ and the newest PMC3 formulas. Art Clay shrinks
even less, at 8 to 10 percent. For most jewelry pieces, shrinkage can be ...
Author: Nana Mizushima
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 9780871164780
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 128
View: 487
It's as easy to use as modeling clay. Fire it, and it turns to pure silver: It's metal clay magic! Nana Mizushima's playful approach shows how this fantastic medium allows anyone to craft items in silver. Features more than 25 imaginative, appealing projects for beads, earrings, pendants, bookmarks, pet tags, little boxes, origami, and more.
Create beautiful solid silver charms quickly and easily. This inspirational book shows how to craft intricate pure silver charms with no silver-smithing skills, and very few tools and equipment. The secret? Metal clay.
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher:
ISBN: 1845435087
Category: Charm bracelets
Page: 144
View: 101
Create beautiful solid silver charms quickly and easily. This inspirational book shows how to craft intricate pure silver charms with no silver-smithing skills, and very few tools and equipment. The secret? Metal clay.
Sophisticated enough for artists yet simple enough for beginners,Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelryis the only book that blends metal clay with such a variety of mixed media to make magic. • Follow-up to the best-sellingArt of Metal ...
Author: Sherri Haab
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0823030628
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 143
View: 898
Metal clay starts as clay and turns into metal. Does it get any more magical? Now it does—withMetal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelry. Author Sherri Haab takes this compelling material, today's hottest craft item, to the next level, brilliantly combining it with other media ranging from the timeless to the unexpected. Ribbons, gold leaf, pottery shards, transparent resin, polymer clay, leather, and more are used to create stunning jewelry. Beautiful photography showcases these innovative pieces, and full step-by-step instructions make it easy to re-create them. New formulations of metal clay and newly developed firing techniques are presented clearly so that crafters can achieve professional results. Sophisticated enough for artists yet simple enough for beginners,Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelryis the only book that blends metal clay with such a variety of mixed media to make magic. • Follow-up to the best-sellingArt of Metal Clay—over 35,000 copies sold! • Author has sold more than two million books! • Metal clay is hot with crafters, artists—anyone who wants to try alchemy
AS I leafed through my issue of a national jewelry magazine in the fall of 1995 ,
the pages opened to an article written by Tim McCreight about a material that ...
But this metal clay was something new , revolutionary , and impossibly magical !
Author: Barbara Becker Simon
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 160059025X
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 144
View: 558
When you combine two bestselling topics like metal clay and beading, and then add one of the most talented and respected artists in the business, you’ve got a winning combination. In this unique, comprehensive reference, Barbara Becker Simon treats readers to 22 outstanding metal clay bead projects. An introductory section guides them through all the fundamentals, from forming and joining the clay to firing and finishing. Learn how to add gemstones, glass, and other objects; use molded and carved texture plates; etch photos into a surface; develop rich patinas; and more. From the Porcupine Pearl Bead to a Polygon Box Bead, the projects are both timely and sophisticated.
Beaders will learn how to shape, texture, stamp, cut, and mold easy-to-use metal clay into gorgeous jewelry that they can embellish! This guide to getting started with this amazing material includes 14 projects--custom pendants, findings, rings, and more--with complete step-by-step instructions and full-color photography. First in a series by author, artist, and bead-store owner Irina Miech.
You'll know if your blade isn't sharp, clean, or thin enough if your dry clay links
chip as you cut them. ... with ease, your magical moment is just as the clay slips
from hard leather-hard into bone-dry, or when the links are completely bone-dry.
Author: Kate Mckinnon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781620333259
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 144
View: 976
Beginning with an overview of the properties of metal clay, including safety information and metalsmithing terms, this thorough resource offers detailed procedures for creating a variety of components, settings, findings, attachments, 3-D forms, and textured effects. Each technique is shown with step-by-step photography to make it easy for jewelry makers at the advanced beginner to intermediate levels to learn the art of metal clay, while the enclosed DVD offers the opportunity to see the author's signature style in action. The 12 unique projects within have multiple components made from metal clay, including clasps, chains, and settings; moveable and removable pieces; unusual textures and patinas; and unique construction and engineering. Creative tips on incorporating beads are also included. This handbook offers jewelry artists the design inspiration needed to create gallery-level pieces that are truly wearable art.
I added a gold leaf accent to the horn after firing, to give my silver unicorn an
extra special touch of magic. MATERIALS Template (page 174), card, pencil and
scissors Clay balm Teflon sheet 40g (11⁄2oz) silver clay Mini roller Playing cards
...
Author: Natalia Colman
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 9781781264621
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 176
View: 199
This gorgeous guide to metal clay jewellery, written by designer and author Natalia Colman, shows you how to create 20 beautiful pieces of jewellery from silver, copper and bronze clays. It features rings, pendants, earrings and bracelets and is divided into five animal-themed chapters. The designs include household favourites such as cats and dogs, as well as fashion-forward pieces such as a swallow ring, bull pendant and swan brooch. The book starts with a thorough 'basic techniques' section, while the more advanced and inventive techniques are slotted within each relevant chapter. The book also contains a comprehensive reference section at the back with firing guides for a large range of gemstones. This thorough book will lead a beginner through the process from start to finish, and is innovative enough to inspire experienced jewellery-makers. It will appeal to fans of Natalia's other books, animal-lovers, and anyone keen to create personal finishing-touches.
WW Jewellery and other rich adornments are also prominent on the figurative
sculptures of Nias , where carving in ... ( top ) Javanese people Wonoboyo ,
Klaten region , central Java , Indonesia , Necklace with pendants imitating shells
early 10th century , gold , clay or resin , 24 cm ( diam ) ... Man's ceremonial necklace 19th century , shells , cowry shells , plant fibre , metal , 22 x 19.7 x 2.4
cm Musée du quai ...
Author: Robyn J. Maxwell
Publisher:
ISBN: UCBK:C105391758
Category: Art
Page: 256
View: 798
Provides an evocative overview of the region's ancestral arts and culture, from prehistoric times to the twenty first century. Prolifically illustrated with works of art drawn from museums around the world and the National Gallery of Australia's exceptional collection of Southeast Asian art.
importance : smelting and casting of metals ; effective transportation devices ;
written language ; advances ... had used metals in various ways — for example ,
they pounded , bent , and cut pieces of native copper into jewelry and small tools
; and they collected brightly colored metallic ores , which were valued because
they were thought to contain magical properties . ... I , pages 574–575 . molds —
by first shaping a wax model of the tool to be made , covering it with clay and
drying it ...
Author: Maximilian (Emperor of Mexico)Publish On: 1868
These clay ornaments being slightly relieved produce a picturesque shade . The
light ... with all the wonders of the underground world exhibited in a poetical form
, and through its most precious metal . ... The glowing words of Arab and Spanish
minstrels bear testimony to the beauty of these moments in these magical halls .
As well as all these , clay is a thing of beauty , used for sculpture , pots and jewellery . For me , it is an absolute honour to be using this versatile material ,
whose changes are so magical and extreme . ... With wood and metal , clay is a
material we encounter with such frequency on a daily basis , we tend to take it for
granted .
Author: Lesley Jackson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: UOM:39015048087525
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 208
View: 484
Kate Malone has been acclaimed as one of the most fearless innovators in the field of ceramics. She brings to her work a maverick sensibility, outrageous sense of humor, formidable dexterity, and a penchant for exploring the boundaries between high and low culture. "Kate Malone: A Book of Pots" follows the evolution of her dynamic career, with 321 full-color photographs tracing the continuity of each dazzling creation to the next, while at the same time displaying the full breadth and scope of Malone's renowned imagination and varied output. Malone also reveals many of her innovations, detailing the specific techniques, glazes, and tools used in her work. For anyone interested in the field of ceramics-"Kate Malone: A Book of Pots" is the perfect glimpse into the cutting edge of this dynamic field.
They had metal hammers , spikes , drills , files , rasps , knives , nails , arms and
armor , and screws . ... peasants had almost no contact with metals except for the ornaments in the temples and the jewelry , arms , and armor they saw on ... not
chip , split , or flake the way stones normally did ; they bent and changed shape
like clay - a totally bewildering behavior . ... It was magical . Thus began the long
association of metals with magic . The toolmakers played with the fascinating
pebbles ...
Author: Hugh W. Salzberg
Publisher: Amer Chemical Society
ISBN: STANFORD:36105041092540
Category: Science
Page: 294
View: 112
Tracing the oddities of the history of chemistry. Salzberg examines cultural and political influences on the ideas of chemists. He follows the evolution of chemistry from the Stone Age beginnings of ceramics and metallurgy, through the rise and decline of alchemy, to the culmination of classical chemistry in the late nineteenth century. Chapters one through nine lead from prehistoric technology, through ancient and medieval science to the study of chemicals and reactions that resulted in the sixteenth century birth of scientific chemistry. Chapters ten through fifteen focus on key chemists such as Sala, Boyle, Black, Lavoisier, Dalton, Berzelius, Laurent, and Arrhenius as they developed the ideas that led to classical chemistry and the concepts of molecules, chemical reactions, homology, valence, and molecular formulas and structures, among others. Twenty illustrations enhance the text. Also included are six timelines and two maps to help readers understand the influences of early history on chemistry.
pathetic ritual and we prefer to reserve this to another work which is to be
devoted to a comparison of magical and religious rites . Meanwhile we may
merely suggest , as a general thesis , that sacrifice does not form in magic , as it
does in religion , a tightly knit class of highly specialized rites . ... Magicians
prepare images from paste , clay , wax , honey , plaster , metal or papier mâché ,
from papyrus or parchment , from sand or wood . ... He makes jewellery , The
Elements of Magic 53.
Did he collect and string rocks and shells that had natural perforations because
he thought they were beautiful or did he wear them because he thought they
possessed magical powers ? Whatever ... With the use of valuable metals and
stones , jewelry became one of the dominant symbols of wealth . ... Plastic , clay ,
and nonprecious metals , while more permanent , are still inexpensive and
expendable .
