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: 779
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: 710
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.
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: 757
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."
Equipment needed is minimal and you will probably have most of the simple tools in your home already. This book concentrates on silver clay which is the easiest kind to use because it can be fired without a kiln.
Author: Sue Heaser
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 9781446381267
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 128
View: 845
Make professional-looking metal jewellery and accessories without investing in silversmithing tools, equipment and training, with this essential guide to working with precious metal clay. Metal clay is a magical material: real metal in clay form that can be modelled and then fired to turn it into pure metal. It has taken the crafting world by storm in the past 20 years and its versatility and accessibility means it is used by professional jewellery makers and hobbyists alike. Metal clay is available in many different types – silver, copper, bronze and even steel. It can be sculpted, modelled, moulded, rolled into sheets, cut into shapes, woven, braided and carved to produce an endless array of forms and effects. Equipment needed is minimal and you will probably have most of the simple tools in your home already. This book concentrates on silver clay which is the easiest kind to use because it can be fired without a kiln. After drying the clay, it is fired using either a small blow torch, a gas hob, or camping gas and in five minutes or less the clay becomes pure 999 silver that can be hallmarked. This book will show you how to master all the basic techniques of working with metal clay while later chapters cover more advanced techniques. Twenty gorgeous projects are shown in detail with clear step-by-step photographs. There are pendants, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, charms, brooches, beads, cufflinks and rings and many of the projects give alternative ideas for developing your skills. Embellishment techniques are shown in detail from setting stones and gilding to enamelling with resin, adding inlay, engraving, and oxidising for luscious colours. Whatever your skill level and whatever your craft style you will find this a rich and inspiring guide with tried-and-tested techniques explained in detail, as well as the cutting edge of metal clay creativity and materials. A few projects that need kiln firing are given at the end of the book to show what can be achieved if you decide to go further with this fabulous material. Author Sue Heaser is a prolific crafter who has written over 18 books on the subjects of jewellery making, polymer clay, metal clay and miniatures. Her expert guidance will give even the beginner the confidence and the inspiration to start a love affair with metal clay and all its creative possibilities.
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: 908
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.
Roll it, sculpt it, mold it, stamp it... then bake it in the oven and watch as clay turns into metal. Metal clay really is magical, and Metal Clay Magic shows you how to use that magic to make twenty beautiful jewelry projects.
Author: Nana V. Mizushima
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780871162205
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 128
View: 476
This book includes step-by-step instructions for rolling, stamping, finishing and combining metal clay with other materials. More than 25 projects.
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: 675
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.
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: 913
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.
For most jewelry pieces, shrinkage can be advantageous when working with design details. Consider shrinkage when adding other objects such as fine-silver wire, CZs, or other natural gems. The metal clay will shrink around the added ...
Author: Nana Mizushima
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 9780871164780
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 128
View: 236
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.
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 ... 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: 886
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.
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: 491
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
You'll know if your blade isn't sharp, clean, or thin enough if your dry clay links chip as you cut them. ... 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: 694
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.
And now metal clay makes it possible to create beautiful jewelry with rich, lasting color right in your own home or studio. The first time you fire a piece of metal clay and watch the silver emerge is a magical moment.
Author: Pam East
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 9780871164650
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 96
View: 249
This book will appeal to artisans of all levels. A thorough introductory section helps readers prepare their workspace with information on tools, materials, and basic techniques for metal clay and enameling. Jewelry projects include earrings, pendants, pins, beads, and a ring. Easy-to-follow instructions are illustrated with clear, detailed photographs.
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 ...
Author: Natalia Colman
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 9781781264621
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 176
View: 948
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.
... I have always considered it a privilege to introduce this magical material to people, especially those who think they are not creative. I hope people reading this book will discover their creativity using the medium of metal clay.
Author: Julia Rai
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 9781785002656
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 300
View: 788
Silver metal clay is an accessible, easy to use material that allows unique, hallmark-quality jewellery to be made at home with simple tools. This practical book introduces the various forms of silver metal clay and their relative merits. Packed with images, seventeen step-by-step projects and with full instruction and advice, Making Metal Clay Jewellery is an invaluable resource for all jewellers who want to learn and develop their skills with this versatile material. Includes: an introduction to the simple tools needed to work with metal clay, avoiding expensive equipment; full instruction to every stage of the process, with seventeen step-by-step tutorials; techniques including making beads, rings, earrings and pendants, setting stones, and working with glass and metal clay; covers various types of embellishment, as well as using textures, stencils and cutters to create jewellery. Each chapter features a troubleshooting section advising on how to avoid mistakes or rectify problems. A practical book on creating unique jewellery at home with this versatile and exciting medium, this will be an invaluable resource for all jewellers who want to learn and develop their skills. Superbly illustrated with 175 colour photographs.
And now metal clay makes it possible to create beautiful jewelry with rich, lasting color right in your own home or studio. The first time you fire a piece of metal clay and watch the silver emerge is a magical moment.
Author: Irina Miech
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780871162588
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 111
View: 775
Beaders will love learning how to create their own silver jewelry components in this third book by Irina Miech, author of Metal Clay for Beaders and More Metal Clay for Beaders. Get step-by-step instruction in metal clay, plus learn complementary techniques such as enameling and keum boo (applying gold foil). Full beading instructions included. Projects for all skill levels, plus bonus variations!
Almost all our knowledge about Jewish magical activity in antiquity and the early Islamic period stems from surviving texts. Material findings attest to the use of precious stones and magic jewelry as well as metal and clay amulets in ...
Author: Yuval Harari
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814336311
Category: Religion
Page: 604
View: 534
“Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts?” Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness, the conflict with the culture it reflects, and the scientific study of both. The first part of the book analyzes the essence of magic in general and Jewish magic in particular. The book begins with theories addressing the relationship of magic and religion in fields like comparative study of religion, sociology of religion, history, and cultural anthropology, and considers the implications of the paradigm shift in the interdisciplinary understanding of magic for the study of Jewish magic. The second part of the book focuses on Jewish magic culture in late antiquity and in the early Islamic period. This section highlights the artifacts left behind by the magic practitioners—amulets, bowls, precious stones, and human skulls—as well as manuals that include hundreds of recipes. Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah also reports on the culture that is reflected in the magic evidence from the perspective of external non-magic contemporary Jewish sources. Issues of magic and religion, magical mysticism, and magic and social power are dealt with in length in this thorough investigation. Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.
... brush over it with a wire bristle brush, exposing the silver and making the piece shine. This is a magical step in the process—your clay is now metal. 34. Be careful to avoid brushing over the stone here,. 108 precious metal clay.
Author: J. Devlin Barrick
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811741798
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Page: 128
View: 942
Illustrated instructions on using wire, beads, crystals, precious metal clay, cabochons, rivets, and other materials to create unique jewelry. Includes 15 projects for making beautiful necklaces, bracelets, rings, pins, and earrings. Expert instruction from master jeweler Carolyn Yohn McManus.
Rub it onto the clay Aromatherapy beads on your jewelry. You can use different oils for different outcomes. Thieves/On Guard Blends boost immune systems and help to kills germs and viruses. Eucalyptus oil will help to open airways and ...
