Complete Starter Guide to Wire Wrapping Pendants: Essential Techniques, Wirework Skills, Stone Setting Methods, and Step-by-Step Jewelry Projects for Beginners (Fox Chapel Publishing)

The Complete Starter Guide to Wire Wrapping Pendants covers everything jewelry makers need to know to create sellable, wire-wrapped jewelry. While the primary reader is one interested in the wrapping techniques with a polished stone or cabochon as the focal part of the piece, the techniques are equally appealing to crafters whose do their own resin casting, lapidary work, or polymer clay. The wire-wrapping techniques taught should be seen as a finishing steps for both non-jewelry artists and artists alike with the pendants and cabochons at the heart of the finished designs.Include will be step-by-step projects as well as a library of easy, quick wire designs that can be expanded into more advanced works.Techniques to create unique designsMultiple options for each area of the designsThree main wire techniques used in focal bead workSingle wire bends, multiple, individual wire wrapsHow beads, bells, and charms can be incorporated into the wire workRange of projects from very simple to an entry level advanced designStep-by-step hands-on photos for both how to execute thetechnique and how to work a finished projectLots of extra photos of wire-wrapped cabochons as inspirational ideas for how the technique works within a design Read more