A Budget-Minded Wire Choice Penny-pinchers fear not--there’s an affordable solution to high prices that’s often overlooked or simply used as scrap metal by wire artists: craft wire. Craft wire usually has a copper core (varieties are also available with tin, bronze, or nickel), so it’s...
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One of the things I love most about jewelry is the diversity it affords (no pun intended!). Sure, I drool over the Tiffany’s catalogs, and gawk at the windows in the Diamond District when I’m in New York City. But my favorite pieces of jewelry contain no gold and no precious stones. Instead...
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Win a $500 shopping spree! I'm excited to announce two new free jewelry newsletters! Jewelry Artist's Flashcard will cover jewelry-making techniques like cold joins, setting, soldering, polishing, or mixing metals, while Colored Stone's GemMail will focus on the gemstone industry. Each newsletter...
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Everything old is new again. When I was in my teens, platform shoes came into fashion. Remember Elton John on his tall elevator boots? My mother was quick to point out that she’d worn platform shoes all through the 1930s and 1940s. Of course, I was not in a position to recall the 1930s or 1940s...
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Why I Love Hammering If you work with wire beyond an occasional wrapped loop, you'll probably end up hammering it at some point. Hammering wire hardens it, making it stronger and harder. You can also get some cool effects with flattened wire. I love hammering because it's is loud and noisy--and...
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Wireworking Wire is a versatile jewelry design element that may be used to connect chain or beaded links, to embellish beads, to hang pendants, or create a number of elements like head pins, eye pins, ear wires, bails, pin backs, ring shanks, clasps, or just about anything you can imagine! Wire comes...
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Welcoming a New Jewelry Designer A few weeks ago, I had an email from a new jewelry designer. She enjoys working on projects like Leslee Frumin's right-angle weave necklace, Puttin' on the Ritz. (Her version is pictured at left; instructions are in Beadwork February/March 2007 ). She also enjoys...
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Oh, Those O-Rings! When was the last time you shopped in a hardware store for your jewelry components? (It's been a couple of months for me, personally.) This week's featured project from the editors of Step by Step Wire Jewelry uses three sizes of purple rubber rings. Have you ever used these...
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Make Your Own Beads with Polymer Clay and Rubber Stamps Isn't it funny how you sometimes start out in one craft and end up going back to it years later? I used to be into rubber stamping--on paper--so this Rubber Stamping Polymer Clay Beads project from Making Polymer Clay Beads by Carol Blackburn...
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Beading Daily contributing editor Sandi Wiseheart offers some advice about making wire loops: Even though it may be invisible, the type of string, wire, thread, or cord you choose to make your jewelry is critical to the overall success of the piece. Heavy beads require heavy-duty stringing material that...
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