Contemporary Copper Jewelry with DVD: Step-by-Step Techniques and Projects

Create contemporary copper jewelry as Sharilyn Miller, the best-selling author of Bead on a Wire, teaches you how to make beautifully designed and afforable pieces, from bracelets and necklaces to earrings and pins. Copper offers jewelry makers a stylish, yet inexpensive alternative to silver, and is attractive, easy to work with, and very accessible.

Inside you will find:

• Step-by-step photography for all projects and techniques
• Tips for mixing metals with copper to create one-of-a-kind designs
• An extensive technique section that includes distressing copper, simple metalwork, cold joins, and creating unique wire components
• 22 projects from a collection of top jewelry artists, including Rachel Nelson-Smith, Dale "Couger" Armstrong, Eugenia Chan, and Richard Salley, that are sure to inspire wire and metal jewelry enthusiasts
• an instructional DVD with Sharilyn covering all the basics of wireworking to offer a solid foundation to create the projects in Contemporary Copper Jewelry with DVD

Sharilyn Miller has published four books including Stamp, The Stamp Artist's Project Book and the best-selling Bead on a Wire and has been published in many jewelry magazines. She was the editor of Somerset Studio, and the launch of Belle Armoire and Art Doll Quarterly. Sharilyn lives in the mountains of Idyllwild, California.

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