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:
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Step-by-step photography for all projects and techniques
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Tips for mixing metals with copper to create one-of-a-kind designs
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An extensive technique section that includes distressing copper, simple metalwork, cold joins, and creating unique wire components
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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
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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
