Beading Vintage-style Jewelry
Title | Beading Vintage-style Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Marty Stevens-Heebner |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781600590702 |
Vintage style is now--and with its rich colors and classic designs, timeless romanticism and old-world elegance, it’s the look that every jewelry maker and wearer craves. These 50 eye-catching and wide-ranging beaded projects show exactly why, from dangling cloisonn� beads on a rich, velvet ribbon choker to glittering blue and green crystals paired with silver filigree in a stunning necklace-and-earring combo. Even those who have never strung a bead or looped a wire before can make these in no time, thanks to the authors’ easy-to-follow guidance and clever ideas for giving old pieces a chic makeover. Helpful tips, variations, and historical tidbits are scattered throughout, providing additional insight.
Vintage-Style Beaded Jewelry
Title | Vintage-Style Beaded Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell |
Publisher | CICO Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Beadwork |
ISBN | 9781907563102 |
Inspired by the best of a century's designs, Vintage-Style Beaded Jewelry shows you how to create 35 delightful designs for your very own modern heirlooms. Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell uses a range of widely available materials to create jewelry for any event, including ideas to wear every day, such as a simple button necklace, and occasion pieces, such as a wedding tiara embellished with beads and paper rosebuds. Despite their glamour, many of Deborah's projects are surprisingly inexpensive; she shows how to make old china into cameo brooches, how to reuse jewels for a glistening two-strand bracelet, and how to revive a beloved but broken necklace as a stunning pearl necklace. Ideal as a gift, many of the bracelets, necklaces, brooches, and earrings can be created in an afternoon. With tips on how to work with found objects, Deborah shows how to transform favorite but damaged costume jewelry and thrift store finds into precious pieces that can be treasured forever. Clear step-by-step artworks and the use of simple techniques such as wiring, beading, and netting mean that even the beginner can produce stunning results. * 35 original projects to create modern heirlooms for yourself or to give as gifts. * Projects include delicate drop earrings, elegant brooches, and classic pendant necklaces. * Ingenious ideas on reusing old junk and thrift buys.
Vintage-Style Beaded Jewelry
Title | Vintage-Style Beaded Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell |
Publisher | CIMA Publishing |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Beadwork |
ISBN | 9781903116876 |
Clear step-by-step photos and easy-to master techniques such as wiring, beading, and netting, ensure that even beginners can produce these stunning, delicate, and charming keepsakes.
French-Inspired Jewelry
Title | French-Inspired Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Kaari Meng |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781600590962 |
Offers instructions for creating fifty French-inspired jewelry projects using vintage beads and other notions.
Miriam Haskell Jewelry
Title | Miriam Haskell Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Gordon |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Costume jewelry |
ISBN | 9780764333316 |
Miriam Haskell began selling beautiful costume jewelry in 1926, and her company continues to the present. The jewelry that bears her name is highly sought after and the prices keep spiraling up. Claims abound that "this is a Miriam Haskell," but is it a Miriam Haskell? This important new book gives collectors the key information to make intelligent buying decisions. It provides specific details on the art, design, style, materials, construction, and signatures, all vital to the identification and dating of Haskell jewelry. It also dispels many of the myths that allow "wanna-bes" and fakes to flourish. Over 600 beautiful color photographs display the most extensive collection of Haskell jewelry ever brought together. The jewelry is categorized by designer, specifying notable eras. The text provides notations on innovations, style preferences, and in-depth descriptions pointing to key Haskell identifiers. Readers, from casual admirers to serious collectors and dealers, will find in this comprehensive book the essential information and breathtaking pictures they seek.
The Napier Co
Title | The Napier Co PDF eBook |
Author | Melinda L. Lewis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1011 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Costume jewelry |
ISBN | 9780974374062 |
The Napier Jewelry book is a visual encyclopedia of Napier Costume Jewelry. It tells the heretofore untold and phenomenal story of The Napier Co. inception, development, flowering, and ultimate success. It chronicles the history of its management, manufacturing, marketing, and most importantly, the unparalleled beauty of Napier fashion jewelry. With approximately 4000 pictures of Napier jewelry history and over 250,000 words of text and descriptions, you will be taken step-by-step, decade by decade, through the development of the Napier style. As a collector, you will learn to recognize the findings, materials, and designs to appropriately circa-date the Napier jewelry in which you are investing. As a lover of vintage costume jewelry, you will enjoy the drama and excitement of the trials, tribulations, and breakthroughs at each stage of the Napier journey. In the end, you will have a deep and lasting appreciation of the romantic story infused into the metal, gemstones, crystals, cabochons, and elegance of each piece of Napier jewelry that you own or are considering owning
Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry
Title | Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Hemachandra |
Publisher | Lark Books (NC) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | CRAFTS & HOBBIES |
ISBN | 9781454703167 |
"This beautiful and inspiring book gathers photographs of 500 of the most breathtaking beaded jewelry designs created in recent years. The techniques the beaders employ are as varied as the aesthetic sensibilities they bring to their gorgeous creations and include beadweaving in every stitch imaginable, embroidery, quilling, loom weaving, and kumihimo braiding, as well as basic stringing, simple wirework, and fine metalwork. Sometimes, a bead maker's focal piece simply is set in a straightforward, unpretentious, and beautiful design. Virtually all of the world's most famous beaders who make jewelry have pieces included -- including Carol Wilcox Wells, Diane Fitzgerald, Marcia DeCoster, Jamie Cloud Eakin, Huib Petersen, Paulette Baron, Sabine Lippert, Sherry Serafini, Margie Deeb, Maggie Meister, Melanie Potter, Ann Tevepaugh Mitchell, Laura McCabe, Suzanne Golden, Jean Campbell, Rachel Nelson-Smith, Eva Dobos, and many more -- but we also present work from many artists who have never been published before. All together, this extensive, international, and fabulous survey of 500 pieces includes work from nearly 300 artists from 30 countries and reveals the striking vision and ambition of today's beading community. Every beader, jeweler, and crafter will want Showcase 500 beaded jewelry in their collection"--