Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners

by Jinks McGrath

This is a complete course in designing and making jewellery. Carefully structured tutorials guide you through every stage of the process, revealing how to translate inspired ideas into workable, wearable designs, and you'll find professional advice on presenting and selling your work. Learn about tools, equipment and safe working practices; how to build an inspirations file; select suitable materials and transfer your designs; work with precious and semi-precious stones, metals, glass, plastic, resin and wood. Clear, step-by-step photographs demonstrate all the techniques you will need, at-a-glance panels explain the effect that different techniques have on a variety of metals, and practical exercises provide guidance in tricky skills - with ideas for trying these out on inexpensive substitutes before using your chosen materials.

Genres: Jewellery, Crafts, Nonfiction

144 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Mcguire Diamonds · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Book is an outstanding guide for anyone interested in the art of jewelry creation. The book's clear and comprehensive approach demystifies intricate techniques, making them accessible to novices and enhancing the skills of those with some experience. With step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations, it empowers readers to confidently craft their own beautiful pieces.

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[Miss Highness · Rating 5 out of 5]

"An easy-to-read book, with all the necessary details. This is very useful if you want to gain some knowledge regarding the making of Jewellery. Overall this is a very good book, worth giving time to. We are currently running our own Artificial Jewellery brand in India named MissHighness.com, visit if you need any type of Artificial Jewellery.
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[Fitsum Getachew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am thinking of making jewelries and i hope this book will help a lot, Therefore i am going to read it.