- Everyone can make stylish contemporary jewelry with ease!
- This guide holds the key: simply take widely available manufactured metal parts (hollow tubes, solid rods, precut perforated sheets) and arrange them in repeating patterns that develop into complex designs.
- The techniques—filing, drilling, piercing, cold connecting, soldering—are simple, and step-by-step photos capture every essential stage of the construction process.
- Today’s most innovative designers, including Christine Dhein, Kristin Lora, and Amy Tavern, contribute to the 25 projects, and the variety of metals and colors showcased in their pieces yield stunning results.
- From Victoria Cho’s very kinetic “Guitar String Stickpin” to Joanna Gollberg’s magnificent cerulean and gold necklace, it’s clear the modular possibilities are endless!
- Turn jumprings, tubes and rods, washers and other manufactured metal supplies into stylish jewelry.
- To make these chic, contemporary projects, you'll be able to purchase a number of readymade materials and then enjoy altering and assembling them in creative and exciting ways.
- Learn how to achieve spectacular results using different techniques like drilling and soldering.
- Then put your own personal stamp on exquisitely hammered Chain Link Earrings, an Orbit Cuff with coppery discs that almost seem to be floating, the Galaxy Necklace featuring pre-punched square metal shapes, the City Lights
- Stick Pin which has unusual juxtapositions of tubes and guitar strings--and many more.
Hardcover, full color, 128 pages
Book size: 10-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches
Level: Beginner to advanced
Book"Modern Jewelry from Modular Parts: Easy Projects Using Readymade Components" by Marthe Le Van
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