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MAKING Your Own Jewelry NEW! Hardback Book

Creative Designs To Make and Wear by Wendy Haig Milne

Making Your Own Jewelry is packed with ideas for attractive, innovative and often surprisingly inexpensive jewelry to make at home.

It features over 20 practical and original projects for earrings, brooches, bangles, necklaces and matching jewelry sets in a wide variety of styles and materials. These range from high-fashion, 'chunky' designs such as curtain ring earrings to a more classically ornate crystal necklace.

Readymade jewelry components such as beads, semi-precious stones, pearls and shells, together with more unusual materials such as fabric, modelling materials and plastics, all find their place among the stunning designs.

As the author explains, attractive jewelry can be made using everyday 'found' objects including wire links, bobbins or hat pins. Beautifully illustrated throughout with specially commissioned color photographs and step-by-step illustrations, the projects are presented clearly in easy-to-follow sequences which explain the basic jewelry techniques required to create the designs presented here.


In her introduction, Milne differentiates between fine jewelry (using gold, silver, or precious stones) and the craft field. Although the projects here clearly fall into the craft category, an appealing array of necklaces, bracelets, and earrings are presented, accompanied by delicately rendered illustrations, crisp color photographs, and Milne's easy-to-follow instructions. Projects are within easy reach of the beginner; many consist of assembling beads with silver or copper wire into sets of jewelry for both casual and more formal outings. Materials are readily available from craft or hardware stores, but for the more challenging designs, such as metal brooches with intricate cut patterns, a few tools will need to be purchased from specialist suppliers.