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Chain Maille
The experts at Jewelry Making Daily present this collection of chain maille jewelry instructions, plus bonus guide to help you learn the ins and outs of chainmaille. In jewelry making we often use jump rings to connect other parts, securing a clasp to a necklace or charms to a bracelet; but you can also make jewelry with nothing but jump rings, too. The jewelry making technique of chain maille combines jump rings to create chains, knots, necklaces, bracelets and earrings, and can be as simple or complex as you desire.
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Cold Connection Jewelry
Cold connections are hot, hot, hot! In the jewelry world, the term "cold connections" usually describes mechanical joining techniques that are used to fasten together parts that cannot be soldered (which is a "hot" connection). This doesn't mean, however, that cold connection jewelry is just an alternative for jewelry artists who don't want to use a torch. With this free eBook, you'll expand your knowledge of the various methods, hot or cold, when it comes to constructing jewelry.
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Copyright 101 for Jewelry Artists
How Much Do You Know About Copyright? Jewelry Making Daily and the staff at Interweave have released a free eBook Know Your Rights: Copyright 101 for Jewelry Artists to help raise awareness of the issues surrounding copyright and give credit to the talented writers, designers, artists, photographers, and innovators who work with us to share their products and ideas with our readers. This guide to the basics of copyright is for anyone and everyone: designers and makers, crafters, retailers, library staff, educators, and more.
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Electroforming
Electroforming (also called electroplating) lets you take organic objects and coat them with a layer of real metal allowing you to use complex, natural shapes in your metal jewelry without difficult fabrication. Anything you can find in nature can be incorporated in your jewelry: from delicate seed pods to acorns to sea shells. Join Denise Peck, editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry and senior editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, in a free video tutorial on what you need to get started electroforming jewelry; the equipment and supplies for copper plating.
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Enameling
Enamel is one of the most versatile sources of pure, luscious color. Powdered glass can be applied with great precision onto a variety of jewelry metals, including silver, gold, and copper. What makes enameling so versatile is the ability to switch from a broad brush to adding minute details, making each and every piece truly unique. In addition to showing you how to enamel, you will also discover helpful tips and techniques from experts. Download your free eBook to begin your own enameling adventure today!
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Gemstones
These colored stones are prized not only for their colors but often for their fascinating natural patterns that make each cut stone unique. Although these intriguing gems are sometimes referred to by the old trade term "semi-precious stones," there is really nothing "semi" about their value at all. Celebrate the wonderful power of gemstones with the experts at Jewelry Making Daily in this free eBook full of gemstone information and you'll agree that many of these colored gems are more beautiful than the often recited big three: ruby, emerald, and sapphire.
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Glass Bead Making
Discover how to make glass beads that mimic the juicy, plump look of your favorite fruit with Cindy Martin's "Grapes of Glass." Or make your jewelry come alive with the colors of spring, with a birdhouse lampworked bead, complete with vines and vibrantly colored accents. Have you ever wondered how to get designs inside a bead? Follow along with Lauri Copeland for a step-by-step demonstration on lampworking flower designs into glass beads. Once you get started creating lampwork beads, there is no turning back from this addicting and exciting medium.
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Jewelry Business
Learn how to sell jewelry and improve your home-based jewelry business with expert tips from successful jewelry business owners in this free eBook. Selling jewelry should be enjoyable as well as profitable. Whether you want to start a jewelry business and need tips on how to price jewelry effectively and fairly, or have been selling jewelry for years, this free eBook is an essential guide. Make money selling handmade jewelry online with tips on maintaining a strong social media presence and harnessing the power of the Web to actively promote your jewelry selling business.
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Jewelry Design
Anyone can combine raw materials and jewelry-making techniques to create jewelry, but the ability to take an idea to paper and create a rendering of your envisioned piece takes you from jewelry maker to jewelry designer. Not sure where to start? Get the scoop on your basic drawing and design tools. Not sure what to sketch? Explore form and texture in metal in detail, and learn to take one of your ideas to create multiple variations of your design.
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Jewelry Making Techniques
Nothing is as rewarding as learning how to make your own jewelry and being able to wear it with pride or make it the most personal of gifts. Nothing expresses your own style and personality like a piece of original artisan jewelry that you designed and made yourself. You'll get jewelry making ideas for all of the DIY jewelry projects you've been eager to get your hands on. You'll find a surprisingly broad range of jewelry techniques, styles, materials, and finished pieces to get you started making your own metal jewelry or introduce you to new ways of approaching design.
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Jewelry Making Tools
Don’t know the difference between a bench block, a mandrel and an anvil? We’ll clue you in. When do you use a ball peen hammer, a planishing hammer, and a chasing hammer? We’ll let you know – and tell you why one pro calls a wellformed planishing hammer his favorite jewelry tool of all. You'll find this illustrated eBook a valuable reference if you're just venturing into jewelry metalsmithing, and full of interesting comments from established jewelers even if you're one yourself. From tips for setting up your jeweler's bench to selecting top of the line jewelry tools for forming, cutting, soldering, and finishing, this jewelry equipment guide has you covered.
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Lapidary
A gemstone is the perfect medium for a jewelry artist to display color and light—not to mention what a fashion statement it can make. But good gemstones do not grow on trees. By definition, a gemstone is a stone that is beautiful, rare, and durable. For a lapidary jewelry artist, finding the perfect lapidary rough and figuring out the best rock cutting and polishing process is a whole adventure. The experts at Jewelry Making Daily are excited to introduce this free eBook, dedicated to the amazing lapidary experience, from hunting to cutting and setting gems.
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Metal Clay
In this fabulous e-book, 4 Free Metal Clay Jewelry Projects: Make Jewelry with Precious Metal Clay, Art Clay and Other Metal Clays, you will find three metal clay jewelry making projects that demonstrate how to combine different metal clays, how to work with metal clay and wire wrapping, how to make earrings, pins, and rings, and how to use silver, copper, bronze, and steel metal clays. You can make these projects just as shown, or apply what you learn from the illustrated step-by-step instructions to create stunning metal clay jewelry designs of your own.
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Metalsmithing
In this informative free metalsmithing instructional video, Jewelry Making Daily goldsmith Helen Driggs demonstrates working with some of the most basic jewelry making tools used in shaping metal into rings, bracelets, neckpieces and more. See how to form metal around a mandrel, how to use dapping punches with dapping blocks to create domed or hemispheric forms, and how to use those techniques to master the art of making metal jewelry.
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Metal Stamping
Whether you're new to metal stamping or just need stamping ideas, this free video tutorial is sure to teach you something. If you're stamping metal for the first time, you'll discover the importance of practice and proper positioning, as well as the essential metal stamping tools needed to get started. Metal stamping requires some hardware, but once you've acquired your stamping tools, they'll last you years. Once you've acquired the necessary metal stamping tools: metal stamps, hammers, a steel or aluminum block, and any other desired supplies, you're ready to begin! Helen explains the metal stamping process from selecting your custom stamps for unique designs to proper position and techniques for creating metal letter stamps.
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Micro Torch
Whether you're new to torch work or not, this free video tutorial is sure to teach you something. If you are using a micro torch for the first time, you'll discover how convenient this small, portable torch is. If you've never used any kind of torch, you'll learn how to get started with a micro torch plus discover the basics of annealing and fusing – and then you'll learn the simple technique of how to fuse wire links, too. Denise explains the entire process of fusing wire links, from how to form the links to why you want to be sure to create a straight edge. She also shows you how to fill the butane torch using a canister of butane fuel. Most micro torches have a burn time of about 30 minutes, so if starts to take noticeably longer to heat the wire links, refill the torch. Place the first of your wire links on the solderite board and light your butane micro torch.
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Mixed-Media Jewelry
Discover free mixed-media jewelry designs using simple techniques and fabulous materials to get you started creating jewelry pieces that are memorable, refreshing, and fun. Turn special items you've been saving as keepsakes into pieces of incredible art. This free eBook will show you what mixed media is all about, and we bet you fall in love. Follow step-by-step projects to learn how to use your creativity to make a personal statement through something you can wear. Create jewelry that means even more by transforming mementos into masterpieces with these tips and techniques.
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Polymer Clay
Inside this instructional eBook, you'll find projects that will show you how to take advantage of the painterly qualities of polymer clay to make a checkerboard pattern, a jellyroll pattern, and a graduated color blend. You'll find out how to decorate the surfaces of your polymer clay beads with textures and acrylic paints. Take charge of your own creations and create one-of-a-kind jewelry elements using silver + polymer clay. Making jewelry with versatile polymer clay opens up a world of creative possibilities using common tools and household equipment. With little more than a sharp knife, some sandpaper, a pasta machine, and a toaster oven, you can make polymer clay jewelry that is as bold or as delicate as you like.
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Resin Jewelry
Resin is a great way to protect and preserve delicate objects, such as fabric and paper, and keep them dry and safe from scratching or chipping. Embedding focal elements in resin opens up a world of possibilities for found object and memento resin jewelry. Each of the resin jewelry projects in this free eBook use a premade bezel, but if you are comfortable doing it, you can create your own bezels and other adaptations as needed. Create each project step by step, or use these resin jewelry ideas to design your own custom handmade resin jewelry. Download your free eBook to get started exploring resin jewelry making!
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Silver Jewelry
Improve your skills as a jewelry-making silversmith while you create an outstanding silver pendant, ring, pin, and a bonus sterling silver findings project, an S-hook clasp. With silver sheet, silver jewelry findings, silversmithing tools, and basic silver jewelry supplies, you’ll be sure to hone your silversmithing skills as you re-create outstanding handmade silver jewelry. Improve your skills as a jewelry making silversmith when you download this free eBook.
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Soldering Jewelry
Whether you are experienced or new to making your own jewelry, this introductory eBook about silver soldering and soldering copper jewelry is full of essential basics you will use again and again throughout your jewelry-making lifetime. There are a wide variety of jewelry soldering supplies and tools to choose from. Soldering jewelry involves adhering one piece or part of metal to another. Solder and flux are used to securely adhere metal pieces to one another. Learn how to solder jewelry and improve your jewelry making skills with expert tips in this free eBook from the experts at Jewelry Making Daily. Soldering is a "gateway" jewelry making technique that will let you take your jewelry designs to a whole new level.
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Steampunk Jewelry
"What is Steampunk?", you ask. Steampunk gets its name from an era during which steam power was used, during the Victorian 1800s. It was a romantic time full of arts and beauty but also full of discovery and new technology, like the invention of steam power. In What Is Steampunk Design: 3 FREE Steampunk Projects Demonstrating How to Make Steampunk Jewelry, you’ll find inspiring ways to blend these Steampunk elements using many different jewelry-making techniques, including wire wrapping, cold connections, resin, and soldering.
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Stone Cutting
This free downloadable eBook can help you take your stone cutting skills to an entirely new level. You will learn how a piece of patterned stone containing ruby mixed with other materials progresses from gem rough to finished cabochon. Whether you intend to set a stone in jewelry or display it proudly on a shelf, and whether the lapidary rough is transparent to opaque, all the same or elaborately patterned, the first question to ask is: what’s the best way to cut this stone? All of the answers you need are here at your fingertips, thanks to Jewelry Making Daily. Download this free eBook now and learn five different approaches to gem cutting that will help you take advantage of all kinds of gemstones.
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Stone Setting
You'll find this detailed eBook a valuable reference if you're new to setting stones; and full of inspiration and new ideas even if you've already mastered the art of stone setting. From simple bezel setting to techniques for setting faceted stones and setting gemstones with unusual shapes, we have you covered. Once you’ve learned how to form and assemble metal to create the jewelry piece you’ve envisioned, the next jewelry making skill you need to master is stone setting. How do you add a faceted stone or cabochon gem to your designs? There are many ways to set stones, and each gem and the piece of jewelry it will be mounted in will present a unique fabrication challenge.
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Wire Jewelry Making
This free downloadable wire jewelry tutorial walks you through wire wrapping techniques and informative wire wrapping instructions that will have you making wire jewelry in no time. Whether you're a seasoned expert or new to wire jewelry patterns, this eBook is a timeless guide. Also included are complete material lists and the wire working tools you'll need to start your wire jewelry design. Download these 5 free wire jewelry projects to explore all these versatile techniques. This free eBook comes with complete step by step wire jewelry instructions as well as material and tool lists. Once you try these great wire jewelry designs, you’ll be hooked.
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