Creating Jewellery in Wood

Sarah King

Fil Rouge Press

Take your jewelry design beyond metal! <ul>
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Comprehensive guide to creating wooden jewelry, with techniques presented by progressive skill learning</li> <li>
14 step-by-step jewelry projects to create, each fresh and modern, including rings, necklaces, pendants, and pins</li> <li>
Learn woodworking skills and practice jointing, turning, steaming, polishing, staining, painting, beveling, inlaying, and more</li> <li>
Learn how to shape, connect, and treat wood, as well as the necessary tools and materials for each technique</li> <li>
Combine wood with other media, from silver to silicon, and learn how to ebonize and electroform wood</li> <li>
Four special profiles feature talented guests Inni Parnanen, Terhi Tolvanen, Beppe Kessler, and Lina Peterson</li> </ul>
This first-ever comprehensive guide to creating wooden jewelry teaches woodworking skills through a series of 24 techniques and beautiful, accessible projects. Creating Wooden Jewelry will help you discover new perspectives for your art! Today there are fresh, modern ways to create stand-out pieces using one of the most popular alternatives to pricier metal: wood! Wood is an accessible and affordable medium that welcomes creative experimentation and produces highly unique and beautiful finished pieces. Inside Creating Wooden Jewelry, renowned artist jeweler Sarah King shows any jewelry maker how to expand your range of techniques and combine wood with other media, from silver to silicon. Staring with basic techniques and moving on to advanced, you'll learn skills that include jointing, turning, steaming, polishing, staining, painting, beveling, inlaying, and working with different woods. You'll complete 14 projects with step-by-step instructions and photography while learning how to shape, connect, and treat wood, as well as other processes like electroforming and ebonizing. Author Sarah King works with materials, form, and structure to make sculptural, contemporary, and feminine jewelry. Her work has been sold in department stores, design stores, boutiques, and galleries, including Barney's, Liberty of London, The Conran Shop, and more. She has won many awards, such as the Association of Contemporary Jewelry Prize, and is one of only 50 international contemporary jewelers invited to show at the LOOT exhibition at the New York Museum of Arts and Design. With Creating Wooden Jewelry, you'll learn from one of the best to understand everything you need to know to create stunning wooden jewelry, practice creating your own beautiful pieces, and learn about the work of talented guests Inni Parnanen, Terhi Tolvanen, Beppe Kessler, and Lina Peterson. You'll also come to understand the tools and materials you will need to build your skills. Creating Wooden Jewelry is for woodworkers who want to extend their practice to jewelry, as well as those who want to learn woodworking skills, but find furniture too intimidating or too large, and want an alternative to smaller projects like bowls and boxes. Take jewelry beyond metal with the step-by-step projects and skill-building techniques inside Creating Wooden Jewelry!

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