Handcrafted Wire Findings: Techniques and Designs for Custom Jewelry Components [Paperback]

Add personal style at minimal cost with custom-made findings!

Why spend hundreds of dollars stocking up on expensive manufactured clasps, jump rings, ear wires, bails, and more when you can make exactly what you need for a fraction of the cost? Making custom findings enables jewelry makers to affordably create just the right component to complement their own jewelry designs.

Handcrafted Wire Findingslooks at your wire stash and focuses on how to create custom, professional-quality findings. With fundamental skills for beginners that progress to more sophisticated designs, this book covers techniques such as basic wirework, texturizing, silver fusing, adding patina, and traditional finishes.

Included are over 30 projects for making custom wire findings, each accompanied by step-by-step photographs and directions to ensure success.

Denise Peckis the editor ofStep by Step Wire Jewelrymagazine. She is also the author of the bestselling books101 Wire Earrings,Wire Style, andWire Style 2. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Jane Dickersonis the author of the best-selling bookChain Styleand a freelance editor, writer, and jewelry designer. She was formerly the editor ofStep by Step Beads,Creative Jewelry, andBead Starmagazines, and a contributing editor toStep by Step Wire Jewelrymagazine. Her jewelry designs have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she sells her designs on Etsy.

Once you see just how easy it is to make your own stunning custom findings, you'll never go back. - beading-arts.com