Prefab Jewelry: Easy Projects Using Readymade Parts

By Marthe Le Van

Book Overview

The secret is out! Here's how skilled crafters make gallery-quality modular jewelry out of inexpensive mass-produced parts. All the essential techniques--sawing, filing, drilling, making cold connections, soldering, polishing--are illustrated in full-color photography and then utilized in 25 beautiful projects by contemporary designers, from Victoria Cho's "Guitar String Stickpin" to Joanna Gollberg's elegant cerulean and gold necklace. Finally, a spectacular color gallery of necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets, rings, and brooches demonstrates the vast range of creative possibilities in prefab jewelry design.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600595553
• ISBN13: 9781600595554
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 8.5"