Wire in Design: Modern Wire Art & Mixed Media

by Barbara A. McGuire

Book Overview

Wire is not boring or still...Wire is alive Wire has held fascination as an art and craft medium for many years, but it has only come into the limelight as of late. If you have an interest in wire's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873492188
• ISBN13: 9780873492188
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

great projects and color pictures

Great projects, lots of color photos, and clear directions make this a fine book for beginners and more advanced wire working.

An Inspiring Book - from cover to cover

This was one of the first books I bought when I started making jewelry and is still by far, the most inspirational. The variety of the artists covered and their different styles is what I love. The section on Lynne Merchant was truly one of the reasons I started working with wire, and my life has never been the same! The projects offered in this are interesting and offer a nice opportunity for a person to follow the directions, but still end up with something completely unique. [...]

Creatively Inspiring

This book has beautiful illustrations, detailed and well chosen content and a nice cross section of the artists' crafts in wire. Best of all, it inspires the creative spark.

First rate book on designing with wire

Above all, this book shares with us a detailed article (with pictures!) with one of the most influential wire jewelry artisans of the past decade - Lynne Merchant. IMHO, the recently popular thick, oxidized silver, tribal/ethnic, coiled/wrapped style starts with her. It's interesting to see that at least three of the other artists profiled in the book have mentioned taking classes with Lynne. To see their work, and how they have taken the skills that they have learned from Lynne and utilzed them to develop a style of their own, is just fantastic.

Excellent Book

Easy to understand, great photography, nice projects and you don't need to be a really talented artist to follow the directions and end up with a piece of art that you'll be proud of.