Creating Wooden Jewelry: 24 Skill-Building Projects and Techniques (Fox Chapel Publishing) Comprehensive Guide to Create Stand-Out Pieces from Wood; Learn Jointing, Steaming, Beveling, Inlaying & More - Softcover

Sarah King

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497100011 ISBN 13: 9781497100015

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Take your jewelry design beyond metal!

• Comprehensive guide to creating wooden jewelry, with techniques presented by progressive skill learning
• 14 step-by-step jewelry projects to create, each fresh and modern, including rings, necklaces, pendants, and pins
• Learn woodworking skills and practice jointing, turning, steaming, polishing, staining, painting, beveling, inlaying, and more
• Learn how to shape, connect, and treat wood, as well as the necessary tools and materials for each technique
• Combine wood with other media, from silver to silicon, and learn how to ebonize and electroform wood
• Four special profiles feature talented guests Inni Parnanen, Terhi Tolvanen, Beppe Kessler, and Lina Peterson

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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From the Back Cover

Wood You Can Wear!

Transform wood into wearable pieces of modern art! For jewelry makers and woodworkers seeking new and exciting projects, Creating Wooden Jewelry will teach you skill-building techniques to shape wood into stunning pieces of jewelry. Through a wide variety of detailed technique lessons and 14 step-by-step projects for necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, pins, and even cuff links, you'll be amazed by the sculptural, contemporary designs—all made from wood!

Author and award-winning artist Sarah King shares her jewelry making expertise in this first-ever guide to creating wooden jewelry. Learn from an expert wood jewelry maker—as well as four other studio jewelers in the artist profiles—and see wood in a whole new light.

• Practice several woodworking techniques for creating jewelry, from basic to advanced
• Complete 14 projects with step-by-step instructions and photography
• Learn how to shape, connect, and treat wood, as well as other processes like electroforming and ebonizing
• Understand necessary tools and materials for a variety of skills
• Read four artist profiles from leading studio wooden jewelers

"An inspiring collection of ideas and projects for jewelers and woodworkers alike."
—Carole Rothman, author of Scroll Saw Wooden Bowls, Revised & Expanded Edition

About the Author

Sarah King is an artist jeweler who works with materials, form and structure to make sculptural, contemporary, yet feminine jewelry. Her work has sold in department stores, design stores, boutiques and galleries, including Barneys, Jeweler's Work Gallery, Tate Modern shop, Liberty of London, The Conran Shop, Aram Gallery, Ally Capellino, The Cross, and EC One. Her one-off pieces are in public collections in the UK, USA, and Germany. She has won many awards such as the Association of Contemporary Jewelry Prize, and features in numerous books on contemporary jewelry. Sarah is one of only 50 international contemporary jewelers invited to show at the LOOT exhibition at the New York Museum of Arts and Design. Sarah teaches bespoke, specialist jewelry classes in her central London studio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1497100011
• ISBN 13: 9781497100015
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176