Easy and Elegant Beaded Copper Jewelry : How to Create Beautiful Fashion Accessories from a Few Basic Steps

Bend It, Shape It, Anyway You Want It...Wire Jewelry

Prolific craft author and instructor, Lora Irish is back with a fresh volume of craft techniques, this time on making wire jewelry. Using inexpensive wire and tools commonly found around the home, you will learn how to bend, twist and coil wire to create an endless variety of shapes for attractive necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

Once you master the basic wire shapes, you will learn how to create finished pieces by incorporating fasteners, earring hooks and cording. When these basic building blocks are mastered, you will learn how to embellish your designs with beads and more complex designs. Practice projects, step by step instructions and a gallery of designs will show you just how easy it is to get started in this fun and rewarding craft.

Lora S. Irish is an internationally known artist and author.In addition to her work as an author, in 1997, working from her home studio, Lora and her husband, Michael, created carvingpatterns(dot)com, an Internet-based studio focusing on online tutorials, projects, and patterns created exclusively by Lora for crafters and artisans. The website offers more than 1,500 patterns in various subject categories, including Americana, Animal and Wildlife, Celtic Knots, Dragons and Beasts, Nautical and Sea Life, Spirit People, and many more. Lora continues to provide new patterns-and inspiration to many artists-at the site. Lora also contributes a regular relief carving pattern column to Woodcarving Illustrated magazine and is a frequent contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts magazine.