All Wired Up; Wire Techniques for the Beadworker and Jewelry Maker

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781883010737
• ISBN10: 188301073X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Interweave Press

Summary

The step-by-step techniques featured in this richly illustrated book take the beginner who knows little about wirework on a journey to creating artistic and unique free-form jewelry. Using round wire that is readily available and economically viable, wireworkers learn everything from how to hold pliers to how to make ear wires, hook-and-eye closures, and cages for marbles and cabochons. Line drawings, photographs of finished objects, and a wirework gallery of pieces by the author and other contemporary wirework artists provide sample creations and ideas for the innovative wireworker.

Author Biography

I was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in February of 1964 (brrrr). My first recollection of doing wirework had nothing to do with a conscious decision to actually "do wirework." My older brother Ed and I garishly embellished our bicycles with brightly colored coated wire we scavenged from the junked rotary dial telephones we'd stolen from the Bell Canada scrap piles in the phone company's maintenance shed down the street from where we lived. My "real" wire odyssey started in 1988, when I began making simple wire jewelry and some very basic mobiles. In 1992, my wife Viki and I opened The Bead Factory, a retail bead shop, in Tacoma, Washington, and I have been teaching weekly classes there (and all over the country from Honolulu to Rhode Island) ever since.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(1)
Materials and Tools	7	(8)
Getting Started	15	(4)
Basic Wirework Techniques	19	(14)
Basic Wirework Projects	33	(12)
Findings	45	(12)
Ear Wires	57	(10)
Clasps	67	(16)
Cages	83	(22)
Gallery of Contemporary Wirework	105	(21)
Resources	126	(1)
Index	127