This inspiration-filled volume has instructions for more than 70 unique jewelry pieces from a diverse group of designers. Learn the tricks of using a jig, wire wrapping, twisting, coiling and hammering to create incredible effects.

Steampunk pairs mechanical objects with Victorian charms, chains, gems, and beads, to create one-of-a-kind jewelry that marries romance, technology, and attitude. The 20 projects here require only basic techniques - stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, and beadwork - and conjure up images that at once embody the teatime intrigues of Jane Austen, the inventiveness of H.G. Wells, and the edginess of Mad Max.

From fuzzy critter pins to button bracelets this book presents step-by-step directions for making seven craft projects creating simple jewelry.

People al over the world wear clothing to keep warm and jewelry to look attractive. What we wear and how we decorate our bodies also say a lot about our culture and our social class.

How to make and bake zillions of permanent clay creations.

Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the...

Art patron Millicent Rogers was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewelry during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American...