Every technique you need to know to make your own beautiful wire jewellery. Wire is a wonderfully versatile and forgiving medium making these techniques ideal for absolute beginners, while the extensive jig pattern directory provides an incredible variety of inspiration for the more experienced jewellery makers.
Wire is a wonderful material for making jewellery: versatile, forgiving of beginners, and available in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours. This book shows you how to combine wire with other materials such as crystals, beads, stones, leather and cords; as well as how to exploit wire's manipulative qualities to wrap, bend, form, twist, weave, knot and knit.
Content includes an extensive directory of jig patterns, organised into theme and shown as made-up samples, as well as numbered pattern diagrams so you can reproduce the designs at home in the wire of your choice.
Professional jewellery designer and teacher Wing Mun Devenney is known for her beautiful contemporary pieces and is the author of The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers (Search Press, September 2013).
- From professional jewellery designer and author of The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers
- Features jig pattern directory and detailed techniques
- Clear, numbered diagrams for all patterns
About Wing Mun Devenney
Wing Mun Devenney is a jewellery designer, teacher, product developer and business expert. Her career to date has included working with some of the largest and most successful global jewellery and fashion brands; developing and designing winning jewellery and accessory collections. Her wealth of knowledge jewellery is shared here and in her previous book, The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers (Search Press, September 2013).
Bead Society of Great Britain Journal
121 Spring/Summer 2016
At a first flick through this book i was impressed with the amount of photos showing step by step instructions. Very clear and accompanied by good instructions as well. It is definitely what I would call a technique heavy book. They include freeform wiring, using a jig, using a coil maker, macrame, making a chain etc... At the back of the book there is a template directory for jig and freeform wire patterns. This is a nice addition, though again I'm not sure if some of the patterns, for example why anyone would wnat to make a wire envelope shape, but I guess its just because you can! Would be a great book for anyone who wanted to start a journey into wirework jewellery. I think its the best book technique wise that I have seen, don't let the slightly weird projects put you off!
