Jewellery has made a spectacular comeback on the fashion catwalks and is now to be seen in all the popular high street stores. This fantastic collection shows just how easy it is to make your own individual necklaces using simple techniques and the fabulous range of beads that are now readily available: from seed beads in all the colours of the rainbow to semi-precious stone chips to iridescent crystals.
There are designs for single and multi-strand necklaces, looped chains, chokers and lariats; the designs are simple and sophisticated or brash and beautiful. The basic techniques section at the start of the book works through a basic strung necklace and is followed by twenty beautiful designs. Each of these is shown in full step by step detail and each one is made and photographed in five different colourways to give a fantastic choice of colours, designs and styles for all occasions.
1. Introduction
2. Materials and equipment
3. Techniques
4. The projects
5. Floating glass star necklace
6. Antique jewellery necklace
7. Twisted necklace
8. Peyote tube necklace
9. Glass lariat
10. Twisted wire necklace
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