Design and Make: Mixed-Media Jewellery

Make your own stunning jewellery using a wide variety of materials from metal leaf and wood to polymer clay and wire.

There are very few books that cover mixed-media jewellery, and this book provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to all the materials and techniques you need to get you started in this exciting area of jewellery making. It will help beginner jewellers learn and adapt a wide range of techniques and skills to various types of materials and learn how to incorporate these within their own designs. Materials covered include: tinplate and metal leaf, wood and pigment, metals and pigment, paper with metal, found objects, fabric and pigment, polymer clay and fibres, felt and wire. The construction sequences include sixteen projects using mixed media methods. In the final section artists share their knowledge and experience with the reader.