Metal Jewelry Book Reviews

Stamped Metal Jewelry: Creative Techniques and Designs for Making Custom Jewelry by Lisa Niven Kelly includes a 30 minute DVD and nineteen projects focusing on using metal stamps to decorate fabricated metal jewelry.

These books cover metal jewelry making including fabrication and soldering techniques.

Contemporary Copper Jewelry: Step-by-Step Techniques and Projects from Sharilyn Miller includes 17 projects incorporating primarily copper wire.

Author and talented jewelry designer Nana V. Mizushima has gathered up lots of different jewelry techniques to create this collection of ring projects for her book, Make Your Own Rings: Easy Ring Projects to Do at Home.

Mixed Metals: Creating Contemporary Jewelry with Silver, Gold, Copper, Brass and More by Melinda Barta and Danielle Fox demonstrate that you don't have to stick with one type of metal even in the same piece of jewelry.

Chic Metal: Modern Metal Jewelry to Make at Home by Victoria Tillotson starts with simple fabrication techniques and builds on these as you work your way through 29 metal jewelry projects.

Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters: All Chained Up by Victoria Lansford demonstrates the ancient tradition of making Mediterranean chain patterns.

Jewelry Techniques: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Using Materials, Stones, and Settings by Anastasia Young is a reference book covering a huge assortment of jewelry making techniques for the serious jewelry designer.

Making Jewelry and Beading by Denise Etchison and Sandy Doell covers beading and a whole lot more for the beginner jewelry maker.

Mostly Metals by Karin Buckingham focuses on beginner-level jewelry using various metal forms such as wire and metal beads.

Step-by-Step Jewelry Workshop by Nicola Hurst covers many of the basics when it comes to metal and wire work.

This is a continuation on making Native American jewelry from volume one with the same title.

Learn to make authentic Native American style jewelry with the project from this book.

Silver Threads by Jeanne Rhodes-Moen is packed full of details and beautiful filigree jewelry.

If you've been thinking of trying out Precious Metal Clay, then you might want to consider this book as a form of information and inspiration.

New and better than ever....find out why Tim McCreight's newest edition of his famous book, Complete Metalsmith, is do different from past editions.

Metalworking 101 for Beaders: Create Custom Findings, Pendants, and Projects by Candie Cooper

The Ultimate Jeweler's Guide: The Illustrated Reference of Techniques, Tools, and Materials by Joanna Gollberg is a general reference book primarily covering a wide range of metal fabrication methods.

Mixed Metal Jewelry Workshop by Mary Hettmansperger combines sheet, clay, mesh, wire and more to create a mix of metal jewelry designs.

Create Colorful Aluminum Jewelry by Helen Harle literally turns trash, in the form of aluminum cans, into treasure, as in some colorful jewelry designs.

30-Minute Earrings by Marthe Le Van includes 60 super fast earring projects.

Jewelry Design Challenge published by Lark Books challenged 30 jewelry designers to use nine of the same materials plus one of their choosing to create some amazing jewelry designs.

As part of a series of 30-minute jewelry books, 30-Minute Necklaces: 60 Quick and Creative Projects for Jewelers by Marthe Le Van includes 60 projects from dozens of talented jewelry designers.

Anodized: Brilliant Colors and Bold Designs for Aluminum Jewelry by Clare Stiles shows how to color, paint, and form anodized aluminum into jewelry.

Making Metal Beads: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration by Pauline Warg demonstrates a number of techniques for making beads from metal as well as altering prefabricated metal beads.

Metal Style: 20 Jewelry Designs with Cold Joint Techniques by Karen Dougherty explains how to make lots of metal jewelry without the use of a torch.

The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry by Joanna Gollberg covers an assortment of jewelry making techniques primarily geared towards metal work.

From Lark Publishers and author Marthe Le Van, This is the third in a series of 30-minute jewelry books.

Jennifer Chin offers up elegant and sleek designs in this book, Hot Connections Jewelry: The Complete Sourcebook of Soldering Techniques.

Chains, Chains, Chains: 25 Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings by Joanna Gollberg and Nathalie Mornu is project driven book that focus on all kinds of unique chain designs.

Carles Codina covers many fine jewelry making techniques such as casting, plating, and keum boo in this books entitled Color, Texture and Casting for Jewelers: Hands-on Demonstrations and Practical Applications.

Lark Books has created a series of mini-gallery style books for a collection entitled the Lark Studio Series.

Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles and Techniques by Anastasia Young is published by Interweave.

Learn how to add color and texture to metal using the heating methods described in this book by Mary Hettmansperger.

Showcase 500 Rings by Bruce Metcalf is a book that works like a gallery and is packed full of beautiful hand-crafted ring designs to help inspires you.