Articles Index
A Book Review of Heat, Color, Set and Fire
Learn how to add color and texture to metal using the heating methods described in this book by Mary Hettmansperger.
Book Review: Showcase 500 Rings by Bruce Metcalf
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.
Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry - Book Review
Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon, and Cords by Lorelei Eurto and Erin Siegel mixes interesting stringing media with beads.
Teach Yourself Visually More Jewelry Making by Chris Franchetti Michaels
Teach Yourself Visually More Jewelry Making by Chris Franchetti Michaels includes lots of photographs to "show" and not just tell how to make jewelry.
Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue
Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue is part of Lark Jewelry and Beading's Master Artist series and focuses on the designed for bead weaving artist Sonoko Nozue.
Metal Clay Fusion: Diverse Clays, Detailed Technique, Artful Projects
Metal Clay Fusion: Diverse Clays, Detailed Technique, Artful Projects by Gordon Uyehara is part of the Lark Jewelry and Beading Master Class series.
Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles and Techniques
Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles and Techniques by Anastasia Young is published by Interweave.
Diane Fitzgerald's Favorite Beading Projects
The book entitled Diane Fitzgerald's Favorite Beading Projects is a wonderful collection of bead stringing and bead weaving projects from the master, Diane Fitzgerald.
Enlightened Polymer Clay: Artisan Jewelry Designs Inspired by Nature
Enlightened Polymer Clay: Artisan Jewelry Designs Inspired by Nature by Rie Nagumo is a very unique approach to polymer clay jewelry making.
Lark Studio Series: Earrings and Pendants
Lark Books has created a series of mini-gallery style books for a collection entitled the Lark Studio Series.
The Art of Resin Clay by Sherri Haab, Rachel Haab, and Michelle Haab
Well-known jewelry designer Sherri Haab teams up with family members in this book that shows how to work with a unique medium, resin clay.
A Bounty of Bead and Wire Earrings
This book Nathalie Mornu is packed full of 50 bead and wire earrings for all tastes and style preferences.
The Penland Book of Glass: Master Classes in Flamework Techniques
The Penland Book of Glass: Master Classes in Flamework Techniques provides a look into how 10 well-known flamework artists create beautiful glass works of art, including jewelry designs.
Color, Texture and Casting for Jewelers
Color, Texture and Casting for Jewelers: Hands-on Demonstrations and Practical Applications by Carles Codina is full of photographs covering fine jewelry making techniques such as casting, plating, and keum boo.
Dimensional Bead Embroidery: A Reference Guide to Techniques
Dimensional Bead Embroidery: A Reference Guide to Techniques by Jamie Cloud Eakin shows how to combine cabochons and other elements that will give your seed bead jewelry more depth.
Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance: 20 Beaded Jewelry Designs
Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance: 20 Beaded Jewelry Designs is full of bead woven jewelry that revivals many fine jewelry designs.
Rachel Nelson-Smith's Bead Riffs
Rachel Nelson-Smith's Bead Riffs plays with seed beads in an amazing way.
Ring a Day: 700 Photos from a 365 Day Jewelry Challenge by Marthe Le Van
Ring a Day: 700 Photos from a 365 Day Jewelry Challenge by Marthe Le Van is a chunky little book packed full of dynamic and contemporary ring designs.
Chains, Chains, Chains: 25 Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings
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.
New Dimensions in Bead and Wire Jewelry
New Dimensions in Bead and Wire Jewelry by Margot Potter takes a 3-D approach to jewelry making by creating sculptural jewelry designs.
21st Century Jewelry: The Best of the 500 Series
21st Century Jewelry: The Best of the 500 Series is curated and edited by Marthe Le Van and is the culmination of other 500 series jewelry and beading books.
Hot Connections Jewelry
Jennifer Chin offers up elegant and sleek designs in this book, Hot Connections Jewelry: The Complete Sourcebook of Soldering Techniques.
Beadecked Bead Books
Laura Jansen has created a series of book for bead weavers who enjoy making gorgeous beaded ornament covers.
30-Minute Rings by Marthe Le Van
This is the third in a series of 30-minute jewelry books from Lark Publishers and author Marthe Le Van.
30-Minute Earrings by Marthe Le Van
30-Minute Earrings by Marthe Le Van includes 60 super fast earring projects.