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More gift ideas - jewelry books

Posted by Leah on Nov 30, 2007

I was looking at jewelry books on Amazon and found a bunch that I think would make good gifts for an aspiring jeweler. Here are a few:

Marketing and Selling Your Handmade Jewelry: The Complete Guide to Turning Your Passion into Profit by Vicki Lareau sounds like a great book for anyone wanting to go from hobbyist to professional jewelry maker.

Bead On A Wire: Making Handcrafted Wire and Beaded Jewelry by Sharilyn Miller. Sharilyn is a wire jewelry teacher with a great reputation - although I haven’t read this book, I’ve heard wonderful things about it.

500 Earrings: New Directions in Contemporary Jewelry (Lark Jewellery) is a book that is all pictures - 500 to be exact, all of earrings in various styles by hundreds of different jewelers. I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but I have a 500 Beaded Objects and 1000 Rings from the same series, and they are great if what you really want is a lot of inspiring pictures of jewelry, rather than actual instruction.

All Wired Up: Wire Techniques for the Beadworker and Jewelry Maker (Beadwork How-To series) by Mark Lareau. A classic book on making jewelry with wire.

2 Comments »

Just added you to my blog =D

damdesigns.blogspot.com

great list of books! =D To bad I only make pendants =(

December 3rd, 2007 | 8:02 pm

Great ideas!

December 11th, 2007 | 6:58 am
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