Create fabulous designs featuring a variety of metal beads, charms, chains and findings including silver, gold, and base metals.|Mix up your jewellery repertoire! Create fabulous designs featuring a variety of metal beads, charms, chains and findings including silver, gold, and base metals. Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings The editors of Stringing and Beadwork magazines show off their design skills with 21 unique projects that incorporate all kinds of metals like silver, gold, copper, brass, PMC, and more. Projects are constructed using basic stringing and wireworking techniques that are accessible to beginners, while the boutique-style designs will captivate the more experienced beader. Mixed Metals begins with a detailed how-to technique section covering a variety of jewellery basics. Techniques for distressing metal using liver of sulphurand other patinas along with hammering. Background information is given on each type of metal, from common properties to shopping tips to care and cleaning. 21 projects with detailed instructions show creative ways to use silver, gold, and base metals in jewellery designs - as well as ideas for mixing metals and using faux metals. Most metal jewellery books focus on making the metal components either with PMC, wireworking, or metalsmithing. Mixed Metals is so much easier, focusing on making jewellery with pre-made metal beads, charms, chain, and components combined with accent beads using simple stringing and wireworking techniques. No metalworking required!

Author Biography

Danielle Fox is the editor of Stringing magazine and author of Simply Modern Jewelry: Designs from the editor of Stringing magazine. Prior to working at Interweave Press, she was an editor at House Beautiful magazine in New York City and an editor at Colorado Homes & Lifestyles magazine in Englewood, Colorado. She has done freelance writing for The Denver Post, The Boulder Daily Camera, Natural Home magazine, Footwear News, and Boulder magazine. Danielle lives in Longmont, Colorado. Melinda Barta is managing editor of Beadwork and Stringing magazines and the former projects editor of PieceWork magazine. She has a BFA degree in fiber arts and a minor in apparel design from Colorado State University and is the author of Hip to Stitch (Interweave). She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.