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Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners
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A course in designing and making jewellery. This work offers tutorials that guide you through various stages of the process, revealing how to translate inspired ideas into workable, wearable designs, and provides professional advice on presenting and selling your work.
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Review by Mrs Bad Crumble for Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners
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Whilst the “Search Inside” option gave some indication as to the quality of this book, I was blown away by the sheer depth of information and guidance.
The book is split down into 34 units with 6 practical projects that cross reference with the techniques taught. The units take you through the complete process, from finding inspiration, evaluating & translating ideas through to transferring patterns, piercing, annealing, soldering, filing and many much more. Everything is laid out in an uncluttered fashion with lots of photos so you can be sure you are following correctly whilst the text is written at just the right level – neither patronizing or too advanced.
I must confess I am only a beginner so cannot really comment on what it offers those slightly more advanced, however it does seem to have so much information that even once my confidence and skill grows I’ll still be referring back to this.
A beautiful, informative book that I would highly recommend to all would-be jewellery designers.
Review by K. Platt for Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners
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With its attractive cover, I know you will pick this book up off the bookshop shelf if you are the least bit interested in jewellery making. From design ideas and inspiration, this book aims to take the jewellery maker through the whole process from start to finish. Comprehensive chapters include setting up a studio, materials, tools and techniques. Although it covers some of the same area as Elizabeth Olver’s book Jewellery Making Techniques, the two books do not overlap too much and complement one another perfectly. The projects are laid out in easy to follow steps and the finished samples and steps are clearly photographed. You could easily use it as a week by week course. This practical book will be very useful to all jewellery makers. It’s great value for money. This book would have been more rounded and complete if it had included more sources of inspiration and a good sources listing, however it does mention just a few magazines, books and website.
Review by Maria Athina for Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners
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This book is great as it is described by others. However DON’T order both this and the “Start Making Jewellery: Make Your Own Beautiful Jewellery by Nicola Hurst”, because however they are from different authors, they are from the same editor and they are very similar in structure, they even have some pictures the same. They are so similar that i can’t tell you now that i ve just looked at them which is better,they are both great. I will leave the same comment review to the other book too, in order to prwvent others from buying so similar books together.
Review by Strictly Silvana for Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners
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As a hobbyist who attends evening classes for silversmithing I can honestly say this book is ideal for the beginner. The beginning was particularly useful to me as I have to produce a workbook for an accredited course – it deals with inspiration and how to come up with sketches and ideas – which was great for me. The rest of the book covers both the tools you might choose to purchase (ranking these in importance, which I thought was a good idea) and then basically covers every technique you could possibly think of. Each section provides a very clear list of items needed and is set out in a very clear, easily accessible way. The projects at the back are all do-able and draw upon the explanations given throughout the book. The illustrations also provide some interesting examples of jewellery which certainly gave me some inspiration. It is one of the better examples of its kind, in my humble opinion.
Review by E. C. S. Sanchez for Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners
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A must-have for all fledgling jewellery makers, but watch out, “Jewellery Making: A Complete Course for Beginners” by Jinks McGrath is exactly the same book as “The Complete Jewelry Making Course: Principles, Practice and Techniques: A Beginner’s Course for Aspiring Jewelry Makers” by Jinks McGrath (Paperback – Nov 2007).
I made the mistake of buying both books at the bookfair in college in the summer. In fact I have two duplicate sets of jewellery books bought at the same bookfair. The other set is “Jewellery Materials Sourcebook” by Anastasia Young and its American twin “Jewelry Techniques: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Using Materials, Stones, and Settings” by Anastasia Young. Seems that there exists a custom of altering book titles either side of the Atlantic. – I also have a set of twin basketry books by one of our tutors here at City Lit, London!
All this aside, buy one or the other of Jinks McGrath’s beginners jewellery books: an excellent and beautifully presented resource for the budding jeweller!
(And I will continue to give the two words their UK spelling, with two ‘l’s and three ‘e’s, in spite of what the spell-check says!)