Product Description

Design and Make Mixed Media Jewellery provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to a wide range of materials and techniques that you need to get started in this exciting area of jewellery making. This book will help jewellers of all levels learn and adapt a wide range of techniques and skills to various types of materials through a series of making sequences, and learn how to incorporate these within their own designs. Materials covered include silver, paper, metal leaf, polypropylene, cover buttons, beads, tin cans, found objects, printed images, willows, yarns, felt, fishing latex elastic, wood and polymer clay. The making sequence includes twelve projects using mixed media methods. Gallery pages showcase leading makers around the world and contextualise the projects, linking each one to a gallery of contemporary makers work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103347 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
'This vibrant, colourful 160 page book is a good introduction to materials and methods of working mixed media jewellery.'
--karenplatt.co.uk (June 2009)

About the Author
Joanne Haywood has been a teacher in the field of Art and Design since 2002. She teaches a range of subjects including jewellery design, life drawing, textiles, fashion and 3D design. Joanne is also a studio jeweller and her work has been shown in a number of galleries and exhibitions internationally. She has been featured in several books for both her jewellery and her textiles, and was a finalist in the Textile Directory Design Awards 2007.

Customer Reviews

A must-have resource for designing and making jewellery
This is a really user-friendly book packed full with projects which use a diverse range of materials and techniques. Not only does it provide a step-by-step guide to producing the projects outlined, but the author suggests alternative design ideas and materials. Projects are categorised as beginner, intermediate or advanced, and are supported by examples of sketchbook ideas and finished work.

Unlike some other jewellery books which inspire you with exciting images of others' works only to leave you at a loss of where to begin, this book integrates designing and making `lessons' with the work of jewellery artists - who are introduced to the reader.

This really is a must-have book for anyone wanting to broaden their jewellery practice - or for anyone who wants to put their creativity to good use and make something unique to wear!

Birdie Broach
I am in love with the birdie broach and only wish that I could come up with such fun ideas! I know you said you can make sausage dogs - how about Schnauzers? Joking aside, this is a fantastic book full of inspirational designs using an eclectic range of materials that accommodate every budget and taste.

I'm really looking forward to trying out some of the projects in the book as they are contemporary and explore an exciting range of design ideas that inspire the imagination.

I would recommend this book to all creative personalities.

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Sally Pharo

Mixed feelings
This is a book that can't decide whether it is for beginners or experienced jewellery artists. The content gives detailed information on fairly obvious mixed media materials, and also on soldering and silver work, and assumes access to jewellers tools.
I admit I am more interested in mixed media than jewellery, and while there is certainly a wide range of media covered, I found the jewellery more experimental than wearable. For example a ring made of silver wire and silver tube, the 15mm long tube standing straight up from the ring, topped with a plastic candle holder and the ring bound with yarn. This involves silver soldering and jewellers tools, and the end result, while interesting, would hardly be wearable and to me is not attractive.
A good deal of the book is dedicated to galleries of artists' work, and 30 pages of interviews with artists. There is no detailed information on the making of the work shown.
There are 11 projects, ranging from basic rolled paper and aluminium can beads, to complex projects such as the ring mentioned above and a pendant made from a found pottery shard and silver. There is also a good deal of information on tools, materials and design development.
The information, presentation and photography is excellent, and if you want to really push your boundaries with experimental jewellery then you will find this book a useful resource, for this reason I have given it an objective four stars, subjectively it would be more like two.