Product Description

"Love to Make Jewellery" is packed with alluring and stylish ideas from Japanese textile artist, Emi Iwakiri, for making your own designer necklaces and chokers, bracelets and bangles, brooches and pins. Using traditional Japanese crochet techniques, these adorable designs use fabrics, ribbons, beads, bows and even the scraps in your sewing box. There are stunning ideas and designs here to suit every occasion, from a classic cream silk and pearl necklace - the perfect accessory to the little black dress - to a vintage-style floral belt made from old cashmere sweaters.Follow the step-by-step instructions to create the perfect finishing touch to a favourite outfit or charming gifts to give to friends. With designs tried and tested in Tokyo's fashionable Shibuya district, these unique pieces incorporating hand-stitched flowers, sparkling beads and embellished buttons are guaranteed to be a hit for any dedicated follower of fashion. Whether you want to create original jewellery for yourself or to give as presents to friends and family, you are sure to love Emi's stylish Japanese designs. And when you have mastered her simple basic techniques, you will be able to create your own bespoke pieces.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11249 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

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Beautiful Hand-stitched Jewellery: 35 Unique Crocheted and Hand-stiched Projects Inspired by Tokyo Style

I didn't like this book much. Apart from some embroidery most of the designs are done in raffia ew!! or old cashmere sweaters. Which is fine if you own some but there are no suggestions for an alternative, it says you can't use hand knits, no fun as I'm a knitter!. I thought the flowers on the front were knitted or crocheted too, they're not.This gets the thumbs down from me.

Beautiful Hand-stitched Jewellery: 35 Unique Crocheted and Hand-stiched Projects Inspired by Tokyo Style
Fantastic book, beautiful work by the artist. Lovely photos and good explanations. I really love it

interesting if a little impractical
This book has many projects to make jewellery in knitting and crochet. however, somewhat unexpectedly, rather than these involving knitting or crcohet from scracth with wool you can buy or own, a lot of them involving reusing existing knitted items. I'm all for a bit of recycling but I'm afraid i just don't own enough old cahsmere jumpers (thta's what it says to use) to make some of the projects.

but if you do own a lot of old fine quality knits then this may well be the book for you...in the meantime I'm still collceting them second hand so have not yet had the chance to make anything.

that said, there are som erally nice looking things in this book.