Product Description

One of today's hottest and refreshingly inspirational jewellery designers, Claire Aristides, offers her expert knowledge in making fashion jewellery in this practical step-by-step guide. Packed with beautiful bespoke pieces to make and wear, "Bejewelled" comprises of a breathtaking range of vintage, classic, and contemporary necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings. The handmade pieces featured will see you through all seasons and all occasions: from pairing a topaz pendant necklace with a fresh summer dress for a casual day out, to making a pair of sparkly chandelier earrings for the perfect accessory to a formal wedding outfit.Claire's personal passion for handmade excellence is echoed throughout the book in the simplicity of her jewellery, her love of mixing colour and texture and her ability to choose the most alluring stones and materials. She offers first hand advice on getting started, how to first approach the designs and choose from the vast array of beads and materials available. Within the jewellery section itself, 30 step-by-step projects throughout the four chapters demonstrate a variety of skills for all levels. The beginner to the advanced can progress through the collection, from making a Vintage pearl bracelet to a Swarovski crystal pendant. These are treasures to make and wear with pride.This is a Practical step-by-step guide to making designer fashion jewellery. Each project is accompanied by glossy stylised photographs, as seen in the pages of leading fashion magazines.The designs are fashionable and refreshing and will appeal to the mainstream female market, aged between 20 to 50 years.The book is packed with technical tips particularly helpful for the beginner, fashion trends to consider when making jewellery and technical concepts such as wiring, making components, dying metal and beads and working with different material such as suede and cord.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83115 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Australian born, Claire Aristides moved from Sydney 10 years ago to live in the UK, and has since made her name as the innovative Creative Director of Pinky Jewellery, her own bespoke fashion jewellery brand. Her breathtaking range of vintage, classic and contemporary necklaces, earrings and bracelets, created to suit every style and budget has won Claire critical acclaim from fashion experts from all around the globe, with her designs being stocked on over 70 boutiques and department stores across the UK, Japan and the USA. Her jewellery has won great media attention and featured in countless magazines, Claire's love and passion for the art of fashion jewellery led her to start teaching jewellery-making classes from her London studio.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic, Beautiful Book!
This book is fantastic; for beginner jewellery makers & also those more advanced. Filled with beautiful pictures and easy to follow instructions throughout. This book is a must for anyone wanting to create beautiful, unique pieces using crystal, beads, gemstones, glass, acrylic, wood, fabric and metal. It covers making bracelets, earrings necklaces, rings and trinkets.

The book gives you basic materials and instructions needed to get you started jewellery making, and gives you a low down on exactly what items and sizes needed to create the 30 step by step projects and at the end of the book gives you a suppliers list of where the items can be located; and it is a nice change to see that it's UK website addresses!

I cannot recommend this book enough!

love it
this book is beautiful and has some stunning inspiration for all jewlery makes alike, altho i did find the step by step guids alittle hard to follow compared to some other books i have bought. but this is well worth the money and in hope that she brings another book out.

Great reference work!
This book is worth buying if you are a jewellery designer, and need inspiration and some ideas to try out.
Easy to follow.