Wonderful, Wearable Wire: Elegant and Easy Wire Jewelry Designs Using the Olympus Wigjig : Over 180 Designs for Beginning to Advance Wire Workers - Softcover

Bacon, Betty; Ray, Karen; Helwig, Marjorie; Helwig, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965078426 ISBN 13: 9780965078429

Publisher: Helwig Industries Llc, 1999

Synopsis

Wonderful, Wearable Wire is a new book of 180 wire working designs made on the WigJig Olympus Transparent Jig. This 172-page book has 5 chapters - "Chains, Links and Clasps", "Pendants and Earrings", "Yokes and Pins", "Suncatchers and Holiday Ornaments", and "Wire Working Tips & Hints". It's so simple to duplicate the book's designs because of the transparency of the WigJig Olympus. Just place the jig on top of the patterns, place the pegs and form the designs. The book has many great ideas for wire designs, that it is a great resource, even without the WigJig Olympus.

The "Wire Working Tips & Hints" chapter is filled with 28 pages of wire working techniques. We show you how to make wire cages, how to wire wrap beads, how to make pins, coils, scrolls, and much more. We have also included color photographs throughout the book that depict many of the book's designs in a variety of wire types, including sterling silver, gold-filled and colored "Artistic Wire.

About this title

From the Author:

Wonderful, Wearable Wire is a fun and easy way for beginning wire workers to make jewelry. With over 30 pages of tips and hints, this book provides detailed instructions and guidance for working with wire.

The book is also a great way for intermediate wire workers to improve their skills using the WigJig Olympus transparent jig. The book includes a wide variety of designs, ranging from simple to complex, and from tiny (under 1") to large (over 4"). It includes graphics as well as step-by-step instructions the demonstrate how each wire design is made on the WigJig Olympus. The jig provides the wire worker with the capability to make wire shapes in a consistent, repeatable and professional manner.

Even advanced wire workers and designers are using Wonderful, Wearable Wire for ideas to incorporate into commercial jewelry pieces. The variety of ideas in the book, coupled with the utility of the WigJig Olympus tool allow beginning, intermediate and experienced wire workers to produce professional wire designs quickly, easily, and consistently.

From the Back Cover:

Wonderful, Wearable Wire is the premier reference for beginning and experienced wire workers. In addition to over 180 wire designs made on the Olympus WigJig, it includes invaluable wire working tips, such as how to wrap beads in wire, how to make loops, coils, cages and scrolls, how to make clasps, hooks, catches, links ear wires, and much more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Helwig Industries Llc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0965078426
• ISBN 13: 9780965078429
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 172