All Wired Up is an excellent book to introduce yourself to working with wire. This book will show you how to make your own fishhooks, headpins, chain links, clasps and shows you how to wrap a marble or irregular shaped stone ready to be hung from a cord. Diagrams are hand drawn but are clear and easy to understand. The introduction gives you some background on tools used. The gallery of colour pictures will inspire you to make some very elegant and elaborate findings. Each project can be made independantly to the next so it's not necessary to work from cover to cover.
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Wonderful, Wearable Wire is a wire design book of over 180 WigJig® Olympus designs (most can also be made on the Delphi). This 172-page book has 5 chapters consisting of Chains, Links & Clasps, Pendants & Earrings, Yokes & Pins, Suncatchers & Holiday Ornaments, and Wire Working Tips & Hints. Each design page has a template that indicates the number of pegs required as well as the exact location of each peg. Just put the jig on top of the template and insert the pegs and wrap the design. Book has color photos of design projects, plus 30 pages of wire working tips and hints (how to make wire cages, how to wire wrap beads, how to make pins, coils, scrolls and much more).Soft cover, spiral-bound, color photography, 172 pages, by Karen Ray with contributions from Gary and Marj Helwig.
Memory Wire Magic is a thin booklet that is produced by Beadalon, the manufacturers of the memory wire that we stock. Although there are only 15 pages, this booklet is filled with 20 ideas. Most projects that customers have asked about over the past few years are covered in this book, necklaces, bracelets, wine charms, decorations and even curtain tie backs!
If nothing else, this booklet will give you a good start to making memory wire jewellery and probably fuel ideas for further projects.
Project Book Two is written specifically for the WigJig Delphi (most designs can also be made on the Olympus/Olympus-Lite with minor modifications). It includes beginning to advanced earring, bracelet and necklace projects. The innovative technique for double-caged beads and the "jigsaw puzzle" link bracelet are "must see" designs. Soft cover, spiral-bound, color cover, black-and-white illustrations, 35 pages, by Diane Trepanier.
Project Book Four has added a new dimension to WigJig wire designs - the softness of beads strung on Soft Flex. These WigJig Delphi designs (most can also be made on the Olympus/Olympus-Lite) include beginning to advanced wire projects. The gorgeous Celtic Knot Choker, Bejeweled Bracelet, and Wire Charm Bracelet are superb.Soft cover, spiral-bound, color cover, black-and-white illustrations, 35 pages, by Lilli Brennan, Karen Ray, and S. Helwig.
Great Wire Jewellery is a book filled with projects on making spool knitted and Viking knitted chains. Also, great ideas on making chains from jump rings including the Single and Double Flower Chains, Flat Chain Mail, Round Chain Mail, and Open Round Chain Mail, Snake Chain, Fox Tail, and more. Excellent instructions, with colour photography of the projects. Hard cover, 60 pages, by Irene From Peterson.