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Making Connections: A Handbook of Cold Joins for Jewelers and Mixed-Media Artists | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Lenart Kazmer
Publisher: Interweave Press
Category: Book
List Price: $48.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 13941
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0979840708
Dewey Decimal Number: 739
EAN: 9780979840708
ASIN: 0979840708
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
Featuring a wide variety of cold-join techniques from the commonly used to the amazingly new, this beautiful handbook is the first on cold connections and combines the art of jewelry making with modern craft assemblage, which metal workers can use to spark creativity and look at their craft in new, innovative ways. Proving everyday found objects—staples, rivets, fibers, resins—can be used to make beautiful jewelry, sculpture, or mixed media, this guide explains how to craft original works with just about anything. Each chapter offers a new technique with a different attaching method along with descriptive sketches showing the connecting layers. This handy crafter’s resource showcases a gallery of 23 top jewelry artists and offers insights, philosophies, and techniques as well as pages of creative musings and stunning photos of marionettes and jewelry.
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 few things to pick up January 6, 2009
I find this book poor in ideas - if you already work with mixed media- and to tell the truth I was a little disappointed. I expected a book full of inventions and I found pages on rivets- not so innovator. the real good new for me are some pictures of eric silva's work; I didn't know him and he remind me how incredibly unique american jewellery can be.
 Lots of information, but a bit cluttered January 4, 2009
This book contains masses of information for the crafter, mixed media artist and jewellery maker. There is almost too much to take in and I have had to go back to it several times in an attempt to take it all in.
The artists style is amazing and the info contained is all really useful stuff. However, the layout is a bit cluttered and there is almost a bit too much for one book. A bit more editing and perhaps a clearer layout would have helped a lot.
Despite that, it is a wealth of interesting and useful information and definately worth having.
 Wonderful Resource December 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wanting to get back into jewelry making after a long hiatus (okay, my daughter's entire life from birth to 18, if you must know), I decided on this volume to help me, both for inspiration and instruction. I was not disappointed. Not only are the artist's own constructions amazing, but she gives very straightforward directions on how to create the various joins. Reading it was like having one of my former instructors right by my side, telling me just how to fabricate a rivet or hinge. (And I did have some awesome instructors.) I like that she included mixed media work by other artists as well. I don't know how a beginner might view the book, but I would still recommend it as a book that you could refer to after you learned a technique in a fabrication class.
A superb book of pictures and explanations....a great value and read! December 22, 2008
I couldn't wait to get this book from Amazon. It was definitely worth the wait! Absolutely great information, instructions and pictures...giving the reader/artist tremendous ideas. I can't wait to get rolling. Thank you to the artist/creator for providing it to us all.
Fabulous Book December 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fabulous book --- part museum, part inspiration, part instruction, and all beautiful. If you are tempted to get it, then by all means follow through. You will not regret it.
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