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Jewelry WORKSHOP
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Story Booklace: an Intensive Three Day Journey into the Magic World of Jewelry Designs I
Instructor:
Nina Bagley
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Back by popular demand is the wonderful booklace design, this time executed in nothing less than sterling silver. This time around, too, the booklace can be worn either front or back, as both sides bear intricate designs: the front (or back, if you wish) is hammered with either a poem or a statement, and the back is adorned with a vintage brass bezel, filled with resin and then attached by eyelets to the booklace cover. Dangling from the bottom is one of my round sterling and resin charms, (one will be included in your kit), to be adorned with whatever bead or gemstone or trinket you wish. The pages within? Whatever you wish. This time, Ive left the pages blank, so that they can be filled at leisure with handwritten sentiments. You may wish to collage each page and then cover with protective mica before binding.
Well have the pleasure of a very relaxed but technique-filled three days to explore the following applications:
Metal word hammering (how to keep the lines straight, how to center the words on the silver)
Metal patina with liver of sulfur
Metal drilling and punching
Resin work (setting, curing)
Eyelet setting
Mica work
Wire bead drawing
Wire wrapping, including the Nina knot, my honeysuckle vine wrap, briolette wrapping, hook formation, and ribbon attachment
Copper mesh work (marginal)
cocoon fabric and wire wrapped bead formation
Stone, glass, and porcelain drilling
Bead stringing with crimping beads and beadalon wire
Thanks to the three day format, well have ample time for exploration of a variety of designs, as well as ample time for one on one instruction and many reviews of techniques.
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Click photos to zoom. Copyright Nina Bagley |
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Studio & Material Fee: |
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Material fee covers one 20 gauge sterling 1 x 1 pre-cut booklace cover (front and back), resin, one 12mm round sterling bezel from my collection, a couple of 20mm square vintage brass bezels, copper fine mesh, the use of diamond drill bits, shared torch and fuel and miscellaneous student supplies. |
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Student Supplies: |
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Students should bring the following supplies:
- Bent needle-nosed pliers
- Round needle-nosed pliers
- Wire snips (SMALL tools, for jewelry work not garage variety!)
- One 30 ft. roll of 19 strand original bright beadalon stringing wire (volcanoarts.biz)
- One package small crimping beads (volcanoarts.biz)
- Small hammer, and small bench block, if you have one, 1/16 size
- Cutting pad to prevent marring table surface and to absorb hammering
- Assorted junk chain; mismatched odd lengths are fine!
- 20 gauge wire; copper will be cheaper to experiment with, and volcanoarts.biz sells this but it has a copper coating; riogrande.com sells a l lb. Spool. I always use round, dead soft sterling silver, and for this I purchase from riogrande.com. Another place, without a minimum amount, is firemountaingems.com Amount? It is up to you, as to how much $ you want to invest. Perhaps 10 feet would be a good place to start, but you most likely will want more so you wont limited.
- 22 gauge sterling dead soft wire, also from firemountaingems.com. bring at least 10 feet.
- 26 gauge sterling dead soft wire, at least ten feet
- I also work extensively with 22 gauge sterling wire, for wrapping pearls and drawing bead tips; you may want to purchase some for yourself to bring and use up to you.
- One package of 1/8 short eyelets, and eyelet setting tool (available at Valley Ridge Art Studio)
- Fiskers hand drill, if you have one, (can be found at Michaels in the sewing section) as well as 2 small clamps (quick grip brand micro bar clamp, by American tool available at Home Depot or Lowes; Ill bring mine as well, so not to worry)
- An alternative that is easier on hands and metal is the crop-a-dile metal punch (creative memories brand), available online at Jo-anns Fabric and probably Michaels as well.
- Dremel, if you have one; Ill bring mine, and Ill provide use of diamond drill bits (stone and glass drilling); that being said, it would be beneficial for you to order your own, as they do break in class, and you wont have to wait your turn. I order the 2mm twisted ones from riogrande.com. Also! I fully advise getting yourself a universal chuck for your dremel, so that you dont have to change collets all the time for your different drill bits. These are available for about 7.00 at Lowes or Home Depot
- Metal ruler, utility knife (exacto), scissors, PVA* or matte medium glue, paper towels, cup for water, sm. paintbrush, toothpick to move things around in resin if you have tiny rhinestones, bring those too
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Optional Supplies: |
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Bead crimping pliers and alphabet stamps for metal (available at volcanoarts.biz), small butane torch and fuel (available at Valley Ridge Art Studio) -- remember, if flying, the torch must be empty. Paper ephemera (think small), one or two pages of old book text (dictionary, etc), vintage ribbon, optional, no wider than 1; enough to make into necklace length and to wrap for beads, vitage trinkets (beads, charms, findings such as small porcelain dolls (available at Valley Ridge Art Studio), lockets, pins, keys, etc), small amount of masking tape, small amount of mica (available at Valley Ridge Art Studio) (the 5 inch square piece will do) |
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ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION
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Program Details |
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Date: |
6/5/2009 to
6/7/2009 |
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9:30 AM-
4:30 PM | | | |
