The tassel necklace is long, about 30 inches, and is the perfect accessory for your flapper. Because it’s so long, you can easily slip it over your head, so no clasp is require. In this project, I give you general guidelines rather than hard fast directions, so enjoy making your personalized creation.
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The 1960s gave birth to one unlikely icon, the hippie. You could get a feel for the 1960s by using peace symbols, big flowers, or zodiac symbols. I chose to go with the sun to bring out the feel of the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
Tools and Materials
Flat-nose pliers Round-nose pliers Wire cutters
6 1.5-inch [...]
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Many people are fascinated with history. Whether it’s their own genealogical history, that of their town, or of ancient cultures across the world, many people want to feel a connection with the past. You can blend your jewelry-making hobby with an interest in history. Current trends in jewelry design use ancient components (like stones, beads, [...]
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A cane is a rod that’s made up two or more colors of clay. When the clay is cut crosswise, a multi-colored design is revealed. Canes are the basic components of the clay, male fiori—style bead. Mille fiori means a thousand flowers. These beads are known for their stunning multitude of patterns and colors.
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Birthday parties, sleepovers, or even any random winter afternoon is a great time to organize a jewelry-making party for kids. Both girls and boys of all ages enjoy making jewelry. Of course, the kind of projects you choose will vary with their ages.
The biggest challenge with kids is to keep it simple. Here are my [...]
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Brooches of the Twentieth Century
Platinum became a popular jewellery material in the early 1900s. The Edwardian used its pale colour to offset delicate shapes and the light hues of diamonds, pearls, peridots and aquamarines. In the early 1920s Cartier set jewellery with carved coloured gems to create a multicoloured effect often described as ‘fruit salad’. [...]
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Jewellery has been used for personal adornment, at least among the upper classes, for centuries. Styles and types have always gone in and out of vogue, leaving modern collectors with an enormous variety from which to choose.
The value of jewellry depends on several factors, ranging from the current fashions to the precious metals and gemstones [...]
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Many people jump into the process of making jewelry and take shortcuts that only hurt them in the long run. Maybe they buy tools and supplies that don’t give them the results they’re looking for. Or they don’t treat their new tools right. Or perhaps they’re worried that their great new “original” design will make [...]
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We find enjoyment, it is true, in the agreeable green of grass and leaves, but incomparably greater is the pleasure of beholding an emerald; for its green is the most satisfying of all,” so Pliny extolled the aristocratic chieftain of the beryl family. Nevertheless, the reader has the feeling that even Pliny, despite his telling [...]
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A few years ago a hitherto unknown and unusually interesting occurrence was discovered in Tanzania supplying green, so-called prase, opal, which owes its color to a small nickel content derived from weathered serpentine. Since the opal here, as in all the other localities, crops out relatively near the earth’s surface in fairly easily workable rocks, [...]
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