October 10th, 2008 at 11:59am |
Papier-mâché literally means chewed paper. It’s a crafting technique that requires you to take a basic form (like a foil ball, a balloon, chicken wire form or just about anything else) and cover it with a mixture of paste and sculpting medium, usually newspaper. Papier-mâché is great for making lightweight sculptures and other items like [...]
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June 1st, 2008 at 12:56am |
Jewelry from polished or even unpolished rocks and pebbles is probably the oldest and most fascinating of all the crafts — and your involvement can be as simple or as extensive as you like, and almost as cheap or as costly as you decide.
You can go out and collect stones yourself or buy them at [...]
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May 28th, 2008 at 12:46pm |
Spacers
Shell jewelry often looks better when the shells are separated by spacers, which can be turned ivory, wooden beads, nuts or seeds, or mother-of-pearl.
Pieces of mother-of-pearl (see below) can be turned on a lathe or made by cutting oblongs of pearl shell 2.5cm (lin) long by 6mm (tin) wide.
Make up two square wooden boards, about [...]
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May 26th, 2008 at 2:46am |
Attractive and colourful jewelry can easily and cheaply be made from small pieces of acrylic which are available from most acrylic suppliers. The principle involved is the same as for all thermoplastics in that heat is applied to the material which can then be shaped and moulded to the desired design.
Shaping
It is necessary to heat [...]
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:57am |
Enamel is a form of glass and enamelling is the process of fusing it to metal with heat. The earliest known example of enamelled jewellery is a set of Mycenaean beads which date back to 1450BC. Constructed using the champleve method, they are made from blue enamel fused to decorative gold beads. During the 3rd [...]
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February 23rd, 2008 at 2:47am |
Your jewellery collection should be stored in separate compartments or boxes where possible to avoid scratching or tangling. Thin chains seem to have the ability to tie themselves in knots. You or your jeweller should check the settings and clasps of your jewellery from time to time: settings do become worn or bent and in [...]
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