Creating Wooden Jewelry: 24 Skill-Building Projects and Techniques

by Sarah King

Overview

The first-ever comprehensive guide to creating wooden jewelry, learn and practice several woodworking skills - including jointing, turning, steaming, polishing, staining, painting, beveling, inlaying, and more - to discover a brand new art perspective! Combining wood with other media, from silver to silicon, you’ll learn 10 techniques and create 14 beautiful and accessible jewelry projects that are fresh and modern, going beyond metal. Author and renowned artist jeweler Sarah King works with materials, form, and structure to make sculptural, contemporary, and feminine jewelry. Her work has been sold in department stores, design stores, boutiques, and galleries, including Barney’s, Liberty of London, The Conran Shop, and more. She has won many awards, such as the Association of Contemporary Jewelry Prize, and is one of only 50 international contemporary jewelers invited to show at the LOOT exhibition at the New York Museum of Arts and Design. With Creating Wooden Jewelry, you’ll learn from one of the best to understand everything you need to know to create stunning wooden jewelry, as well as a rotating cast of talented project guests, such as Inni Parnanen, Terhi Tolvanen, Beppe Kessler, and Lina Peterson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497100015
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/10/2019
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,122,115
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sarah King is an artist jeweler who works with materials, form and structure to make sculptural, contemporary, yet feminine jewelry. Her work has sold in department stores, design stores, boutiques and galleries, including Barneys, Jeweler's Work Gallery, Tate Modern shop, Liberty of London, The Conran Shop, Aram Gallery, Ally Capellino, The Cross, and EC One. Her one-off pieces are in public collections in the UK, USA, and Germany. She has won many awards such as the Association of Contemporary Jewelry Prize, and features in numerous books on contemporary jewelry. Sarah is one of only 50 international contemporary jewelers invited to show at the LOOT exhibition at the New York Museum of Arts and Design. Sarah teaches bespoke, specialist jewelry classes in her central London studio.

Editorial Reviews

11/04/2019

King, a jeweler, debuts with an attractive guide to making stylish wooden jewelry. She traces wooden jewelry’s popularity back to the 1970s, when people questioned “the nature of... jewelry as a symbol of status and wealth.” To bring the field up-to-date with modern concerns about sustainability, she includes information on obtaining wood locally, suggesting cork as a resource to use, and wooden spoons as items that can be recycled. The projects, each explained via step-by-step photographs laid out in numbered grids, progress from basic to more difficult. Going in order, one can begin by learning to use a piercing saw and a handheld drill to make the “Walnut Squiggle Pendant,” and end by using an acid bath, ebonizing solution, and easy solder paste to make the “Oak Strata Necklace.” King occasionally suggests alternative materials, as in the “Twisted Willow and Cane Sets,” so those without the “patience to carefully coax willow into smaller circles” may instead opt “for a cane version of this design that is much easier to make.” Her well-appointed primer should find an audience both with woodworkers drawn to jewelry, and with jewelers seeking a new medium. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

Creating Wooden Jewelry is especially and specifically for those woodworkers who want to extend their practice to jewelry, as well as those who want to learn woodworking skills, but find furniture too intimidating or too large, and want an alternative to smaller projects like bowls and boxes.

Midwest Book Review

Those with an interest in jewelry making—particularly on the artisanship level—will appreciate its projects and insights into the medium of wood.

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Those with an interest in jewelry making—particularly on the artisanship level—will appreciate its projects and insights into the medium of wood.

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