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Making Connections: A Handbook of Cold Joins for Jewelers and Mixed-Media Artists | 
| Author: Susan Lenart Kazmer
Publisher: Interweave Press
Category: Book
List Price: $48.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 6503
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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Making Connections...Love this book!! October 27, 2008
This book is really easy to follow and understand. The pictures are fabulous and the directions are clear. I highly recommend it!!
Best Jewellery book I've seen October 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This would have to be the best jewellery book I've come across for making jewellery using found objects. The photos are so inspiring. The sketches showing the techniques are very good and easy to understand too.I love Susan's work and there is so much of it to see in this book. It's the next best thing to being able to take one of her classes, which I hope to do one day. I've utilized lots of the techniques in the book but still been able to retain my own style. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who likes unique jewellery.
Collector's Item October 21, 2008
Susan's book is an absolute "must have" for anyone who enjoys working with metal and or beads
as well as the collectible "coffee table" topper!
There's a lot to be learned about cold joins and other techniques. Much information is given along
with unsual and very creative pairing of various materials.
For me, the book is a treasure trove of beautifully photographed works of art along with many
inspirational ideas.....Bravo!!!
Full of Little Treasures October 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Susan Lenart Kazmer's, "Making Connections" is not only a comprehensive treatment of cold joins, it's also a beautiful book to look at. Mixing simple, straightforward technical information with lovely photography and drawings, Kazmer's book is a rare find - a treat for the eyes and the mind.
The tone is set at the book's beginning with a chapter on the "Alchemy of Susan Lenart Kazmer." An innovative artist using recycled and altered materials, Kazmer focuses on the process rather than the outcome. A conceptual artist, Kazmer's jewelry may not seem beautiful to some, but that's not the point, she creates to elicit a response. I would beg to differ with those who question the beauty of her work and so will you after you see this book.
Nine chapters cover materials, tools and every cold join you can imagine. Chapters detail wire attachments; staples, tabs and prongs; rivets, hinges and attachments with movement just to name a few. I'm particularly inspired by the chapter on staples, tabs and prongs seeing new ways to use sheet metal with the glass cabachons I make. The tips sprinkled throughout the book are insightful and feel like a treasure she's left for you to discover.
If you're serious about learning cold joins or if you're serious about jewelry, Kazmer's book wins on both. You'll find yourself looking through it again and again feeling like you're uncovering another little piece of treasure.
Artistically Stimulating! October 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a huge collection of metalsmithing and jewelry design books, but this is one of my favorites...a book I return to again and again for inspiration when my artistic muse is being less than cooperative! The illustrations are excellent as is the photo gallery of works by other artists. For those who dislike or are uncomfortable with soldering, this book on cold connections is invaluable. Susan has an eye for taking objects that would otherwise be discarded as refuse and transforming them into works of art. This is commendable in a wasteful world of disposables. Kudos to Susan on a very well written and informative book!
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