title: Design Sourcebook: Jewellery
author:  David Watkins 
description: The Complete Book of Jewelry Making is a beautifully illustrated guide to jewelry-making techniques. In content it is similar to Jinks McGrath's The Encyclopedia of Jewelry-Making Techniques (LJ 11/1/95) with the addition of a very useful chapter on the properties of metals (gold and silver) and seven step-by-step projects for contemporary jewelry. When the techniques have been mastered, it is time for Jewellery: Design Sourcebook, a gallery of photographs of jewelry as art featuring the creations of over 75 contemporary artists. From a practical standpoint most of these are unwearable, but this is a rather fascinating look at the art jewelry of today. Both of these books are for larger or specialized arts and crafts collections. <BR>Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  This edition first published in the UK and USA in 2020 by
  
  Watkins, an imprint of Watkins Media Limited
  
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  Design and typography copyright © Watkins Media Limited 2020
  
  Text copyright © Ben Aldridge 2020
  
  The author asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
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  Printed and bound in the UK by TL International
  
  A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
  
  ISBN: 978-1-78678-342-4
  
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