The Art of Metal Clay by Sherri Haab
A comprehensive introduction to the medium designed specifically for crafters and jewellery makers, detailing the essentials of working, firing and finishing metal clay to create beautiful jewellery and decorative objects. Artist and instructor Sherri Haab demonstrates metal clay's remarkable versatility, showing how it can be textured, moulded, carved and sculpted to create gorgeous beads, bracelets, pendants, earrings, rings and other jewellery settings, and boxes and vessels. She also reveals how to combine metal clay with polymer clay, glass and epoxy resin to create unique mixed-media pieces. Developed in Japan in the early 1990s, metal clay represents a dramatic development in the handling of precious metals for jewellery making. Metal clay consists of microscopic particles of silver or gold suspended in a pliable organic binder that can be worked with the hands and simple household tools, eliminating the need for difficult metalworking processes such as soldering, hammering and cutting. When metal clay is fired, the binder burns away and the metal particles fuse into pure (0.999) metal.Sherri Haab is a bestselling and award-winning author of crafts books for both adults and kids, with more than 30 titles published. She also has a reputation as an innovative product developer, with an image transfer medium, an electroforming device, and an environmentally safe line of etching products to her credit. As the author of several jewelry technique books for adults, she has led jewelry making workshops all over the country. Sherri's work has been widely published in several jewelry making and kids' magazines, and she's appeared on many crafts TV shows, including JewelryTV (JTV), Jewelry Making with Jackie Guerra (DIY), and Beads, Baubles & Jewels (PBS).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823003679 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823003671 |
| Title | The Art of Metal Clay |
| Author | Sherri Haab |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications |
| Year published | 2003-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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