Handmade bracelets don't have to look homemade — and here's the proof! These designs for 100 different bracelets offer a style for every taste and skill level. Anyone can create eye-catching jewelry by following these full-color, step-by-step instructions and patterns. Knotted, woven, and threaded, the beautiful bracelets incorporate string, beads, pearls, charms, leather, and other elements that can be blended to form unique and personal statements. They make great gifts, too! Each of the bracelets is rated according to complexity, from lots of quick and easy projects to ones that take more practice and others that require advanced skills. If you're new to jewelry-making, you can start out with the simpler patterns and work your way up to the more sophisticated models. A section with basic instructions and diagrams will get you started, and helpful lists outline the tools and accessories you'll need to create chic bracelets for you and your friends.

Designs for 100 different bracelets offer a style for every taste and level of skill. Includes full-color, step-by-step instructions and patterns for unique knotted, woven, and threaded jewelry.

Offers instructions on creating different types of bracelets from different types of materials, including leather, metal, and wood.

For gorgeous, make-'em-yourself bracelets, it's a wrap There's something about ribbon - its silky sheen, its yummy elegance, its magical powers. What magic, you ask? Ribbon has the power to transform everyday plastic bracelets into shimmering designer bangles. Gorgeous! With Ribbon Bangles, anyone can make their own beautiful wrapped bracelets. The book details step-by-step directions for all kinds of knotting, twisting, and wrapping techniques. Combine them to make seven unique bangle designs, from crisscrossing spirals to vibrant swirls. We provide the sturdy, blank plastic bracelets, a bright array of ribbon, and a bottle of glue to hold it all together - everything you need to make a wardrobe of fashionable bangles. Wear a different one every day of the school week, or stack 'em all at once for major impact. It all adds up to a basic craft with a big reward. But don't let the ease of this activity fool you. Ribbon bangles may be simple, but the're totally addictive. And we're thrilled to be all wrapped up in them.

Features 24 beaded rope designs. From dainty to heavy and from simple to outrageously textured, this title contains beautiful and wearable necklace, lariat, bangle and bracelet projects that utilise such popular stitch techniques as spiral rope, peyote and oglala.

"The Ghysels collection of ethnic jewellery is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive. It is the culmination of a passionate quest of over forty years for aesthetic beauty and authenticity. As such, it represents an invaluable repository of research, taste and discernment. We enthusiastically pursue our journey through the twists and turns of the Ghysels' wealth of adornments. After having explored the universe of rings and earrings in two prior books in this series, we now have the pleasure of discovering the universe of bracelets. These mainly unpublished bracelets - about 1200 of them - have been chosen piece by piece with great love and exquisite taste. They form a group of exceptional quality that displays a great variety of forms." "Just as with rings and earrings, bracelets and anklets punctuate the phases of one's life. Small rings, which tinkle with the least movement, preserve children from evil sprits in the Near East. All self-respecting Jewish brides from Sana'a wear several pairs of bracelets with gossamer filigree. In order to ensure abundant progeny, a Bengal bride will be given a bracelet made from a shell. A flat ivory bracelet rewards a Sudanese elephant hunter of the Dinka tribe for his bravery. And, when undertaking their final journey, both men and women surround themselves one last time with bracelets, such as the jade ones found in Chinese tombs." "The author guides us on a continent-by-continent tour, explaining the historic and cultural contexts in which these ethnic bracelets originated. Captions inform us of materials, dimensions and uses. A glossary of technical terms, maps and an index round off the descriptive information."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Great for beginners, but with inspirational ideas for more experience jewellery makers, this book has bracelets for everyone!