Jewelry

How To: Tie Reversed Half Hitches

Reversed Half Hitches, Larks Head Sennits or chains (can be made in several different ways) They can be used as bracelets, belts, or just for decoration. Very easy to make, can be used as a Survival bracelet or Friendship bracelet. Good for beginners :)

How To: Tie a Square Knot with Eight Strings

Square knot variations with eight strings. This is easy to make and looks good. You only need to know a square knot. With this macrame pattern you can make: belt, band, bracelet, strap for guitar or bag

How To: DIY Beaded Wrap Bracelet with Square Knot and Button Clasp

This will show you an easy and quick way to make a Wrap Bracelet using Square Knot, Beads and Button Clasp. This bracelet wraps around your wrist two times. Make your own Chan Luu Style wrap bracelet with Square Knot! Great bracelet for beginners!

How To: Make a Friendship Bracelet with Hearts

Learn another way how to make a friendship bracelet with hearts. Great gift for Valentine's Day! You need: 8 strands of embroidery floss, 40 inches long..

How To: Tie four basic knots in jewelry design

To tie the overhand knot, make a loop and pass one end of the string through the loop and tighten by pulling both ends. To tie a double overhand knot, make a loop and pass one end of the string through the loop twice before pulling both ends to tighten the knot. To tie a surgeon's knot, take the left string and bring it over and around the right string twice. Then take the right string over and around the left string and pull both ends to tighten, leaving a complete loop of string below the k...

How To: DIY Easy Square Knot Bracelet with Beads

Easy Square Knot Bracelet with beaded lines. To make this bracelet you only need to know how to make a square knot. This is a good bracelet for beginners in macrame.

How To: DIY Wavy Herringbone Bracelet

How to Make a Wavy Herringbone Bracelet in two colors with a bead. If you look closely in this bracelet you can see hearts, fishes, leaves, eye and herringbone :)) in the reality I don't know how to call it, but anyways I hope it will be useful for you.

How To: Celtic Style Macrame Bracelet

How to Make Macrame Bracelet in Celtic style. Looks a bit complicated, it's probably not for beginners, but I hope that it will be useful :)

How To: 3D Wavy Spiral Bracelet with Beads - Tutorial

Make 3D Wavy Spiral Bracelet with beads. In this style you can make a necklace, just make it longer.

How To: Wrap a Stone - Easy Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to wrap a Stone easily (Make Cabochon using Macrame knots). With this style you can make your own amulets, pendants or necklaces, also you can wrap a coins or anything else. It's easy to make and suitable for kids and beginners. I hope you will find this helpful!

How To: Make a Braided Macrame Friendship Bracelet That Looks Nice on Both Sides

You could do this bracelet in all sorts of fun color combinations, or all in one color and it would be nice either way. These bracelets would make great easy gifts for friends, as well or This would make for a great friendship bracelet. You can use this bracelet from both sides. Fits to men and women. Use Mouline threads.

How To: Join metal jewelry pieces together without using solder

You can fuse metal together without having to solder it. By using a butane torch, you can heat your pieces of metal until they are almost but not quite melted. Once they reach this flashpoint, you can easily fuse the pieces together.

How To: Pierce & saw a shape out of a metal sheet for jewelry

Jewelry making tips from Addie Kidd. This video gives a step by step detailed guide on how to pierce a piece of metal for jewelry making, using a saw and lubricant. This video shows Addie putting a piece of metal that she has a design drawn on, onto a saw blade and cutting it out, using a synthetic lubricant to keep the saw flowing (you can use bee's wax instead). In this video Addie threads the metal onto a saw blade and uses this to cut out a design she has designed and sawing around to mak...

How To: Make an ornamental kanzashi hairpin out of a chopstick

A kanzashi, as shown in this how-to video, is an ornamental hair pin used in Chinese and Japanese hair styles. While they're more of a traditional piece, they're still commonly worn by brides and as part of a kimono costume (for geishas). This video tutorial shows a method of making this beautiful piece yourself out of any chopstick. You will need a chopstick, 10cm of wire, a charm, a big bead, two split rings, 3cm of chain, a 5mm x 2cm scrap of cloth, a pair of nippers, a pair of pliers, a k...

How To: Colorful Rainbow Bracelet Tutorial

How to make a Striped Macrame Rainbow bracelet. This bracelet looks good from both sides and its easy to make.

How To: Macrame Flower Earrings Tutorial

How to make a nice macrame flower earrings (Circular flower tutorial). These earrings look lovely and they are not so hard to make.

How To: Make a Easy Macrame Criss-Cross Bracelet

How to Make a Easy Macrame Criss-Cross Bracelet with Beads. It's simple to make and looks really cool and fun :) Even people who just found out about macrame can make this bracelet!

How To: Make a Macrame Turtle

How to make a knotted Turtle, Tortoise, Tortue, Tortuga, Tartaruga.. You can use this turtle as a keychain, pendant in necklace, earrings etc..

How To: Make HEMP LEAF (DIY)

How to make Macrame leaf. Looks like a hemp leafs.

How To: make Macrame Owl

Macrame Owl - Decoration for keys / key ring or necklace / How to / DIY Video: .

How To: Add a nickel-free gunmetal finish to raw brass filigree

Gunmetal gray is one of the coolest, most biker-chic finishes out there when it comes to jewelry making. If you enjoy working with filigree pieces in your bracelets and necklaces, why not make them less granny fantastic and more urban chic by adding a nickel-free gunmetal finish?

How To: Make gold stone stringers by casing it in clear glass

These gold stone stringers look like glistening incense sticks and are incredibly beautiful. Check out this jewelry making tutorial to learn how to turn gold stone lumps in blue and an orangey yellow into long sticks, or stringers, made of these melted lumps.

How To: Attach a pendant to an earring hook easily

What is the absolute, most basic thing you need to know in order to asemble an earring? Attaching the earring to its earring hook, of course. By learning how to do this, you'll be able to create a neverending host of funky earrings, from cool guitar pick earrings to drop pendant earrings.

How To: Fold a ring out of a one dollar bill

In this video, we learn how to fold a ring out of a one dollar bill. First, fold the white edges in at the top and the bottom. Next, fold it in half and then spin it around 180 degrees. Next, fold it in half again, then take the white edge on the right side and fold it down until you can see the 1. now, make a backwards "L" shape and fold it back down, then curl it up. Now fold the L underneath and curl the extra part underneath the 1. Now, place this on your hand and you can wear it as a ring!

How To: Make a handforged silver clasp

Jessica VanDen shows us how to make a hand forged silver clasp in this video. Start off with two pieces of sterling silver wire. Now make a simple S clasp with pliers. Then grasp the wire at the thick end and wrap it around until the long piece meets the curve you made. Next, wrap a curve around the end of the wire with pliers to make the clasp. You will need to put the chain through it to attach it. Make sure your chain can fit through the loop that you have made. Now you're finished and mak...

How To: Color copper metal with color pencils for jewelry

It seems contrary to what you instinctually believe is true, but you can actually mix two modes of art - coloring pencils and metal from jewelry making - and fuse them into one work of jewelry.

How To: Create a wire wrap Tree of Life pendant

As seen in "Avatar" (sort of), the Tree of Life represents all the connections we have to one another as life forms, past, present, and future. It's really quite a deep concept, and is one explored in a beauteous way in this wire wrapping project.

How To: Make a beaded wire mandala for meditation or jewelry

A wire mandala is basically a wire halo of sorts, meant as a geometric configuration which contains the image of a deity. For some, a wire mandala can be used for meditation and stress relief, while for others it is a beautiful religious pendant that can be attached to earring clasps and chains to make necklaces.

How To: Craft a beaded peace sign pendant for jewelry

Wearing a peace sign pendant is the perfect way to celebrate the harmony and integration of nations occuring right now at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. While known as soccer's clash of nations, the World Cup also presents a way for disparate countries to play together on a fair, comraderie-filled basis.

How To: Make a polymer clay lollipop for a doll & dollhouse

Are you a dollhouse junkie? Do you own the house, the clothes, and all the dollhouse accessories? That might be fine, but do you have a doll-sized lollipop? Didn't think so. In this tutorial, learn how to make a miniature sized lollipop out of polymer clay, a perfect size to fit your favorite dolls!

How To: Macrame a cool choker necklace

In order to make a macramv© choker necklace, you will need the following: string, scissors, and beads.

How To: Make DIY guitar pick earrings

In this video you learn to make earrings out of guitar picks. You will need round nose and regular pliers, wire cutters, 2 regular picks, bead reamer, earring hooks, jump rings, and long silver strands. Use the bead reamer to make a nice clean hole on the top edge of the guitar pick. Use the jump ring through the hole you just made to attach the silver strand. This makes the earrings dangle. On the other end of the silver strand connect the earring hook with another jump ring. This completes ...

How To: Make cute mini polymer clay radish earrings

MsKreant teaches viewers how to create cute radish earrings with polymer clay! Use Sculpey baked clay in red, white, and two different greens for the leaves. Roll each color into tiny balls. First, take the red ball of clay and put the white ball of clay next to it. Put them together and pull together. Make the white part pointy. Next, make and indent at the top for the leaves with a bamboo skewer. Next roll your two colors of green into long spaghetti strips. Put the two together and flatten...

How To: Make dichroic glass pendants with Fantasy Film & opals

Learn how to make homemade pendants! It's quite the process, involving a piece of glass (frosted glass with bevel edges is best), Fantasy Film, opals for embossing enamels, and a pool of hot glue. If you want to learn how to make dichroic carnival glass pendants with Fantasy Film and colored opals, then just check out this video tutorial.

How To: Make fake jewels using silicone and clear resin

You don't have to spend a lot of money on jewelry, crystals and pendants. In this video from Tap Plastics, you'll learn how to use their brands of Platinum Silicone and Clear Lite Casting Resin to create artificial jewelry. It won't fool the pros on a close examination, but it can still be impressive-looking stuff at a fraction of the cost of real jewelry.

How To: Snap set a six prong pendant

One important part of jewelery making involves properly setting stones. This jewelry how-to video demonstrates the proper way to snap set a six prong pendant. Begin with your stone flat face down on a surface, with your casting in hand gently press the setting down over the gem stone. You will feel it snap into place. To tighten and secure that your setting is in place use needle nose pliers.

How To: Attach a jewelry hook

One important part of jewelery making involves properly attaching hooks. This jewelry how-to video demonstrates the proper way to attach a hook, use it for making earing, bracelets or charms. Begin by holding the wire firmly in one hand. Using the chain nose pliers gently twist the ring at the end of the hook until it is open. Then place the completed piece of jewelry and secure it in place.

How To: Condition or knead polymer clay before molding jewelry

Art Jewelry Magazine associate editor Jill Erickson shows you a couple of ways to condition polymer clay. Conditioning, or kneading, is essential to drive out air bubbles and to better prepare clay for molding. Learn how to condition or knead polymer clay before molding or sculpting by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.

How To: Set a stone or jewel into a bezel for jewelry

In part one of her three part instructional video series on setting a cabochon in a bezel, Art Jewelry Magazine associate editor Addie Kidd shows you how to adjust your bezel's height to match your cabochon. This technique is essential for making pendants or any jewelry with a large stone centerpiece. Learn how to set a stone or jewel cabochon by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.

How To: Forge and shape sterling silver ear wire findings

Art Jewelry Magazine associate editor Jill Erickson shows you a quick way to forge your own ear wires. Learn how to use round nose pliers and a hammer to bend and shape professional looking ear wire findings.