Creating Jewellery in Wood

 

In 2019 Sarah King published her first book Creating Jewellery in Wood published by Fil Rouge Press in the UK and available to buy from Search Press or Amazon. The USA version entitled Creating Wooden Jewelry is published by Fox Chapel Publishing and is available on Amazon US. There is a German edition entitled Kreativer Schmuck Aus Holz.

  • Introduction to wood as a contemporary jewellery medium 

  • Suitable for beginners or professionals 

  • Step by step imaginative + contemporary jewellery projects 

  • Section on shaping  (carving woods of differing hardness and thicknesses, turning, carving cork, curving veneers, lasercutting) 

  • Section on Constructing (cold connections, linking mechanisms, laminating, riveting, making findings, threading, setting) 

  • Section on surface techniques (silver & pearl inlay, painting + staining, gilding, electroforming, sandblasting, Shou Sugi Ban)  

  • Profiles of 4 Studio Jewellers using wood (Inni Parnanen, Terhi Tolvenan, Beppe Kessler and Lina Peterson) 

  • Taking a sustainable approach  

  • Information on sourcing tools and materials 

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