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Jewelry Making

Category: <span>Jewelry Making</span>

Make jewelry at home for special occasions or to wear every day. Explore the best tools and techniques for making jewelry with beads, resin, wire, chain, stones and more.

Browse through our jewelry projects and inspiration.

Handmade BraceletsHandmade Necklaces

Inspiring Jewelry Artists

Vintage poodle necklace

Spotlight: Melinda Hutton, Recycled Jewelry Artist

Loving the improvisation of finding ways to make disparate elements work together to become a cohesive whole, Melinda Hutton has found her happy place with Closures-Remnants. She combines old buttons...

Melanie Brauner Dogwood earrings

Spotlight: Melanie Brauner, Metalsmith and Papermaker

Melanie Brauner was at home with the arts at an early age. Her adaptive approach to circumstances encouraged her to create in entirely new ways. The result is a blending...

Black, gold and pearl necklace

Spotlight: Valerie Ostenak, Artist and Designer

What do metalsmithing and painting have in common? Valerie Ostenak, an artist who releases the physical into her metal work and the emotional into her painting. Inspired by the natural...

More Jewelry Making

Samples of 3 tubular herringbone ropes

How to Make Tubular Herringbone Beaded Jewelry

Tubular Herringbone (sometimes called Ndebele) stitch creates sinuous beaded ropes that await your creativity to design bracelets, necklaces and more. It can be a fussy stitch to get started, but…
Gemstone Embellished Right Angle Weave Bracelets

Embellished Right Angle Weave Jewelry

Starting with two size 11 seed beads per side, it’s easy to stitch a base of right angle weave in comfortable proportions for Gemstone Embellished Right Angle Weave Jewelry.
Copper wire mixed gemstone wire wrapped pendant

How to Make a Wire Wrapped Pendant: Beginner Tutorial

A simple spool of wire has so much potential! Pair it with a beautiful stone or five, and you can create a one-of-a-kind pendant to hang on a necklace chain.…
Cellini Spiral Detail

Peyote Stitch Cellini Spiral Basics

Peyote-Stitched Cellini Spiral looks really complicated, but it’s just a glorified peyote rope. The stitch is even count tubular peyote with a step up. It’s the change in bead sizes…
Dangling pearl earrings

Two Ways to Make Dangling Gemstone Earrings

For her wedding, my daughter wanted "new" pearl earrings to coordinate with the "old" pearl strands she planned to wear around her neck and in her hair. It meant a…
Bead Embroidered Flower Brooch

How to Bead Embroidery – Chardel Blaine Paints with Beads

I like to create just about anything if it involves a needle and thread. For me, bead embroidery is about painting, but I use beads as my palette. Mostly, I…
Spinner I

Spotlight: Gabriela Nirino, Textile Artist

Gabriela Nirino is a self-described "textile nerd" who teaches at 3 universities and works in studios in Buenos Aires and Seattle. She is an accomplished weaver who pushes the boundaries…
Pat Herkal

Spotlight: Pat Herkal, Bead and Fiber Artist

Pat Herkal occupies her head and hands every day with beads and thread. Whimsy, color and the natural world inspire her work. Mixing beads, shells, stones, and found objects -…
PharEwings The Beast necklace

Spotlight: Pharewings, Chainmaille Artist

Phare's first encounter with chainmaille was being a chainmaille bikini model, and then she found her calling. A creative spirit across many mediums, she is now a full-time chainmaille artist…

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