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Self-adhesive finger pads, an alternative to thimbles used by tailors and garment designers, work great for beading and wirework, too. The pads stick to your fingertips and serve as a comfortable buffer against pokes from needles and wire.

I'm interested in doing silver clay jewelry. What's the best way to get started? I love marcasite. Can I put them in the silver clay and then heat or is it best to glue them in later. Would I use jewelry glue or slip?

Precious metal clay is a great way to create pure metal pieces without needing an expensive set up. You can start with the convenient Art Clay®...

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Avoid sticky situations by wiping the tips of your glue tubes with a lotion-infused tissue before closing the cap. The lotion keeps the cap from sticking.

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After spilling more than a few saucers of unstrung beads, I began using a new Saran Wrap product to cover my bowls when they're not in use. Quick Covers are plastic lids that look like small shower caps. They keep the beads in and the dust and cats out.

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When stringing beads onto Accu-Flex® professional-quality beading wire, place a rubber earring-stopper or Bead Stopper™ on one end to keep your beads from falling off while you're designing. Now, you can design with ease, and not worry about losing your design when you pick up your strand!

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When stringing long fringe or a continuous length of seed beads, make every 10th bead a slightly different color from the rest. This saves time since you can count the strung beads in a flash, and enhances the overall design.

Oh So CHARMing

Charms are favorite jewelry embellishments and can be used to create themes or personalize designs. Read on to learn more about these timeless pieces.

Wire Gauge to Inches and Millimeters Conversion

Conveniently determine the diameter, in inches or millimeters, of wire gauges from 10 to 38 gauge.

Wholesale or Consignment

What's the difference between selling jewelry wholesale versus selling on consignment? Jean Campbell, founding editor of Beadwork magazine explains: When you sell your jewelry wholesale, you sell it outright to a shop owner. They usually buy it from...

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Recycle your floss containers--use the spool to hold your thread and simply pull off the amount needed for your project. You don't even need scissors--the floss container has a built-in cutter!

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Add visual interest to wire creations by flattening or hammering your wire:

Albina Polyanskaya

Beading is my work, my business, my full-time career, my hobby, my...

American Craft Week

Sometimes big ideas stay just that and never take flight into something real and tangible. American Craft Week (ACW) is one of those big ideas that became real in a big way and five years after its inception, it just keeps growing. This year ACW...

Shaping the Future of Jewelry

Handmade Business magazine interviewed five amazing metal clay artists to get the scoop right from the horse's mouth on why metal clay jewelry has been exploding in popularity.

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String 3 beads and pass through the first beads going in the opposite direction. Pull tightly so that 2 and 3 beads form a 1 on top of bead 1. It looks like a triangle. Now pick up a bead and go through the last bead. Pick up another bead and go again into the last bead. Repeat for the desired length.

Amethyst Meaning and Properties

Despite being a common gemstone, amethyst is one of the most popular. This birthstone has an interesting Greek myth involving a nymph named Amethystos and the god Dionysus.

Graduation Day: Personalized Designs for Grads

Explore how to craft a memorable gift for the new graduate in your life.

I am having trouble with the tension on my bracelets/necklaces when doing the second side of them. No matter how much I pull the wire through the crimp bead there is always a gap between the crimp and beads. What can I do?

To ensure a professional finish when using crimp beads, thread the end of the beading wire back through one to two of the last beads strung so the...

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When making a project that has multiple wire-wrapped loops, such as chandelier earrings, make the first loop, then use a permanent marker to mark that place on the jaw of your round-nose pliers. Use this mark as a guide for making the rest of the loops the same size. Since the jaws of the pliers are metal, the mark wears off.

Swellegant!™ Metal Coatings and Patinas Q and A

Swellegant™ has some interesting uses, but sometimes it's best to hear it from the mouth of the creator itself. That's why Swellegant themselves sat down to answer some questions for you!
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