What's New
Forthcoming books and other news from Kalmbach Books
Published: June 28, 2008
Titles just released in Kalmbach's Jewelry-Making and Beading Line
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Jewelry for the New Romantic
Designer Nealay Patel has a knack for taking traditional looks and updating them for today’s fashions. In Jewelry for the New Romantic, Patel shows you how to create 10 lacy yet edgy necklace, bracelet, and earring sets that weave crystals and beads together on simple beading wire.
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The Absolute Beginners Guide: Making Metal Clay Jewelry
Metal clay is revolutionizing jewelry making, and the interest in the material and its accompanying techniques are growing. Now is a perfect time to introduce readers to metal clay with this signature series that focuses on successful results.
The third book in the popular Absolute Beginners Guide series, Making Metal Clay Jewelry follows the same signature format as its predecessors by positioning readers to learn by doing. Author Cindy Thomas Pankopf keeps in mind that beginners want to keep investment minimal so all projects use simple, budget-friendly techniques and require no kiln.
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Creative Chain Mail Jewelry
Creative Chain Mail Jewelry features over 25 chain mail projects from Bead&Button and Art Jewelry magazines. This book is organized from easy to challenging, and jewelry makers of all skill levels will find many appealing projects to choose from. The projects employ a broad assortment of jump rings, traditional techniques and other materials to achieve modern looks. Easy projects focus on opening and closing jump rings, stringing and crimping, while a more advanced project requires soldering . The book is organized from easy to challenging for progressive practice.
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Jewelry Designs from Nature
Heather reveals her creative process and guides readers through 30 lovely bracelet, necklace and earring projects that feature her beads and the beads of other well-known artists. Simple techniques such as stringing, wirework, and bead stitching are explained with clear step-by-step directions. Readers will use this view into artist Heather Power’s creative process to build a solid foundation in the basics of jewelry design. Drawing on the natural world, Heather shows readers how to balance color, texture, and scale to create 30 projects. Pieces are designed with simple techniques, chain, wire, findings, crystals, seed beads, and art beads in standard sizes.
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Spotlight on Wire
Wire jewelry fans will love Melissa Cable’s fresh approach to wireworking
that yields enhanced textures and fresh-on-the-scene looks. She
showcases projects from her repertoire and the imaginations of three
other jewelry artists to ensure a broad sweep of styles. Beginners and
advanced jewelry makers alike can learn something new from Melissa’s
proven teaching methods and her innovative techniques that create
effects that rival textures typically achieved with expensive
equipment. Over 25 projects and mini projects.
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Creative Beading Vol. 6
Creative Beading Vol. 6 beautifully showcases 77 stitching, stringing,
embroidery, crochet, and wirework projects featured in Bead&Button
from October 2009 to August 2010. Projects appeal to all levels of
beaders, and the book includes a basics section with helpful tips. You
will enjoy a year’s worth of the best projects from the past six issues
of Bead&Button, complete with editor-tested instructions,
full-color photos, and detailed illustrations. This book includes a
wide assortment of projects featuring popular stitching techniques such
as peyote, brick stitch, herringbone, and right-angle weave plus
stringing, wirework, embroidery and bead crochet projects. Thorough
basic techniques, tools and materials section are also included as well
as handy index.
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Patterns in Polymer
Create stunning, colorfully patterned focal beads with polymer clay!
Learn secrets for sophisticated color mixing, imprint tools, adding
found objects to polymer, and designing and finishing layered beads.
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Titles just released in Kalmbach's Hobby Line
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The Model Railroader's Guide to Trackside Structures
Discover iconic railroad structures and their importance to the industry; then learn to model them! Filled with historical photos, this book from Jeff Wilson describes the design and operation of various types and styles of depots, passenger stations, and freight houses. It also covers the smaller structures and details found along railroad rights-of-way such as interlocking towers, maintenance sheds, crossing shanties and gates, signs, and communication lines. Water towers, icing platforms, scales, and other service structures are also included.
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Essential Skills for Scale Modelers
Beginning scale modelers need a basic set of skills that they can build on as they continue through the hobby. Essential Skills for Scale Modelers, written by FineScale Modeler’s Aaron Skinner, lays the foundation needed to build, paint, weather, and display all types of models. This technique-driven how-to book contains a variety of projects that allow modelers to put their new found skills to use.
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Introduction to Model Railroading
The all-new material in Introduction to Model Railroading offers beginning modelers a wealth of information. It begins with choosing a place, era and scale to model. Veteran modeler Jeff Wilson also breaks down the basics of planning a layout and building supporting benchwork. The easy-to-follow instructions and abundance of photographs make this the perfect introduction to scale model railroading.
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