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Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Bronze Diamond

October 18, 2019
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by Detrina Kofroth

Making Matching Components for your Jewelry Design Welcome to the third installment of the Handmade Components series. So far, we have made two versions of the ever popular oval component, each with an eye loop. Today, I am going to walk you through the process I used for creating these gorgeous diamond shape Bronze components. […]

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Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Copper Oval with Eye Loop

October 15, 2019
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by Detrina Kofroth

Making Matching Components for your Jewelry Design Hello and welcome back to my miniseries in Metalsmithing Jewelry. In the last post, we reviewed the step by step tutorial for a Brass Oval With Eye Loop. I showed you one technique for making near perfect matching components. Today we are going to take a look at […]

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Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Brass Oval with Eye Loop

October 11, 2019
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by Detrina Kofroth

Making Matching Components for your Jewelry Design Hello and welcome to a new miniseries in Metalsmithing Jewelry. I have several new project tutorials coming your way this month and I needed a few wire components to use for some wire wrapping designs. I thought to myself, what a great time this would be to teach […]

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Bead Weaving 101 – Advanced Tubular Peyote – Beaded Bezels

October 7, 2019
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by Detrina Kofroth

Square Stone Beaded Bezels Welcome back to Bead Weaving 101. In this series, I am taking the basic bead weaving stitches, one at a time, and exploring many of the variations and options we have as bead weavers. Understanding how these variations work will add untold value to our skills as jewelry designers. The first […]

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Bead Weaving 101 – Advanced Tubular Peyote – Creating 3D Shapes

September 30, 2019
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by Detrina Kofroth

You are becoming such the Peyote Expert…. We have worked really hard getting to know all the wonderful variations of Peyote bead stitching. I think it is time to step it up to the next level and learn to create 3D Shapes using Tubular Peyote. The process is similar to working up a 3D peyote […]

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Bead Weaving 101 – Tubular Peyote – Dutch Spiral Basics

September 27, 2019
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by Detrina Kofroth

Hello and Welcome back to Bead Weaving 101. In the last few weeks, we have been talking all about Peyote Stitch Basics. We are now working on Tubular Peyote spirals and in our last post we talked about how to create spirals in this technique and we completed a primer on the Cellini Spiral technique. […]