How to make Domed Bead Caps from the book Jewelry Arts Workshop: Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads by Linda Kaye-Moses

Now this is a cool inside peek on how to make a domed bead cap from the book Jewelry Arts Workshop: Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads, but it could be used with polymer clay too.

Jewelry Arts Workshop: Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads

By

Linda Kaye-Moses

Metal clay is an innovative material that combines the workability of clay with the beautiful finish and durability of precious metals. The material is easy to manipulate and shape by hand to make beads for bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry.

Jewelry Arts Workshop: Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads contains 15 projects for creating fine silver beads and a design gallery of 25 additional jewelry pieces. Intro chapters include information about tools and techniques. Projects are organized workshop-style, to build skills cumulatively.

Linda Kaye-Moses’s (Dalton, MA) work and articles have appeared in Lapidary Journal, Step-by-Step Jewelry, The Crafts Report, Metalsmith, Ornament, Art Jewelry, American Craft, American Style, the New York Times, and Craft Art International, among others. Her work has received several awards. She has also participated in numerous juried and invitational shows and is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Craft Council and the Society of North American Goldsmiths.

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Question:

What is your favorite bead or gemstone?

My answer:

I love watermelon tourmaline! My next favorite is peridot. And my third favorite is anything light blue at the moment. Anything from inexpensive glass beads to fun rhinestone bling, I have been on a light blue quest lately!

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Comments

[MonkeyGurrl]

Pink tourmaline. Far and away my favorite. Next comes anything pretty, shiny and colorful.

[Kim]

Hi!
I love Green Tourmaline for its beautiful color and the healing properties it possesses. It's probably my most favorite stone. I trimmed the link down to this: http://tr.im/I01K which tells quite a bit about this stone.

[Violarissa]

My favourites are moonstone, rose quartz, quartz and amethyst!

[MAry Anne]

Sapphire, beyond any doubt! Second would have to be amethyst. Blue and purple are my favourite colours.

[Kim]

I LOVE Czech beads! Withe all of their fecets and one side iridescent and the other not they are the most beautiful beads to me!!!

[Michele]

My favorite beads are handmade from magazine pages.

[Yo Presley]

Lampwork glass, Polymer clay cane and some seed beaded beads from one of our local artists.

[A Facebook User]

Emeralds, tiger eye's, jasper

[wendy m.]

I love the variety in rainbow fluorite - of course, sapphire and garnet are pretty nice, too!

[whitney]

I love labadorite and carneleon