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Jewelry Television, the cable-TV and online seller of jewelry, is now offering a series of instructional DVDs on making jewelry with gemstones. It might sound strange that these purveyors of fine and highly-commercialized jewelry would teach jewelry making. What you may not know is that in addition to finished jewelry, they also sell loose gemstones, including lots of cabochons - which, of course, can be handcrafted into pendants pretty easily.
Accordingly, the introductory DVD, Basic Wire Wrapping, covers basic techniques for wrapping cabochons with wire. The instructor is expert wire-worker Dale Armstrong.
Currently, the DVD alone is $24.99. You can also buy it as a kit with basic wire-wrapping tools and supplies for $99.99.
Example clips of the video are available on the Jewelry School website (a nice touch). From what I can tell, it looks pretty well put-together. I look forward to seeing what topics they cover in the next DVDs in the series - and how beginning jewelry crafters respond to them.
If you decide to give either a try, let me know what you think of it!
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