Featuring the work of 23 jewelry artists from around the world who are "going green," this book demonstrates how to expand your creative horizons with inspiring examples and step-by-step methods for creating one-of-a-kind, wearable pieces using castaway objects.

Jewelry from Found Objects is packed with examples of and insights into the ways in which artists conceptualize and create their work with reclaimed objects. It contains the following information:

• Chapter one, "Material Matters," considers the ordinary materials that surround us in our daily lives as well as the ways they can be sourced and reused to create jewelry.
• Chapter two, "Telling Tales," examines how the histories of found objects add value to jewelry that newly manufactured and mass-produced materials rarely can.
• Chapter three, "Securing Skills," emphasizes the importance of having sound jewelry-making skills and offers 15 step-by-step drawings of four cold-joining techniques to get you started.
• Chapter four, "Attracting Attention," investigates how jewelry that challenges traditional ideas of design and scale as well as material can be wonderful experimentations.
• Chapter five, "Inspiring Insights," presents the work of jewelry artists who are rethinking traditional jewelry making practices and questioning the ways their art affects the environment.

The book is richly illustrated with 70 color photographs.

Heather Skowood has been making jewelry for 19 years and teaching jewelry making in the United States and the United Kingdom for 15 years. Her jewelry has been exhibited in galleries in the United States, England, Northern Ireland, and Spain. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Author — Heather Skowood.

Paperback. 96 pages. 8" × 10" (20 cm × 25 cm).