Textile Techniques in Metal: For Jewelers Textile Artists & Sculptors [Hardcover]

Arline M. Fisch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996

Perhaps Arline Fisch can't teach readers how to spin straw into gold, but she can show them how to weave with silver, knit with brass, crochet with copper, and braid with gold of various hues. With step-by-step instructions and how-to photos, she explains how to work each fiber technique in metal wire or strip. Each technique is illustrated with examples of handsome jewelry by accomplished designers.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Weaving and knitting may not seem to be likely techniques for metalworkers, but fine wire and strips of metal can be made pliable enough to be worked this way. Fisch gives detailed instructions for metal weaving, knitting, crocheting, braiding, lacemaking, and basketry. A section of historical examples and a pictorial survey of works by contemporary artists is included. This book would have been improved with more color photographs to bring out contrasts, but it is excellent otherwise.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Jewelers, textile artists and sculptors receive an excellent guide to applying textile techniques to metals; from weaving and knitting metal to producing metal braids. This provides both a sweeping history of the use of metal in art and a list of basics for beginners; from suppliers of materials and tools to using various techniques to produce finished products. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937274933
• ISBN-13: 978-0937274934
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspires new creative ideas and works, September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Textile Techniques in Metal: For Jewelers Textile Artists & Sculptors (Hardcover)

An excellent guide inspiring ideas for both metal sculpture and jewelry. A beautiful, as well as a thoughtful presentation of textile history and techniques adapted for use with metals. The photographs are elegant and eloquent in the information that they alone convey. A remarkable book useful to both students of jewelry techniques and to masters of metal work. Five Stars to Arline Fisch!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When Fiber Becomes Metal, August 19, 2003

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Teantae Turner "sistert" (Columbia, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Textile Techniques in Metal: For Jewelers, Textile Artists & Sculptors (Hardcover)

Though not the end all, be all of the technique (I wish she'd come out with a good project based how-to book on the subject), you will find tons of inspiration in the gallery and in the descriptions of the basic techniques! For those looking for a way to add to their current jewlery work or jump from textiles to jewelry, you'll find lots of help here.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, June 23, 2007

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A. Rubli "Ana" (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Textile Techniques in Metal: For Jewelers, Textile Artists & Sculptors (Paperback)

This is not a how to do a project book.
Its a book that shows you how to push the materials used to its full capacity
100% inspirational.
Photos are great, so is the information on history materials, tools, etc.
A "must have" for all serious wire artists