A collection of safety pin bracelet designs – looking for ideas and bead reuse ideas
pcycled tie necklaces with DIY tutorial by Aletha Israels from Artstar.
‘Plastic bottle cutter’ on youtube demonstrates making narrow tubes out of plastic bottle which can then be sliced into beads that look like bugle beads,
Lindsay Weirich demonstrates heating a strip of plastic bottle to form a bead.
A collection of jewellery made from melon seeds
Excerpt from an origami book from 1989 by Paul Jackson and possible lead into the history of Windmill Loop.
Tawny Reynollds from Sundrop Jewelry sun-melts glass jewelry by melting recycled bottles and stained glass into elegant droplets using a giant magnifying glass.
by Lois Walpole Ropes are separated to obtain nylon filaments which are the core of braided ropes. The balls are made by stitching and rolling.
An overview of a view different methods of working with PET to make jewellery and more.
Some notes on reclaiming copper wire. Some have coating that needs removing and some don’t. Sandy reckons it is actually cheaper to buy new than reclaim.
Shows how to make earring hooks using pliers and specialised tools, or with pliers, a pencil and emery board. By Jessica Barst
I like the simple way of finishing off the rim with wire. by Rebecca Delfs
Beautiful earrings made from Teabag wrappers. by Gitte Jensen, Norway
