Description
Just as rocks have evolved to hammers, and hammers to specialty-use tools that pound with every purpose from setting tacks to forging steel, wire bending tools have progressed through the ages as well. Our jewelry pliers act as extensions of our hands—holding and moving wire into loops and angles—while a wire jig does all that and more simultaneously (think of having the ten-armed Hindu goddess, Durga, sitting on your workbench)! Plus, by virtue of having two hands to move the wire around the tool, smooth, consistent and repeatable shapes are easy to achieve and easier on the body!
Join Brenda Schweder, inventor of the Now That’s a Jig! system, for her live web seminar that will explain wire jigs and their history. Then, explore several jig types and their benefits and differences. Brenda will also move you through the uses of wire jigs and what they can do, and how they can make your job as a jewelry designer both easier and gentler on the hands. Finally, she’ll show you who takes advantage of these tools (and why) and she’ll reveal a suite of finished jewelry pieces that will inspire new designs and ignite your creative technique!
In this web seminar you’ll learn:
- What a wire jig is and where it came from.
- Which hand-held and bench-top jigs are on the market and the differences between them.
- When using a jig is a benefit for making smooth, consistent, and precise wire forms.
- How a jig can help makers create pairs, multiples, mirror images, and complex forms.
- How to use a jig to make findings, chain links, focals, and motifs.
- How a jig makes light work of repetitive and difficult wireworking tasks and reduces the need for measuring.
- The benefits of using a wire jig for your health and body.
- And much more!
Instructor:
Brenda Schweder is an artist, author, teacher, columnist, inventor of Now That’s a Jig!, and collaborator with Swanstrom Tools USA of the hand-held wire jig Now That’s a Pliers!. She’s written Collaborate: Friends in the Making (self-published), Steel Wire Jewelry (Lark Jewelry & Beading), and Junk to Jewelry and Vintage Redux (Kalmbach Books). Her designs and fashion jewelry forecasts have been published hundreds of times in books and magazines.
Schweder is a 2015 Step by Step Wire Jewelry’s Artist of the Year and pens Creative Minds, a column in Wirework magazine (Kalmbach Publishing Co.) on cultivating personal creativity. She has also been a guest on Beads, Baubles & Jewels with Katie Hacker and Craftcast with Alison Lee. Visit her web site at www.BrendaSchweder.com and catch her on Etsy, Facebook, Pinterest, and her very own YouTube Channel.
Who Should Attend:
- Wireworkers, beaders and jewelry designers who want to enter the wireworking medium or expand their wireworking prowess.
- Bead weavers and mixed media artists who want to create small 2D or 3D wire frames and armatures for use in their work.
- Hobbyists and bench jewelers who want to investigate the benefits of using jigs to create smooth and consistent wire forms.
- Chain makers and production jewelers who want to make multiples of specific components with ease and efficiency.
- Crafters with hand-issues (i.e. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Arthritis, or simple hand weakness) who want to continue their hobbies, without the strain and wear to their bodies.
- Anyone who wants to make jewelry making easier by integrating jig-work into his or her tool repertoire.
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