Create contemporary copper jewelry as Sharilyn Miller, the best-selling author of Bead on a Wire, teaches you how to make beautifully designed and afforable pieces, from bracelets and necklaces to earrings and pins. Copper offers jewelry makers a stylish, yet inexpensive alternative to silver, and is attractive, easy to work with, and very accessible. Inside you will find: Step-by-step photography for all projects and techniques Tips for mixing metals with copper to create one-of-a-kind designs An extensive technique section that includes distressing copper, simple metalwork, cold joins, and creating unique wire components 22 projects from a collection of top jewelry artists, including Rachel Nelson-Smith, Dale Couger Armstrong, Eugenia Chan, and Richard Salley, that are sure to inspire wire and metal jewelry enthusiasts an instructional DVD with Sharilyn covering all the basics of wireworking to offer a solid foundation to create the projects in Contemporary Copper Jewelry with DVD