Hobbies and Crafts Articles
21: How To Photograph Artwork with a Digital Camera for use on the Internet
Getting a good digital image of artwork is very important if you want people to get the full impact of your artwork. You need to have good quality digital images of your artwork for online galleries,
22: Tips on Cutting Sheet Silver for Jewellery Making
At its most basic level, sheet silver is cut after a design has been created and fixed onto it. Some craftsmen simply attach the design sheet using scotch tape, others prefer a rubber adhesive; either
23: How to Open Jump Rings
They can be made from gold, silver, copper or brass wire and, whilst they are traditionally round in shape, they can come in other forms such as ovals, squares, triangles and hexagons. The wire itself
24: Making Your Own Jump Rings Using Silver Wire
At this level, you will require few tools: wire cutters or a jeweller’s saw, a mandrel (a shaped metal bar used to bend wire in a certain pattern) and, if you’re using wire cutters, safety glasses. Wi
25: Silver Wire for Jewellery Making
Wire-wrapping is one of the oldest forms of jewellery-making. It is also one of the most popular in modern times, being relatively inexpensive and relatively easy to learn at a basic level. Of course,
26: Making Silver Jewellery
For this basic project, the craftsman will require a sterling silver sheet, a scribe, a jeweller’s saw and blades, a bench peg, a jeweller’s drill and access to a buffing machine. Once the basic piece
27: Soldering Silver Findings to Jewellery
Firstly, the silver to be soldered must be annealed. This is the initial softening of the silver to be joined; only the areas to be soldered need to be annealed – it is not necessary to anneal the pie
28: Language learning myths
There are a lot of myths surrounding language learning, many of which people might actually have been taught as genuinely helpful when learning a new language. Here are 9 of those myths that people te
29: Smile Shutter? Give Me a Break
All I want is a cheap digital camera to take traveling with me when I go to Argentina at the start of next year. My sister took a Sony Cybershot camera when she went on holiday and the photos she prod
30: Roller Derby, Austin Style
Ten women go whizzing past wearing wild fishnet hoses. Their colorful get-ups also include helmets and kneepads and flying scarves and the skates on which they are racing around the oval track.
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