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Metal Mesh Ribbon


Gold Ribbon


Silver Ribbon

Metal Tubular Mesh Ribbon
Very fine mesh ribbon/tube of metal in either gold or silver colors. You can use it as a thin ribbon, you can stretch it cross-wise to form a wider ribbon or you can cut the tube open to make it an even wider, flatter ribbon. In addition to traditional ribbon uses, I'm thinking it would look great as stockings or a tunic on an art doll. I haven't seen this around much yet so I hope you'll let me know what you're doing with it. 6mm wide X 1meter long

$5.50



Gold Ribbon Detail

Findings
3 Pewter Bails
These pewter bails are ready to hang from cord or chain in your necklace, brooch and mixed media art designs. They are 3 different styles so that you can match them to your designs.

Bails
$3.50
(3)


Sterling Silver

Use the tubes as spacers on your fabricated metal work

Book Front: Shows Sterling Silver Crimps/Tubes holding copper decoration up above surface of cover (see detail)

Sterling Silver Crimps/Tubes (~50)
Yes, they are the perfect crimp beads when you use our Crimp Pliers to close them, but we're excited because they are great when metalsmithing to use as tubes to lift one piece of metal up above another (see photo). We have these in copper too! If you are making rivets, these are perfectly sized for 20 Gauge Wire.

$7.50 (~50)

Copper Crimp Beads (~50)
These copper crimp beads are much better quality than what you usually find in craft stores and they are made from solid copper. They work perfectly with our new Crimp Bead Pliers and can also be used as spacers to raise one sheet of metal above another for a layered effect (see above). We have these in Sterling Silver too!

$4.00 (~50)

Crimp Bead Pliers are here

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Copper Lobster Claw Clasps
For all of your copper necklaces and bracelets, these large, easy-to-handle antiqued copper plated clasps are perfect.

$3.50

Copper Jump Rings
Each bag contains ~100 raw copper rings (sold by weight). They are the perfect size for attaching charms and dangly things to your books, chain maille, jewelry making, bails on soldered items, etc. We use these a lot!
Can be darkened with our Oxidizing Solution. Machine-cut and tumbled. Size is 18 gauge wire (finished rings are 6.65 - 7mm)

Sorry, we are temporarily
out of jump rings

Note about copper chain maille: Copper is a little softer than sterling silver. I recommend that you tumble-harden your piece after you've made it to harden the rings. it isn't completely necessary but adds a little security. If you solder, you might want to solder the rings that attach to the clasp ends.

Sterling Silver Jump Rings
Each bag contains ~100 sterling silver rings (sold by weight). They are the perfect size for attaching charms and dangly things to your books, chain maille, jewelry making, bales on soldered items, etc. We use these a lot!
Machine-cut and tumbled.
Size 18 gauge wire (finished rings are 6.65 - 7mm)

Sorry, temporarily out of sterling jumps


My cool shoe charm necklace


Box and Byzantine weaves with our copper jump rings

We have instructions for opening and closing jump rings correctly and other thoughts in "The Muse"

Alcohol Inks and Blender

Alcohol Inks
These great dye-based inks create a vibrant, polished effect on non-porous surfaces like glass, glossy paper, dominoes, foil, metal, shrink plastic and more! Use with or without Blending Solution. (3) .5 oz. bottles.

Acid Free | Permanent | Quick Drying
Transparent | Precision Tip

Tuscan Garden
Red Pepper, Mushroom, Oregano

$10.00 (3 bottles)


 

Miner's Lantern
Rust, Stonewashed, Pitch Black

Alcohol Blending Solution
The Alcohol Blending Solution was specially formulated to dilute and lighten the Alcohol Inks’ vibrant tones. Not only is this solution useful for lightening and blending the Alcohol Ink colors, it will also remove them from slick surfaces, hands and art tools.

  • Acid free

  • 2 fl. oz. Bottle

  • Precision Tip

  • Use with Alcohol Inks

$5.00

Wooden Alphabet Tiles
All the rage for scrapbookers, altered book artists, stampers and everyone else who wants a little reminder of America's favorite word game. Two full alphabets + extra letter and picture tiles are ~1/2" X 1/2" X 1/8". They even have the Scrabble
® scores on them!

$5.50

Acrylic Sheets  
1/16" thick 5" X 5" Acrylic Sheets (2)
Clear, thin acrylic for layered items; book windows, fabricated metal brooches and necklaces, etc. Use them for book covers and sew with a Coptic stitch! It's protected in cling plastic so that's perfect and scratch free when you receive it. Enough for several small projects.

$3.00 (2)

This pin has a layer of acrylic between the 2 pieces of metal. It's bolted together using our great Miniature Hardware.
Beads, Cabochons and Charms
High Heel Shoe Charms
Made from pewter, these 3 gold colored shoe charms are 3-D so they look good from any angle.

$3.50 / 3


High Heels


Cool Heels

Cool Heel Shoe Charms
Made from pewter, these 2 gold colored shoe charms are 3-D so they look good from any angle. I just love the shoe styles!

2.25 / 2

 

4mm Copper Beads
Smooth, round copper beads.

4mm Copper Beads
$5.00 / 50

 

Gingko Leaf Charms
Pewter finished with either an "antique gold" plating or with copper plating. The stems are cleverly curved to form a closed loop for jump rings, fibers or a bale. Approximately 5/8" X 3/4" each.

$3.50 (3)



Antique Gold

Copper


Current batch has a smooth finish

Copper Plated Pewter Tear Shaped Drops
They are the perfect finish to a brooch, or pendant or to dangle from a bookmark. They have a rustic looking finish and are made from copper plated pewter.

$3.50 (5)

Roman Coin Charms (3)
Two-sided Roman coin charms made from pewter. Antique gold color.

$3.50 (3)

Funky Pewter Drops (2)
Two drops (1 5/8" long) for finishing up your funkiest work. They have a 'ethnic' look to them and will be useful in so many projects. Copper plated pewter.

$3.50 (2)


Back and Front

Antique Gold Colored Pewter Drops (3)
Looking for the perfect finish for your brooches, earrings, pins, bookmarks, etc.? Consider finishing it with our drops. You get 3 in a package. I can just picture these as legs on dolls too!

$3.50

 


Beading felt at work
(click for larger image)


Colors vary. Please let us choose for you.

Beading Felts
Indispensable when working with small items like beads and jump rings, these Beading Felts keep things from rolling away. They are just padded enough to allow for easily picking up tiny items. Best of all, they are completely portable so you can take them with you from room to room or from state to state (and they make great packing material for the other things you have to take on trips).

$1.25 ea.

 

Summer Dress Charms
What fun! These charms will make you want to dance. Three charms that look like 3 different styles of summer dresses. They're made of pewter and the finish is called antique gold. They are 3-D so they look great from the front or the back.

$3.50 (3)

'Foundations' Charms
With a wry little wink ;-) we're pleased to offer these 3-D pewter, er, um, 'foundations' charms. In each package you get 2 different bustiers and a bra and they look as great from the back as they do from the front. I had to buy these for myself, uh, I mean for you! Click to enlarge the images and see the wonderful detail.


$3.50 (3)

 
Hand Charms
You get 6 pewter charms in either copper or silver finishes. Each package contains 3 right hands and 3 left hands. Use them in assemblage, artist dolls or hang them from a journal or bookmark.

$2.25 (6)



Copper

Silver


Gold
 

Face Beads
These fun pewter beads have
holes going top to bottom. There are 3 beads in a package and they are great for hanging from fibers on your journals or sewing right into the stitches of an exposed- or through-the-spine book. They look great as the heads on metalsmithing and clay doll projects. The faces come in gold, copper and silver color.


Silver

Copper

Copper

$3.50 / 3



Gold

Knotting

Knotting Awl
Sure, it's the perfect tool for tying knots between pearls but its small size and very sharp point make it great for so much more, including bookbinding! This is one of those must-have tools that you'll use over and over.

$4.00

 

Golden Skeleton Key
Great for tying onto your bookmarks. These are real brass-plated keys, not charms!


Christine Cox ~2002
 


2 3/4" long

$4.00 / 2

 

I made this large wooden domino (12" X 8") wall-hanging using brass keys. Note the pictures of Gibson Girls behind the keyholes.
In the collection of Michelle Port
.
Omni-Gel
It's a transfer medium. No, it's for oil painting effects. No, it's a glue. Omni-Gel is a wonderful medium (a heavy liquid) that can do so many things! My favorite use is for transferring images onto glass, leather, metal, wood, almost anything! It is much thicker than acrylic gel medium so the transfers are much, much more durable and easy to handle. Easy to use and the effects are incredible. 8 Fl. Oz. Instructions on bottle.

10.50

Find out how to do an Omni-Gel transfer onto glass.

 



Learn how to make this book in "The Muse"

I love Omni-Gel! The cover of this book was made by transferring (with a hot, flat iron) the image (from an ink jet print) to a piece of glass. Then the glass was soldered to the cover of a Petite Metal Journal cover. The pages are the novel Peter Pan, which we sell as a Book in Sheets.

Mica
Large Mica Pieces
The pieces are large: they average 25 square inches each. You can use them as windows in book covers or even whole pages in a book. They are safe for rubber stamping, enameling, kiln firing, and embossing. Sandwich photos or dried flower petals between the sheets. Use them in collages, paint on them, write on them, eyelet them (the Japanese Screw Punch is perfect for making holes in mica). I've even seen mica used in beautiful soft soldered lamp shades. The light shows through the mica for a muted effect.

$6.50 / 1/2 oz.


Save 10% on 1 oz. package
$11.70


I use our mica for firing enamels in my kiln. It's perfect for flat pieces (without counter enamel), and plique-à-jour. Preheat the mica in the kiln (without enamels) before using it the first time. This releases any air bubbles. -- Christine Cox


Laura Friedman made this mica-covered book in Dan Essig's class
Book of Micah

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Have you seen my directions for drying flowers in the microwave without special equipment?

Each package contains a minimum of 1/2 oz. or 1 oz. large mica piece(s) which can be used as-is or can be easily split into several thinner pieces. Some of the random pieces are long and thin and others are more square. Please let us choose for you. The 5" square pieces are exactly what they sound like they are. There may be small imperfections such as missing corners, spots, etc. Please consider these artistic opportunities.

Leafing Pens
Krylon Leafing Pen
These are the BEST leafing pens! They dispense opaque metallic paint in your choice of colors:
  • Copper
  • Red
  • Gold
  • Silver

The chiseled tip allows for either broad or fine lines. Use them to highlight the edges of cards or to paint wood. I like to use them to add sparkle and drama around the edges of each page layer in our Christmas Star Book Kit. They work for so many things because the paint is heavy and opaque and because they are made with real metal. Keep out of the reach of children. Follow instructions on package.

$8.50


 


Don't want your soldered charms to be silver colored? Try a leafing pen and make them gold, red or copper instead (not permanent-they will acquire a weathered look).


Red leafing pen can be used for holidays or all year long


Reminiscent of snow; silver leafing pen on blue cardstock