JEWELRY MAKING CLASSES
by Warren Feld, Instructor, Jewelry Designer
www.warrenfeldjewelry.com
www.landofodds.com/classes/
http://www.landofodds.com/online-video-tutorials/
Warren Feld has been beading and making jewelry over the past 27 years, from bead
stringing, bead weaving, and micro-macrame to wire working and silversmithing. In 2000,
Warren founded The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts (CBJA), an educational program for Be
Dazzled Beads in Nashville, TN. The program, and its instructors, approach education from the
Design Perspective – a teaching focus on how to make functional, material, and aesthetic
choices.
Warren’s commitment and concern for the "teaching of beadwork" resulted from watching and
talking, over the years, with customers in the bead shop, who had taken classes elsewhere, or
tried to teach themselves from books. These beaders were not buying parts or using parts to
their best advantage. It was obvious that many people had taken classes, but that they weren't
necessarily learning. They were memorizing steps, rather than integrating organized processes
of thinking, thus designing.
In 2008, Warren’s “Canyon Sunrise” necklace was selected as Finalist, 4th Place, in
SWAROVSKI’s Be Naturally Inspired Design Contest. His piece "Little Tapestries/Ghindia" — was
juried into the book SHOWCASE 500 BEADED JEWELRY, Lark Publications. 2012. He is working
to bring the CBJA curriculum online as LearnToBead.net. He is currently writing a jewelry
design series entitled “How To Bead A Rogue Elephant.” Warren’s ideas about “unity in
design” summarized in the chapter "The Ugly Necklace Contest," in The Beader's Guide To
Jewelry Design, Margie Deeb, 2014. His project "Gwynian Ropes Bracelet", in the international
beadweaving magazine Perlen Posie, No. 21, 2014.
Owner, Designer and Instructor, Be Dazzled Beads in Nashville, and Land of Odds
(www.landofodds.com) OnLine. Director, Jewelry Design Camp. Administers three
international contests: The Ugly Necklace Contest, All Dolled Up-Beaded Art Dolls, and
Illustrative Beader-Beaded Tapestries. Member, Nashville Fashion Group. Faculty Instructor
with CraftArtEdu.com. Develop video tutorials about business of craft and about jewelry
design projects.
JEWELRY DESIGN SPECIALTIES: Bead Weaving, Bead Stringing, Design Theory, Business of Craft,
Contemporizing Traditional Jewelry, Vintage Revival Styles, Art vs. Craft Jewelry Design
Applications, Architectural Bases of Bead Weaving, Multi-Media Beading.
Personal style: multi-method, intricate color play, adaptive of traditions to contemporary
design, experimental.
Warren Feld teaches these classes, among others:
(summaries found online at: http://www.landofodds.com/classes/
Orientation to Beads & Jewelry Findings (also available as series of video tutorial)
Bead Weaving Basics
Basics of Bead Stringing and Attaching Clasps – Crimping Approach
Basics of Bead Stringing and Attaching Clasps – Needle and Thread Approach
Pearl Knotting Introduction (also available as video tutorial)
Pricing and Selling Your Jewelry (also available as video tutorial)
So You Want To Do Craft Shows (also available as video tutorial)
Getting Started In Your Jewelry Making Business
Let’s Make Earrings
Intro to Beads and Color
Jewelry Design I: Principles of Composition
Jewelry Design II: Form and Function
Tuxedo Park Bracelet (brick stitch) (also available as video tutorial)
Etruscan Square Stitch Bracelet (square stitch)
Etruscan Collar (Ndebele stitch)
Etruscan Vine Necklace (netting)
What Happens Next Bracelet (peyote)
Abacus Bracelet (square stitch)
Curvy Right Angle Weave Bracelet (right angle weave)
Streetscape Barcelona Bracelet (Petersburg chain, circular peyote, right angle weave)
Petersburg Chain Rope Bracelet (Petersburg chain)
Dara’s Bracelet (right angle weave and odd-count flat peyote)
BezelWorks Pendant and Strap (circular peyote, tubular peyote, dimensional peyote, Ndebele)
Catenary Arches Bracelet (peyote, right angle weave, ladder stitch, square stitch, Ndebele stitch)
Peyote 1-2-3 Bangles (1-drop, 2-drop and 3-drop peyote)
Gwynian Ropes Bracelet (right angle weave)
ColorBlock Bracelet (layered right angle weave)
Mother’s Celebration Bracelet (flat and tubular Ndebele stitch)
Caterpillar Espiritu Bracelet (fringe stitch)
Hapua Reef Cuff (bead embroidery)
Intro to Loom (loom)
Etruscan Butterfly Bracelet (brick, tubular peyote, wirework)