Linking Our Lineage: 12 Techniques from 12 Master Smiths, Volumes 1-3
Three instructional ebooks featuring tutorials by the 2015-2017 SNAG Links artists, edited by Victoria Lansford.
Linking Our Lineage, Volume 1 is an ebook and print book of jewelry and metalsmithing techniques with chapters by Nanz Aalund, Lessley Burke, Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez, Andy Cooperman, Ronda Coryell, Robin Gordon, Mary Lee Hu, Linda Kaye-Moses, Brian Meek, Dawn M. Miller, Chris Ploof, and Jayne Redman, and edited by Victoria Lansford. The processes illustrated range from beginning to advanced and are presented with over 130 color photographs and 7 videos. (See below for link to ebook) (Also available in print)
Linking Our Lineage, Volume 2 is an ebook of jewelry and metalsmithing techniques with chapters by Linda Threadgill, Sessin Durgham, Charles Pinckney, Deanna Pastel, Jennifer Jordan Park, James Binnion, Ezra Satok-Wolman, John Lunn, Ken Bova, Sarah Michaela Sitarz, Parker Brown, Tina Wiltsie, and edited by Victoria Lansford. The processes illustrated range from beginning to advanced and are presented with over 190 color photographs and 3 videos. (See below for link to ebook)
Linking Our Lineage, Volume 3 is an ebook of jewelry and metalsmithing techniques with chapters by Phillip Baldwin, Kim Baxter, Sarah Doremus, Cynthia Eid, David Huang, Valentina Moeur, Mark Nelson, Claudio Pino, Matthew Smith, Munya Avigail Upin, and edited by Victoria Lansford. The processes illustrated range from beginning to advanced and are presented with over 140 color photographs and 7 videos. (See below for link to ebook)
The links created and written about by each artist were part of the SNAG Links project, a fundraiser for SNAG. All proceeds from the books benefit SNAG.
The ebooks are available in the iBooks Store on your iPad or Mac for $12.99. Click on the links below. (Access the iBooks store through the iBooks app on your device.)
Requirements: To view this book, you must have an iPad with iBooks 3 or later and iOS 5.1 or later or a Mac with iBooks 1.0 or later and OS X 10.9 or later. Without these minimum versions, the book title may not be visible in the iBooks Store. Please note that due to the many images and videos within the book, the file size is 500MB. The book will not download if your device does not have enough free storage space.
Volume 1 is also available in print!
Excerpts from Volume 1: