Hardware Chic

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Hardware Chic

• Accessories from Hardware Store Treasures

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Go Shopping

• Tour your hardware store (the old-fashioned kind
  with bins and boxes of stuff is best.) Look for
  unusual items you can use as the base for your
  accessories.
• duct tape
• washers, nuts, and bolts
• plumbing parts
• metal fasteners, S-rings, key rings, hooks
• ball chain and other chains

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inspiration to get you started on your designs
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Hardware Cloth Bracelets

• wire hardware cloth, wire, and
• glass beads

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Hex-Nut Necklace

• hex-nuts, wire, cord
• from Hardwear book

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Washer Cuff Connector Chain

• rubber strip, washers, wire
• various connectors
• from Hardwear book

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Washer Necklace

• small washers, cord
• from Hardwear book

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Large Washer Belt

• large washers, cord
• from Hardwear book

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Link Belt(inspired by Gucci)

• various links, screw eyes, plastic tubing
• from Hardwear book

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Key Chain Necklace

• various sizes of key chains
• from Hardwear book

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Duct Tape Cuff

• duct tape or
• electrical tape,
• matching earrings
• from cord
• from Hardwear book

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Anni AlbersArtist Anni Albers designed jewelry
from common items in the 1940s with the idea that
beautiful objects did not need to be expensive
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drapery rings, ribbon
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ferrules, chamois strip
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washers, ribbon
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medium washers, ribbon
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ball chain, bobbie pins
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drain cover, paper clips, ball chain
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corks, bobbie pins, cord
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rubber hose washers, ribbon
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Now go explore the hardware store!
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• Hardwear, Hannah Rogge photographs by Marianne
  Rafter.
• Stewart, Tabori Chang Publishers
• Anni Albers designs from Josef and Anni Albers
  Foundation www.albersfoundation.org
• Hardware Cloth Bracelet from HGTV.com