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Natural Settings

Creating Botanical Jewelry with Eco-resins
By Sharon Wu
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A sustainable guide to making plant-based resin accessories with your favourite flowers, including earrings, bezel necklaces and pendants. Whether you’re a beginner looking to take up an eco-friendly hobby, or an established crafter aiming to ditch harmful petroleum-based resins, these 33 projects provide essential advice for... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A sustainable guide to making plant-based resin accessories with your favorite flowers, including earrings, bezel necklaces and pendants.

A sustainable guide to making plant-based resin accessories with your favorite flowers, including earrings, bezel necklaces and pendants.

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A sustainable guide to making plant-based resin accessories with your favourite flowers, including earrings, bezel necklaces and pendants.

Whether you’re a beginner looking to take up an eco-friendly hobby, or an established crafter aiming to ditch harmful petroleum-based resins, these 33 projects provide essential advice for creating your own botanical jewellery.

You’ll learn to select, pick and prepare flowers, leaves and other natural materials for preservation, before following a beginner-friendly introduction to encasing objects in resin, working with bezels and jewellery tools. Once you’ve mastered shaping and curing plant-based resin, later projects open up a world of sculptural creativity. Using a range of moulds, you’ll learn how to cast, layer and assemble like a pro.

Brimming with tips and tricks throughout, including the addition of colourants, foil and glitter to your finished pieces, Sharon Wu’s step-by-step instructions will help you create personalised, vibrant and sustainable accessories for every occasion. Whether preserving the first flower of spring or the leaves from your Christmas wreath, Natural Settings is the indispensable guide for anybody interested in making resin jewellery.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789943450

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Herbert Press Ltd

Illustration: Contains over 500 color photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 278.0mm

Weight: 729g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Sharon Wu, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist specializing in material science. Since 2018, she has been teaching flower pressing and resin jewelry making, sharing her passion for blending science and art. In 2020 she launched Flower Reader, her handmade jewelry shop on Etsy, and in 2021 she founded 12 Dalton, an initiative to spread the wonders of science and empower women in STEM.

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