This is just a quick plug for a book I recently picked up and the entire thing intrigued me enough to start on my own steampunk jewelry-making expedition. If you'd like the book, consider purchasing it from amazon.com (see the link on the left).Let me share a couple of great quotes from the book just to entice you all:
"The type of antique things and techniques the steampunk artist or recreationist instinctively seeks and utilizes are those objects and techniques for which the current period offers only inferior or ugly or distasteful counterparts...Silk and linen instead of polyester. Brass and glass and rubber instead of plastic...Leather belts and buckles instead of Velcro..." (p. 6, Paul Di Filippo - Steampunk Author)It just gives me warm fuzzies inside when I start dreaming up different projects made with these sorts of sensibilities and items many would think of as "junk."
I'll leave you with a link to the wikipedia article on steampunk (since it covers steampunk fairly succinctly).
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