This is a reference guide to the equipment, materials and techniques that can be used when making jewellery. It is aimed at the beginner but it would also be suitable for the more experienced jeweller. It shows in step-by-step sequences how to accomplish various techniques. It also explains the pros and cons of different materials and finishes and how to achieve them.

Handbook of Jewellery Techniques

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Codina, Carles

Crafts & Hobbies

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Basic Metal Jewelry Techniques explains the fundamentals of metallurgy and basic formulas that every jeweler should know and master. It also shows, in great detail, the essential procedures involved in basic jewelry making, from soldering and sanding to making clasps. The accurate and up-to-date content is accompanied by a large number of photos and drawings that help to facilitate all of the processes shown, including stamping, polishing, casting, and beveling. With practice, the aspiring master jeweler can apply these techniques to virtually any project. Featured in the last section of the book are step-by-step instructions for making a number of pieces of jewelry using the constructive methods explained throughout the book. Choose one or create your own!

Basic Metal Jewelry Techniques: A Masterclass

Schiffer Craft

A detailed, visual approach to metal work, showing the most common processes and techniques used in jewelry making today. Accompanying the detailed instructions are over 250 photographs and drawings that clarify each step of the processes. The text explains techniques for enameling, embossing and engraving, and mounting and setting gem stones. The traditional methods of mounting stones include bezel setting, wire prongs, mixed mount setting, and channel setting. It also introduces the contemporary techniques of image transfer and airbrush painting. The latter part of the book offers four step-by-step projects using the techniques described in the first chapters. These include a painted bracelet from machinable polymer, a pendant of silver and ivory palm nut, a gold pendant with tourmaline, and brooches with cast metal and airbrushed highly resistant paint. This book is for anyone with a passion for jewelry making or for jewelry itself.

Metal Jewelry Techniques: Enameling, Engraving, Setting, and Mounting – A Masterclass

Schiffer

In Color, Texture &amp; Casting, jewelry teacher extraordinaire Carles Codina covers a wide swath of techniques in depth, in a book packed with excellent instruction and cover-to-cover superb how-to photography: keum, boo, plating, melted filings, mokume gane, and granulation; textures, finishes, and patinas; and microcasting, working with waxes, sand casting, cuttlebone casting, ceramic coating, and casting in a closed crucible. Several wonderful and innovative projects to explore the teachings and a beautiful gallery round out this valuable, hands-on volume. Along with the other important material covered in the book, with Color, Texture &amp; Casting Carles Codina has created the best modern casting book on the market--one that's authoritative, approachable, and loaded with fantastic creative techniques.

Color, Texture & Casting for Jewelers: Hands-On Demonstrations & Practical Applications

Lark Crafts

“Most of the examples are contemporary...and all blessed with great color photographs—as is the grand finale, the step-by-step how-tos of seven different pieces, detailed with words and in pictures...introduction for buyers as well as for budding artisans.”—Booklist. “A beautifully illustrated guide to jewelry-making techniques...a very useful chapter on the properties of metals.”—Library Journal.

The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction To The Jeweler's Art

Lark Books

This amazingly comprehensive guide to the jeweler’s art is a goldmine of information—big, beautiful, and with hundreds of color photos. It’s simply the handsomest, most complete sourcebook available, with its enlightening discussion of basic metallurgy (alloying, smelting, annealing, and pickling), and professional-quality techniques for cutting, piercing, soldering, and making closures and rings. Learn the tricks of the trade for enhancing surfaces; etching, combining metals, creating textures, adding color; engraving; enameling; and gem setting. Seven magnificently presented projects include a silver repoussé pendant, an articulated gold bracelet with clasp, a multiple loop-in-loop chain, and a square hollow-construction ring to die for.

The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction to the Jeweler's Art

Union Square & Co.

Goldsmithing & Silver Work: Jewelry, Vessels & Ornaments

Hundreds of color photographs detail the procedures and display a breathtaking assortment of pieces by talented artists. Each innovative project introduces techniques that range from casting and stamping to hand engraving, electroplating, and more specialized methods. The chapter on gems alonefeaturing the work of Bernd Munsteiner, considered the world’s best gem cuttermakes this source book invaluable.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

What makes a piece of jewelry special isn't the cost--it's the creativity, novelty, and originality that go into the design. And this imaginative and informative compendium of jewelry-making techniques, packed with more than 700 color images and written by the noted jeweler and instructor Carles Codina, features a range of contemporary alternative materials. From paper, wood, and polymer clay to glass, new metal formats, and plastics, each material receives detailed attention, with the key techniques demonstrated in a single, finished project. Mold and embellish paper clay to create a whimsical brooch. Fold rice paper into a sculptural bracelet. To finish in style, there are six additional items to make that build upon earlier skills, including a necklace of hollow ceramic orbs.

The New Jewelry: Contemporary Materials & Techniques

Experience the pleasure of crafting with precious metals, and of using your creativity and skills to produce objects of great beauty. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate the procedures in rich detail, and display a breathtaking assortment of pieces by talented artists. Each innovative project introduces techniques that range from casting, stamping, hand engraving, and electroplating to the more specialized Kum Boo, where sheets of gold are fused with silver to form lovely motifs. Begin with two handsome square rings or a traditional Berber bracelet with delicate filigree, and move on to an elaborate coffee service once basic techniques are mastered. The chapter on gems alone—featuring the work of Bernd Munsteiner, considered the best gem cutter in the world—makes this sourcebook invaluable!

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Handbook of Jewellery Techniques

Basic Metal Jewelry Techniques: A Masterclass

Metal Jewelry Techniques: Enameling, Engraving, Setting, and Mounting – A Masterclass

Color, Texture & Casting for Jewelers: Hands-On Demonstrations & Practical Applications

The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction To The Jeweler's Art

The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction to the Jeweler's Art

Goldsmithing & Silver Work: Jewelry, Vessels & Ornaments

The New Jewelry: Contemporary Materials & Techniques

Goldsmithing & Silver Work: Jewelry, Vessels & Ornaments