Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers

Author: Elizabeth Bone
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781596684997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Your expert techniques with a silver lining! A comprehensive guide, Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers details techniques, surface treatments, and innovations specifically designed for all jewelry makers working in silver, and especially focuses on the needs and interests relevant to metal-jewelry artisans. Explore basic skills as well as specialist techniques, including filigree, chasing, annealing, engraving, etching, casting, and much more. Plus, profiles of contemporary practitioners are included in every section, along with galleries illustrating a range of beautifully crafted finished works. The handy resource section also features a how-to for selling jewelry in the contemporary accessories market. Experienced jewelry makers interested in either exploring silver for the first time or taking their silver jewelry to the next level will love this harmonious marriage between expert silversmithing advice and a jewelry artisan sensibility.

How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line

Author: Emilie Shapiro
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
ISBN: 1454710853
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
A successful jewelry designer offers a practical guide to starting your business, selling your creations, and building your brand. To develop a successful jewelry line, designers have to be more than just creative artists—they have to understand the ins and outs of running a crafts business. Emilie Shapiro’s detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handmade collection that people will buy, including: where to sell your work how to do small-scale production how to carry out market research and publicity how to price and present your pieces for greatest effect, and much more Includes photos

Silver Jewellery Making

Author: Machi de Waard
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782217355
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"...one of the most comprehensive beginner’s guides to jewelry silversmithing available." BOOKLIST 2/1/21 Silver Jewellery Making is a practical beginners' guide to making silver jewelry, with step-by-step projects guiding the reader through seven projects. The projects are designed to help the reader gain skills and techniques and eventually progress to making their own designs. The seven tried-and-tested projects have been developed by Janet over forty years of teaching and have been honed to develop readers' skills in a practical, doable order. The emphasis is on teaching good practice and acquiring the basic techniques and skills to give the reader a solid basis for developing their jewelry-making capabilities. Tools will be introduced for each individual project, and their uses and correct handling explained. Troubleshooting tips explain how to overcome common problems that may arise. At the conclusion of each project, there will be examples of how the skills gained can be used to make other items. The book is for those who wish to start jewelry making either on their own or as a supplement to beginners' classes.

Silversmithing for Jewellery Makers

Author: Elizabeth Bone
Publisher: Search
ISBN: 9781844487578
Category : Jewellery making
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
This authoritative and lusciously illustrated book offers a comprehensive and inspirational insight into the art and craft of silver jewellery making for today's artisan.

Metalsmithing for Jewelry Makers

Author: Jinks McGrath
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764165849
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Presents step-by-step instructions for creating a variety of metal jewelry items, with information on tools, metals and their uses, surface treatments, and specialist techniques.

Stonesetting for Contemporary Jewelry Makers

Author: Melissa Hunt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250015324
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Features traditional techniques alongside modern innovations and ready-made settings.

Small-Scale Silversmithing

Author: F J Whitelaw
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785006185
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Silversmithing is an exciting and developing craft, which combines traditional techniques with contemporary design and technology. This practical book introduces the craft with a guide to the workshop and its tools, then emphasises the importance of drawing and design before explaining key techniques and showing how they can be used in clearly illustrated projects. By keeping the individual pieces small, it explains a range of skills that can be developed and combined to make more adventurous items. It discusses transforming silver sheets or rods into three-dimensional shapes using sinking, raising and forging techniques. It teaches how to silver solder and attach handles to the rounded body of a bowl and create well-fitting seams. Nine projects illustrate the techniques in use and include making spoons, round boxes, hinged lids, drinker beakers and candlesticks.

Make Your Own Silver Jewellery

Author: Monica Weber-Butler
Publisher: White Owl
ISBN: 1526780577
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
“[A] precise and comprehensive debut, a guide to using silver metal clay . . . those serious about silver need look no further.” —Publishers Weekly This book will show you how to create silver jewellery using everyday tools, easy to obtain materials and following simple step-by-step instructions. You will explore the amazing possibilities that the combination of silver metal clay and traditional silversmithing techniques has to offer, and will learn basic aspects of design in order to develop your own unique style. You will be able to create silver pieces which capture and celebrate nature by the inclusion of botanical details, or create graceful pieces with echoes from history; you can create contemporary pieces or add a touch of whimsy to your designs. Whether you favour traditional or modern designs, when you make your own silver jewellery, the possibilities are endless. The book is full of easy to follow projects, with photographs, detailed instructions and inspiring examples. Working with silver has never been so easy! “Essential reading for anyone who wants to get involved in crafting silver jewellery.” —Books Monthly

Metalsmith Society’s Guide to Jewelry Making

Author: Corkie Bolton
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645675874
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Everything You Need to Know to Build Your Skills as an Artisan Jeweler Metalsmith Society’s Guide to Jewelry Making is the ultimate handbook to get you started on your jewelry-making journey. Corkie Bolton, jeweler extraordinaire and founder of Metalsmith Society, has compiled the ultimate compendium on the craft for beginners. You’ll get a deep dive into indispensable tools and materials needed to create a well-rounded workspace. Corkie also answers every question you might have about essential yet tricky-to-master techniques such as sawing, stamping and annealing. What’s more, through ten beginner-friendly projects, you’ll put your budding skills to the test and light the spark of inspiration for designing your own pieces. Necklace lovers will learn stonesetting and making clasps with the Thick Bezel Pendant and Simple Chain Necklace, while ring projects like the Interlocking Ring and Hidden Detail Ring will have you practicing polishing and embellishing your creations. Embark on your rewarding jewelry-making career with confidence. With this comprehensive book at your bench, you will have everything you need to get started and keep going!

Creative Gold- and Silversmithing

Author: Sharr Choate
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780517524138
Category : Goldwork
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
"Here is the definitive book on jewelry making and other customized pieces of metalcraft, covering the subject completely and containing many hundreds of how to drawings and photographs. It is a must for beginning gold and silversmiths and an indispensable reference for the experienced craftsman artist."--Dust jacket.