Jewelry Design

Before photography, lockets were decorated with miniature, handpainted portraits -- a luxury few could afford. The advent of affordable photographic...

In many countries, regulations govern the caratage of gold solders used to make jewellery and, with few exceptions, gold solder...

When making custom jewelry with any alloy, certain components within the piece are often hand made to enhance the final...

This column is from the At the Bench column that appears every month in AJM. For this project, it is...

First the stone's diameter is measured at the pavillion and a dent is made in metal for the pilot drill...

Considered to be one of the richest and most important archaeological finds in Great Britain, the Ship Burial known as...

Using a relatively inexpensive metal and casting it in an ingot mold, you can create a sophisticated design at the...

This research paper was presented at the Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference at Cranbrook Academy of Art in June,...

Concrete is a wonderful, hard, neutral, unprecious material with a real presence. And it can be successfully adapted to jewellery....

Jewelers are a restless and inquisitive group. Not content with producing sumptuous jewelry, they spray it with chemicals, dip it...

Available in a wide variety of formulas, epoxy resins are used in jewelry making as adhesives, as coatings, and for...

Box catches lend themselves to a wide range of shapes and are frequently used on chains, bracelets and cuff bracelets....

Generation Z is tech savvy, frugal, philanthropic, and globally aware, and soon its members will be shopping at a jewelry...

In 1898, Wilhelm Krische, owner of a factory that made history books and a stone printing shop, patented one of...

Today, platinum is enjoying its renaissance. In the U.S., platinum consumption has risen by more than 700% since 1990. More...

When the Babylonians observed the passage of the heavenly bodies across the firmament many thousands of years ago and believed...

There is always pressure to reduce the cost of manufactured items and carat gold jewellery is no exception to this...

Recently a woman brought an old family diamond into our store and asked to have a custom mounting made for...

People have always been fascinated with the material clay. Our forefathers believed the intelligent design of clay in some way...

Over the past forty years, jewelry making has become increasingly rich and diversified as the time-honored reliance on precious metals...

One of the most interesting things about the jewellery/metals field is that there are so many career options, so many...

The interplay between the erotic and art has featured in all periods of history, on occasion crossing the line into...

Transforming a single sheet of metal into an undulating organic form using only a hammer and stake is the art...

Adding vibrant colors to jewelry can involve any number of methods -- from careful enameling by hand to the high-tech...

As many jewelry manufacturers and goldsmiths know from hard experience, cracking in jewelry can occur at any time during its...

Many German jewelry producers have stunning ideas for design combined with a level of quality that satisfies even the most...

"My birthstone is emerald," a potential customer recently told me. "But I don't like green," she continued, "so I never...

Master jeweler Charles Loloma was a Hopi spiritual leader -- a member of the Badger Clan and a Hopi snake...

First the stone's diameter is measured at the pavillion and a dent is made in the metal for the pilot...

Did you ever imagine you'd see the day when a finely woven mesh bracelet with thousands of tiny links could...

A selected bibliography list for the jeweler - Metal working, Casting, Plating, Enamelling ,Gem Cutting, Setting, Engraving and Etching, Other...

True damascus steel is made by a casting process utilizing very high carbon steel. The material is held at or...

This paper describes a simple process of forming jump rings. These jump rings were formed from 16 guage sterling silver...

Mokume gane translated from Japanese means "wood eye metal." This rare metal lamination process was developed and used by Japanese...

Do you know why that piece of jewelry that goes around your arm is called a bracelet? Or why a...

Chasing and repousse is carried out on various surfaces using steel punches to strike and manipulate sheet metal or cast...

Carat, karat, caret, and carrot are all pronounced the same, but each has a different meaning. Carat and karat, of...

The first requirement of all catches is that they secure neckpieces and bracelets in such a way that they will...

Sascha Brastoff was known for his talent and ability in many fields of art, both performing and visual, both fine...

Tarnishing is superficial corrosion of the carat gold surface and is evident by a usually dark discolouration - the tarnish...

When questions arise about manufacturing quality gold jewelry, manufacturers are eager to talk shop with their peers and industry experts....

Since the late 60s, Gijs Bakker (b. 1942) has been influential to both Dutch and international jewelry design. His work,...

Dusty cobblestone streets traversed by oxen and donkeys pulling hay carts, anvils ringing, woodsmoke, chickens pecking next to the wooden...

Jewellery design is generally considered solely from an artistic standpoint, and the jewellery is viewed as an expression of a...

It is only within the past two decades that craft jewelry has become big business. From a marketing viewpoint, the...

In a promotional flyer from the early 1950s, Art Smith offered a "fanciful ring of space, silver and gold." The...

In this article Deborah Norton traces the rise and fall of this seminal 20th-century school. Although Bauhaus policy revolved around...

This Metalsmith's Guide to Los Angeles can be useful to metalsmiths who are new to the Los Angeles area or...

Euro Tool, Inc. offers a wide variety of innovative and standard holding device's to make working at the bench easier,...

For someone new to the jewelry industry, the sheer assortment of tools and equipment in the typical workshop can be...

The Turkish jewelry industry is booming. Last year, exports reached a record high of 1,172 billion US-$. Over the last...

Everyone knows the famous picture from the film The Seven Year Itch, of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York...

These pages contain a list of recommended tools to jewelry rendering, as well as a series of projects that I...

The South American Andes state can look back on a jewelry culture spanning over one thousand years. This has remained...

The history of jewelry in Japan is full of upheavals: it dates back more than 9,000 years and yet is...

Until fairly recently, gem cutting was one of the few areas of the world economy to remain uncontaminated by the...

For this project, the No. 1 tip was used with the ABI Pulse Arc Welder. Five tips come with the...

My skills as an artist combined with my years of experience at the bench have given me a practical approach...

Although enameling is a new art form for me, I came to it with many years of china painting experience....

Manfred Bischoff has a fascination with language. Like many Europeans of his generation, Bischoff is fluent in several languages, including...

When most people think of colored jewelry, their minds conjure visions of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. After all, jewelry makers...

One of the most difficult types of construction in jewelry is assembling a cluster of settings supported by a wire...

For four decades, Marjorie Schick has been one of the pioneers of original avant-garde jewelry. Her works are based on...

Long recognized for the ubiquitous turquoise and silver squash-blossom necklaces and concho belts, the traditional metalwork of the Southwest has...

Ed Wiener exemplifies the studio jewelry artist of the late 1940s and 50s. The first time we met, this fascinating...

Recently, collectors have discovered a body of silver jewelry, eclectic in scope—by turns serious and whimsical—creative, original and quintessentially modern....

Not so many years ago Thomas Mann figured that 2002 would be his year to retire. But the projected date...

Silversmith's Art in Peru In sixteenth-century Viceregal Peru, the area claimed by Spain that originally encompassed all of South America...

Starting in the early 1950s, Gerda Flöckinger worked to change the face of British jewelry. Others joined her fledgling crusade,...

Working on the most meticulous and precise scale, three contemporary wire artists, Barbara SilverStein, Nikki Feldbaum and Biba Schutz create...

In the last issue of Bench Magazine I demonstrated how I would go about wax model carving for this unusual...

People have gazed at adorned ears for many millennia. Discoveries in tombs and old legends tel of how ears were...

My enamel jewelry includes earrings, pins, pendants, lockets and rings done in Grisaille and Limoges techniques. Within most of the...

If you are involved with computers you know how rapidly things are changing, prices are sinking and capabilities increasing. Computer...

Platinum is a very durable metal, so prongs will last a long time. However, it is sometimes necessary to re-tip...

Urushi is the sap from a staghorn sumac tree (rhus vernicifera) which is native to East Asia. Japanese and Chinese...

The history of contemporary Canadian jewellery, like that of Canada itself, has struggled with the assimilation of foreign influences, economies...

For the past 60 years, tourists visiting Mexico have sought distinctive silver jewelry and holloware, crafted by native artisans. Although...

The European Union’s gemstone imports were up a solid 7.5 percent to €412.5 million (US$544.4 million) in 2006, mostly on...

If you're designing jewelry using CAD, understanding how the piece will be cast and then set and finished at the...

All that glitters attracts both the museum visitor and the archaeologist. Whether one is looking at tastefully displayed objects in...

It is sometimes useful to have criticism of one's work in order to develop it. While studying as an apprentice...

In 1971, excavations in a kurgan (grave mound) named Tolstaya Mogila – big barrow – in the city of Ordzonikidzhe...

Can the colored stone industry choose a standard light source from the multitude on the market?

The gold and silversmith Friedrich Becker has succeeded in uniting technology and art in a fascinating manner. Through his work...

My trips to Germany in 1980 and 1982 were the most satisfying experiences in relation to my metalwork. They were...

Sometimes working with jewelry hinges can be too taxing. And not knowing how will make your work even harder. Here's...

I came up with this system to solve some production and prioritizing problems at a small custom jewelry store. We...

Björn Weckström had a decisive influence on the idea of Finnish style. Over four decades of cooperation with Lapponia Jewellery...

Merry-Lee Rae has been making jewelry since 1966 when she joined her father in the garage while he dabbled in...

No single item is more used yet more neglected than flatware. It is used in one form or another by...

It does not enclose the precious object to conceal it, but to display it: the jewelry clasp. It protects against...

Smalt is a word used to describe ground glass when it is either mixed with oil and applied to canvas,...

Eating and drinking have been part of life forever. And people have always striven to make something special out of...

A short review of construction and soldering principles would be a good idea at this point. They're fairly basic. Principles...

In October of 1983 Angela Cummings announced that she would end a 16-year association with Tiffany & Company in order...

Five thousand years of Korean goldsmithing was interrupted from 1913 to 1953 due to the Japanese invasion and the Korean...

The accomplishments of Paul A. Lobel, industrial designer, metalsmith, sculptor and cartoonist/illustrator, may be viewed as the quintessential American success...

A pretty red brick building from the 19th century is located not far from the city center of Geneva, a...

Harry Bertoia was not simply a metalsmith or a furniture designer, sculptor or printmaker, artist or craftsman. He was all...

Now this is a truly attractive book. One of those coffee table type books dripping with gorgeous National Geographic quality...

Possibly the most controversial jewelry artist now working in the United States, Keith Lewis Is undergoing a transition from propagandist...

The other week a friend came by the shop for some jewelry related lathe help. She was using a ring...

Claire Falkenstein is a master of linear metal sculpture. Hers is not an art of solid form, as relating to...

Roads connect. The various cultures along the Silk Road are spread out like pearls along a string. Its name is...

The history of the School for American Craftsmen (SAC) can be seen as a microcosm of the history of the...

Ask a seasoned bench jeweler how many rings he or she has sized and they'll probably give you a figure...

Looking down the long corridors of time, the ancient Etruscans emerge as a powerful people whose economic and social development...

Ask any experienced jeweler, and they'll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to...

To begin with, it might be important to present some background material on Kyoto itself. The Emperor Kammu founded Kyoto...

The eclipse of nature makes it all the more captivating, especially for artists. Nature has been a topic that cultural...

The imposing seven-story Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, often photographer for architecture magazines because of its unique design, juts up...

Dutch jewelry designer Emmy van Leersum, who died November 2, 1984, had been internationally recognized for over 20 years. Her...

It is a rare and most welcome event when a technical innovation is accompanied by an esthetic revelation. This is...

The Helen Williams Drutt Collection offers a personal view of the development in fine art jewelry over the past 20...

Silver has been a part of American domestic ritual and tradition since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when bourgeois families...

This 14 karat white and yellow gold two tone bracelet has hollow wire links. The link near the clasp which...

The bright, white metal exudes purism, suggests technical aptitude and hints at progress, zeitgeist and perfection. Jewelry made of stainless...

As the global economy expands and the Internet gives us access to faraway destinations in a matter of minutes, there...

Throughout history, beads have been treated as valuable personal possessions. More than thirty-thousand years ago, Cro-Magnon man strung pierced bear...

What he wanted to be was a painter, although he was also thinking about being a graphic artist or book...

Firtz Falk, the curator of the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, was the first to call it the Padua School, back in 1983....

This is a continuing series of metalsmith's guides to cities, regions and museums throughout the world. The purpose of these...

One function of art is to challenge the status quo-to persuade, shock, or seduce us into seeing the world, and...

Victoria Lansford on the art of filigree—Russian or otherwise BOX: The Art of Handcraft Every jewelry designer can pinpoint the...

For Giampaolo Babetto, the student occupation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 1968 was a harsh blow....

The first American exhibition of Kayserzinn Pewter, the trademark for art pewter ware manufactured at the turn of the century...

As the only magazine of its kind, Metalsmith is many things to many people. In an effort to encourage not...

A few years ago, Jewelers Circular Magazine reported that over 75% of all retail jewelers in America lose money on...

Trade fairs are still the most important platform to find information on trends and new products. Direct discussions between existing...

Ivory and bone have been used by humans for sculptures and jewelry purposes from very early times. The Upper Paleolithic...

Gems are a lot of fun to render, but because they require some precision, you might want to render a...

For the last couple years The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro To Enameling" workshops that are designed to...

This is the second in a series of articles on the art and skill of rendering jewelry and small metal...

No other precious metal has experienced such a varied history over the course of time. Discovered early on and appreciated...

Even if France is not offering the same high level of education in fine jewelry making as in certain other...

Mary Lee Mary Lee Hu has worked with wire - looping, wrapping, weaving and most notably twining—for the past 22...

The fact that the jewelry by Turkish designer Sevan Bicakci looks like they come straight from the legend of Ali...

Memories of Tony Relationships with individuals are born in a variety oFways - my friendship with Tony Papp began at...

Imagine walking into your studio and having the skill and confidence to create anything you desire. From the tiniest ladys...

This article covers methods and techniques for hand fabrication, soldering and assembly for a custom designed 950 palladium and cultured...

Jewelry making is a big job. That is that there is a lot to know and a lot to learn....

From the ancient Greeks to contemporary art – this Vienna-based enamel workshop excites its clients throughout the world with artistic...

The doors to the craft show have opened, and customers are beginning to make their way down the aisle. One...

In this issue I'm going to walk you through the creation of a ring with two different colors of gold....

Cast hinges are a very important part of much production jewelry work, partly because hinge assembly on such pieces is...

Full eBook.48 Pages: Jewelry and metalsmithing are hard work, and also very rewarding. There is great pleasure in creating with...

Rome. Truly the eternal city, where every monument reflects simultaneously the past and the present. As Goethe so aptly states...

Jewelry artist Michael Boyd fills his cup with newfound forms and shapes. Well known for his contemporary roll-on cuff bracelets...

Some years ago, I was working on a cloisonné piece using silver wire on copper in my home studio and...

To date, Orpheus and Spartacus are probably the best-known representatives of a people whose traces have been lost in history....

Porcelain – for over 600 years a well kept secret of the Chinese, before it was discovered for a second...

With a simple corrugation tool and basic metalsmithing skills, you can make these great earrings. The newest toy in my...

Active as an enamelist since 1957, Annemarie Davidson has made functional objects - from plates and boxes to ashtrays, trivets,...

When setting a round brilliant diamond in a four prong setting there is some debate among stone setters on how...

The strength of Computer Aided Design &  Manufacturing is similar to that of any other tool on the bench:it is...

Peru, Land of the Inca, the Sun Worshippers, Land of Gold (the "Sweat of the Sun"), Land of Silver (the...

It takes a powerful psyche to cope with and build on the kind of support and inspiration that has surrounded...

The fascinating depth and quality of the intesive colors that are created by melting stained glass on a metal surface...

Votives are objects offered to a deity in exchange for favor and in the cultures of southern Italy and Sicily,...

From 1988 to 1989, German goldsmith Hermann Jünger was celebrated in his native country with a major retrospective of his...

A knot is what you create when you tangle up a piece of string and join up the two ends,...

I first discovered Allan Adler's Silversmithing Shop about 23 years ago when I arrived in Southern California to begin my...

"There are no rules there. At one point there will be an idea...and I will find a material that is...

This technique involves the blending of several transparent and opalescent colors on a background of flux flecked with white, with...

When we became engaged two years ago, we bought a Niessing tension ring, a simple band in which a diamond...

Visitors to craft shows may know Steven Ford and David Forlano by their company name, CityZenCane, the polymer clay guys,...

A changed world and new perceptions of life determined the development of jewelry art in the period before the Second...

Due to their magical variety of color, opals are evocative of a solidified rainbow. These gemstones seem to have captured...

In our April issue, we reported the 189-piece collection (including 9 Fabergé Imperial Eggs) owned by the late Malcolm Forbes...

The Kremlin Armory houses unique collections of precious items that mirror the artistic wealth of the country and the relations...

Line art, such as logos, family crests, text or numbers, cartoon characters, and even sketches can be quickly and easily...

From 1919-23 the Bauhaus also had a jewelry workshop run as a private enterprise by Naum Slutzky. He was on...

Earl Pardon's work has an elusive quality that is difficult to describe, yet this quality has motivated him throughout years...

No other precious gem is as familiar — and coveted — as diamond. Learn the legends and histories behind some...

This paper describes a process that combines techniques researched by others with a few well known facts about the properties...

Clear floral motifs or forms like from a dream world, mystic color contrasts with soft waves, patterns that appear like...

At GLJW it iss not unusual to see the sales staff wearing jewelers aprons and optivisors at one of the...

Kiff Slemmons: Uncommon Means of Measure Kiff Slemmons’s jewelry is created as much for the mind as for the body....

This project shows a challenging repair and reconstruction of earrings with a broken Omega clip and heat sensitive gemstones.

A representative cross-section of jewelry design in Switzerland in the last century, entitled "The Art of Jewelry in Switzerland in...

In 1946 a small band of metal enthusiasts in Toronto, Canada, formed the Metal Arts Guild (MAG) "to promote and...

Phillip Baldwin Now that The Year of American Craft is here, the list of artists deserving immediate recognition and overdue...

Richly detailed portrait sculptures of great American heroes—in solid pewter, solid brass and fine enamels. An heirloom chess set to...

It seems only just, when so many barriers are collapsing, that one of the more prophetic artists of the late...

Opinions are divided when it comes to beetles: while some people flee as soon as one of these six-legged creatures...

Recently, a woman brought in her diamonds and asked to have a ring made with them. Her requirements were very...

Sometimes when you are looking for one thing, you discover something else. The unexpected can change your course and you...

The most intriguing characteristic of Arline Fisch's work, particularly the textile constructions, is their utter transformation when worn. What may...

From autodidact to prize-winning designer: 30 years ago, the Brazilian national Antonio bernardo founded his jewelry production firm in Rio...

Jessica Calderwood after having stepped upon some magic toes in history gives renewed credential to the field of enameling in...

For setting round brilliant gemstones in prongs, many setters and bench jeweler generalists use a 90 degree low speed bearing...

The art of gem cutting (glyptics in Greek) is one of the oldest testimonies to how installed, fascinating miniatures can...

At Rhode Island School of Design’s recent exhibitions of work by graduates of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, objects...

A taboo was broken when the word ”feminist" was used in the review of "Form Beyond Function" in Metalsmith (Spring...

Breslau-born Dorothea Pruhl (in 1937) has been dealing with jewelry as a statement and the design of jewelry for four...

Engine Turned Fine Silver for Basse Taille I do engine turning on precious metal. It is a joy. The finished...

Anyone working in a creative field knows just how strong the influence between the direct environment and each individual’s work...

If you wish to create filigree jewelry using porcelain, up to now you had been forced to make a mass...

… And so it came to pass that of the mostly sons and occasional daughters of the Heroes, there was...

In the three years since her retirement from 31 years of teaching, Ramona Solberg has had three exhibitions of her...

"It is allowing machines to be our masters and not our servants that so insures the beauty of life nowadays."...

The following text is edited from two interviews taped in 1982 with Irena Brynner, one by Dorothy Van Arsdale in...

Contemporary Japanese Jewellery, In order to introduce largely unknown contemporary Japanese jewelry to the West, British jeweler Simon Fraser, working...

Everybody knows Pat Flynn. Pat Flynn, the jewelerly jeweler. Pat Flynn the goldsmith’s goldsmith. The bear of a man from...

Christian Schmidt is infamous for his contribution to the 1964 "Fiber, Clay, Metal" exhibition at the St. Paul Art Center,...

It is named after a great architect, located in the southern part of one of Europe’s most interesting cities and...

In modern-day fine jewelry, the most commonly used stone material is round brilliant-cut (RBC) diamond melee. Widely available in a...

Considering metals prices continue to be sky high, it's no surprise that plating companies' phones are ringing off the hook....

When I began writing about American metalsmithing and jewelry and researching influential artists of the 1970s, the name Miyé Matsukata...

Machines have always fascinated Mary Ann Scherr – first the drill press, bandsaw and oxyacetylene torch, and now the computer;...

Santa Fe jewelry designer Kathleen O’Rourke is describing a move whose opening shot shows a Celtic queen riding horseback, her...

Professions and professional skills change over the years. In this context, it is an undeniable fact that computers have revolutionized...

Click on the image to enlarge and download and you can use this layout form or template to help layout...

This is the second in a series of articles about production jewelers. This installment concentrates on design versus saleability, the...

The latest watch and design trends in 2004 make it obvious that the trend is going towards larger casing sizes...

The natural beauty of this white, bright and light palladium ring is enhanced with hand engraving of initials done in...

It seems like a lot of laser repairs involve emeralds. I recall the Indiana Jones movies where "Indy" comes face...

Once upon a time, all art was about nature, the simplification or elaboration of natural forms. Egyptians assembled leaves of...

Barney Jette and wife Nancy Ball have built a retail success story, solely focused on jewelry featuring Jettes design. The...

The 10th Brazil Gem Show was, in many respects, a show reborn. Held March 15-18 in Governador Valadares, Brazil, the...

Making jewelry is the perfect confluence of art and science. It’s where aesthetic and inspiration meet application and practicality. Computer-aided...

In recent years, the design of furniture has invited experimentation by practitioners in a wide range of artistic disciplines. While...

On January 7, 1921, a son was born to Rex of the Sand and Tobacco Clan and Rachael Loloma of...

Jewelers redefining what it means to source responsibly Martin Taber is happy. “I am living in a world where people...

In many cultures, exchanging rings as a symbol of eternal togetherness is an integral element of the wedding rituals. Other...

Flush setting, or "gypsy setting" as it is sometimes known, is a somewhat exacting and delicate setting technique. The main...

Professor Hermann Jünger, one of the most defining personalities in goldsmith art over the second half of the last century,...

The real Alexander Calder is to be found in the intimate work – the toys, gadgets, jewelry – those delightful...

When Venetian glassmakers sold out their state secrets to Czech glassmakers, Jablonec began its hegemony in glass beads. The region...

This wonderful style of setting has been around the world of stone setting for many, many years. As you can...

Regardless of whether it is question of machines, tools, equipment, working materials and chemicals, findings, gemstones or pearls for gold...

Sand casting is among the oldest techniques of duplicating items of jewelry. It is simple in terms of equipment, but...

Along with a desire to know how things work and how to do things, I have had a lifelong fascination...

Nothing is simple in Tokyo—not the language, not the culture, not the geography. Even getting information is a major task...

Michael Rowe uses functional containers as a base from which to explore formal studies of space, form and balance, which...

The most trusted way for Jewelers, Artists, Craftsmen ' Metalsmiths to discover state-of-the-art products and services has fundamentally changed. Word-of-mouth has become a Metalsmiths most efficient way of learning about new products...

When I sought out a writing project Metalsmith proposed Phillip Fike, a founding member of SNAG, and resident of my...

Since her first year of studies at the Edinburgh College of Art, Katharina Bianca Vones has been deluged with awards...

Golden, white, and rose-colored pearls of dubious quality dangle from her outstretched arms. At least 20 more strands are draped...

Upon entering his studio, anyone familiar with Heinz Brummel’s work will recognize the playful geometry of the vignette making up...

People who think exclusively of geometric forms when they hear the name Alberto Zorzi only know half the story. His...

This is a HIDI, (How I Do It). It is not the only way to make a piece like this,...

The cry of the rejected: “Why?” is the loudest single continuing lament heard after every juried show. Even when juror’s...

In February 2006, some unusual rubies began to appear in the gem market in Bangkok, Thailand. They were both attractive...

Although the political situation has caused a reorientation and reevaluation of the entire society for years, not very much has...

Charon Kransen, a New Yorker by choice, has dedicated himself with passion to innovative jewelry design – he has been...

A provocative dilemma evolves when one attempts to use the written word to describe things which are in essence ineffable....

The Swedish silversmith and designer Sigurd Persson retained his most typical characteristics to a ripe old age: his creativity and...

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the 1997 Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Greg Campbell, David...

In 1996, Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, introduced artists and jewelers in the United States to Precious Metal Clay...

Jewish ceremonial objects have been in production since ancient times. Periodic migrations, voluntary and otherwise, distributed the Jewish people throughout...

Richard Reinhardt's best-known pieces today are silver bracelets, constructed in concave or convex forms that curve smoothly and logically in...

Where else, if not in Hamburg, this unique riverside city, has jewelry earned a platform that exceeds the bounds of...

When Larry Bruno built his new store across from picturesque Springfield Falls in western Pennsylvania, he knew he had lucked...

Large and comfortable – this is the style of the rings created by the Munich-based jewelry designer Angela Hübel. The...

A petrified miracle of creation – most deserving of this kind of finely sensual description is agate. Agate is found...

February 11, 1954: “Traces of work appear to be something akin to ornaments of contemporary society. If you, Klaus Ullrich,...

Jade Snow Wong 1922 – 2006 Jade Snow Wong, an extraordinarily accomplished enamelist, ceramist, and author, died on Thursday, March...

Editor's Note: Looking ahead at the coming year, it's just as important to consider the challenges facing the jewelry industry...

The various education centers for jewelry design offer very different ways of completing a course of stuides to become a...

Last fall, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee hosted a retrospective of the work of Helen Shirk. Nearly...

The JCK Show in Las Vegas from June 1 to 5, 2007 is seen around the world as one of...

A woman's job evaluation included the observation that she showed unmistakable signs of penis envy. "The unmistakable signs were. ....

Those of us who have been following Wendy Ramshaw's work, for close to 20 years, hove come to anticipate the...

In the Spring 1959 issue of Craft Horizons, entitled "U.S. Crafts in This Industrial Society," Editor Rose Slivka divides the...

When enamelist Bill Helwig celebrated the half-century mark in July of 1988, his wife Lenore Davis, asked the celebrants to...

This book is written as a guideline for the potential buyer of gemstones that are mined from the earth or...

Some designers find inspiration in the night sky, others in the natural world, and some in flowing architectural lines. This...

The jewelry industry today is not what it was 15 or 20 years ago. From CAD/CAM to inventory control software,...

Platinum casting with gemstones in place has been the latest development before the end of the second millennium. It has...

On the second floor of a historic wooden building in an elegant shopping area of affluent Concord, Massachusetts, is found...

Small and intricate, they contribute significantly to easing the workload of the goldsmith. From classical ball clasps for the repair...

Orsolya Ráski Nagy and Daniel Nagy Splendor Jewellery Budakeszi, Hungary First Place, Professional Excellence (4 or More Years in Business)...

This past fall, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee mounted a retrospective exhibition of the work of master...

This article features manufacturing steps for a custom designed 14-karat yellow gold and diamond coin pendant. The coin pendant featured...

Fred Woell's spirit was born in and of the sixties. His molten slogans register, graffitt-ilike, upon the collective "wall" of...

This article was written by Margaret De Patta in 1948 and never published. It is printed here with the kind...

This article features the manufacturing steps for a one-of-a-kind free-form pendant designed and created by Barney Jette. The center stone...

Early in 1984 Jack called to see if I'd be interested in creating an anniversary gift to celebrate twenty-five years...

It is refreshing to see a designer of Betty Helen Longhi's ability break away from the museum mentality and move...

It takes an interesting person to make interesting jewelry and Holly Lee fits the bill. Originally from a family that...

Within the framework of the competition “Jewelry plus silicon carbide”, participants were asked to use the aesthetic properties of a...

There are parallels in many areas: a carefree mix of style and cultural influences characterizes the overall trends in the...

Fabergé – the name carries special significance even today. It is inextricably linked with the glamour of pre-revolution Russia. Fabergé’s...

The delicious paradox of quantum physics is that matter exists simultaneously as particle and as wave. Much of Reiko Ishiyama's...

“…GOLD – EVERYWHERE THE GLINT OF GOLD.” THESE WERE THE WORDS RECORDED BY HOWARD CARTER TO DESCRIBE HIS INITIAL GLIMPSE...

After experimenting with the various techniques of enameling I decided that champleve jewelry best suited my interests. Being very familiar...

An article in the February 19, 1982 issues of the San Francisco Chronicle ironically suggests that "No body of water,...

The classics never go out of style. Classicism as a design principle has come to mean simplicity, proportion, restraint, and...

Masks & Facades – Perspectives on St. Petersburg is a book handling themes of jewelry and the pleasure of wearing...

When using CAD/CAM products like Gemvision's Matrix, there are a number of "virtual" techniques to achieve renderings that more closely...

When the Tea and Coffee Piazza was introduced to the US by the Max Protetch Gallery in the early 1980s,...

What is a trend? It is easier to answer what it is not: a designer’s inspired idea, which brings immediate...

A country whose flag is comprised of four different colors must love vivacity. Brazil and the Brazilians most certainly do....

Growing variety defines Portugal’s still relatively young jewelry design scene, which draws on other applied arts. Portugal’s history of contemporary...

The unique style of the designers Björn Weckström, Zoltan Popovits, Christophe Burger, and Pekka Hirvonen has been the creative imprint...

Experimentelles Schmuck design (Experimental Jewelry Design) is the name of a project implemented by the Berlin-based painter and goldsmith Werner...

Kenya s new color-change garnet performs miracles in different lighting environments. In fluorescent light, it looks the bluest any garnet...

Joe Wood says he was first attracted to jewelry for its economy – the opportunity to focus a great deal...

In the Ojibway language, Toronto means "meeting place." At this site on the northern shore of Lake Ontario 18th-century French...

Editor’s Note: This is the full text of a speech, submitted by Florentina Nichols, given by Christine Hew at the...

This article was completed just weeks before Robert von Neumann's accidental fall and subsequent death on April 23, 1984. Books...

We are often drawn to the naïve sensibility of self-taught artists in any medium. The fresh, unassuming quality of their...

It's no wonder that as precious metals prices have risen to new heights over the past few years, jewelry castings...

Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry is becoming a trend and may as will be dominating men's fashion as noted by  ...

Cool, glistening, and vaguely human, Jennifer Crupi's sculpture and jewelry arouse curiosity even as they evoke fear. While the power...

Daniel Pedersons planishing hammer came into the possession of William Frederick in a way that still provokes emotion. Pederson, a...

In a poem of the T’ang dynasty, the cultivated man who eats his meal from a polished bowl gazes into...

Known for his contemporary designs, Andrew Costen of Costen Catbalue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, enjoys occasionally returning to his...

Chang's work is intentionally anthropomorphic, disturbingly so. She likens her technique to that of a plastic surgeon, shaping and sculpting...

The assumption the business economist and philosopher Dr. Ulrich Freiesleben invented two revolutionary new diamond cuts out of pure boredom...

Everyone has long seen gems wrapped in small wire cages with hanging devices, and more recently, the Dichroic glass pendants...

Ask someone to define "fine jewelry" and you'll usually hear something about gold, platinum, diamonds, and other traditionally "precious" materials....

This article describes step by step instructions how forged ring shank is done as described by Bradney W. Simon. For...

14-karat yellow gold cultured freshwater pearl and diamond earrings will be repaired as a demonstration of the new Mini Pulse...

Electrum Gallery was founded by Barbara Carlidge in June of 1971. She was prompted by the significant changes in the...

The idea that she should become a goldsmith actually came from her biology teacher. Could this be the reason why...

Gilbert Poillerat French ironwork of the 1920s, as exemplified in the work of Edgar Brandt, represented a pinnacle of technical...

Lisa Gralnick makes jewelry of rare power from imagined artifacts of our own time. Its extraordinary impact derives from her...

Kum-Boo (rhymes with “loom low”) is a Korean appliqué technique of surface decoration in which pure gold foil is fused...

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...

Skeleton watch movements are small chronomatic works of art. Made by hand, they demonstrate the high level of craftsmanship involved...

Lodz is the second biggest city in Poland. It is renowned for being a center of the textiles industry which...

Faults or miracles? In general, gemstones are held to be more precious if they have as little “contamination” with other...

For nearly 30 years, Ambery-Smith has been using architecture as an inspiration for her work. Her name has become synonymous...

I attended a school for goldsmiths in Norway and worked as an apprentice for a total of 3 years before...

Andrzej Bielak emerged as a gallery owner from his production and design of jewelry. Together with his wife Barbara Kanska...

Laser engravers can do wonders for a jewelry manufacturer's hallmarking process, making it more efficient and leaving a crisp, clear...

Once more the realm of engineers and number-crunchers, CAD over the years has become more user-friendly and artisan-intuitive. Similarly, small-shop,...

Standing in her forming studio, surrounded by hammers, stakes, and photo equipment, metalsmith Cynthia Eid is experiencing a moment of...

Making prong settings for items that can not be fired in place. I would like to take you on an...

This is a method to reduce technical problems which one repeatedly experienes. We all find during the learning process that...

The new campus is still a building site and will most likely not be ready for opening until 2009. However,...

Chunghi Choo captures her joyful creativity in sensuous forms and beguiling surfaces, but, despite this sumptuousness, simplicity harmony and tranquility...

Historically gem possession has been reserved for wealthy, royalty, or high religious leaders. It has always been human nature to...

As many and varied as the reasons may be to publicize a message or to make a very personal statement,...

Robert Lee Morris: The End of an Era Seventeen years ago Robert Lee Morris opened Artwear in the Soho section...

While firms in the US have busied themselves for decades with marketing goals and tasks, the topic was first taken...

Light and filigree, yet robust and elastic: feathers are one of nature’s true works of art. This magnificently colored dress...

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1986 Spring issue of...

Enamel technique has progressed in a logical and practical direction through the ages, advancing when inspiration, need or new technology...

Getting a superior fit on your next custom ring order could be just a few mouse clicks away. Superfit Inc.,...

I was introduced to enameling during a required Enamels course at the Bezalel Academy Jewelry Department. We were given an...

Claus Bury's rejection of his immediate past, a long standing European tradition in goldsmithing, and his defection to the fine...

Flamboyant colors and forms ranging from the simple to the expansive characterize the sculptural jewelry of the American metalsmith and...

The Green Vault is Europe’s most magnificent treasure trove. It holds masterpieces of jewelry and goldsmith art as well as...

A recent graduate who is selected straight out of school for a book portrait, international awards and distinctions, students invited...

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Due to a recent comprehensive exhibition at the San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, we reintroduce to our readers...

Pat Pruitt of Paguate, New Mexico, has been working with stainless steel for over a decade. Three years ago, he...

The Northern California Enameling Guild ("NCEG") and the ACCI Gallery recently sponsored an excellent show of works from around the...

Hidden symbol... Allegorical motifs appear in various forms on jewelry and items of grandeur from the Renaissance and Baroque. They...

The very idea of wearing a 15 meter long, perfectly folded and starched collar is virtually inconceivable today. Yet these...

Since earning a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983, Enterline has narrowed her focus to a...

Whether they are cable, balloon, Maderia, rose, rolo or wheat chain, chains can be worn in almost any way. As...

Rarely do we think of jewelry as a matter of life and death. On the contrary, ornament is typically perceived...

At the 17th JCK Show in Las Vegas (May 30 – June 3) the elite of the international jewelry scene...

Practicing specific procedures for pre-finishing and polishing of 950 palladium will make a stunning difference in the final presentation of...

Over the last several years museums from around the country have been quietly purchasing sterling hollow ware made by Cleveland...

Jewelry artist Steff Korsage followed her own determined path to find her own distinct voice, making hollow forms from metal...

Ardagh now is scarcely more than a place-name; it is in County Limerick in Ireland. In 1868, while a peasant...

This is an excerpt from an interview with Stanley Lechtzin about the life of Olaf Skoogfors. Olaf Skoogfors and Stanley...

A swirl of myths and sagas surround this clear stone, which burns, releasing a beguiling, aromatic scent. The interior of...

The sun rises over the tree line and spreads its light across the fields. The horse, donkey, and pot-bellied pig...

At mid-career, goldsmith Glenda Arentzen still produces jewelry with the freshness that has been her hallmark for a quarter of...

The ECO-Maxi, first introduced in Basel, represents a whole new machine concept: the world’s first single machine capable of three...

The term avant-garde is freighted with baggage from its source in military language. Consider the implications of applying the idea...

We all know them, the classic flowery and animal motifs made of ivory, which at the start of last century...

The brain child of a private art-craft dealer, Denise Renard-Honhon, this exhibition presented 22 of Belgium's contemporary jewelry designers. The...

What does time look like? It has a round face with two hands that go round incessantly. But for creative...

In northern Greece, sometime after the death of Alexander the Great, a master goldsmith fashioned this unusual medallion with its...

It has been decades since .jewelers have started claiming they were artists, but the long legacy of craft-as-design continues to...

Crushed tin foil, marred tintypes, rusted cans—some must have thought it looked like garbage. In 1967, this detritus of our...

Daniela: The thing about the jewelry is that it’s not just a little picture. It’s everything that surrounds it and...

Solveig Haukaas started to work in an enamel workshop in Bergen, Norway when she was near 17 years old. One...

We know only the images of a desecrated land. Spent, inaccessible and worn by a decade old war. Whatever was...

Matt Stuller and Jeff High first started talking seriously about the idea that would become CounterSketch Studio in 2008. The...

THERE IS A LEGEND surrounding the defeat and surrender of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 which describes how the Commander...

T-splines, a plug-in for Rhinoceros CAD software and bundled with Matrix 7 and above, is a great modeling tool for...

This page contains a gemstone guide to common abrasives used near gemstones; their usage, hardness rate and effects compiled by...

One fundamental quality for a successful designer is the ability to manage a solo career, battling to establish ideas in...

It was about seven years ago, I was living in Paris, spending a typical Sunday afternoon scouring the flea markets...

When I asked him who Kenneth Bates is, he laughed and replied "a simple dirt farmer from New England." However,...

Wrinkles may be undesirable on the face, yet folds are present in many different forms in art. Folds are created...

Jewelry maker and studio boss Barbara Heinrich keeps business strategies and artistic expression in harmony while creating jewelry designs that...

Someone once called Donald Stuart a Renaissance Man, an that doesnt seem too far from the truth. In a career...

The works of the British environmental sculptor Andy Goldsworthy are never actually complete, but are always either in the process...

Saara Hopea-Untracht died on Monday, the 25th of June this year. She lived and worked in Porvoo, Finland where she...

Five German jewelers who chose not to follow the traditional vocational training of "master goldsmith," but rather opted to study...

The principle of bi-metal casting is really very simple: A wax model is invested, cast and finished. A secondary wax...

The Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim possesses one of the most remarkable collections of modern jewelry. This exhibition of works, which...

Well designed 950 palladium jewelry plays to the strengths of this unique metal -- the aesthetics of its light, bright,...

Florence is world-famous as the cradle of the Renaissance. Yet in the capital of Tuscany many think that this great...

The 60s and 70s were an exciting time in the development of jewelry making in Great Britain. Until the, the...

The Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim possesses one of the most remarkable collections of modern jewelry. This exhibition of works, which...

Björn Weckström, a Finnish designer who has enjoyed a virtually unparalleled opportunity in his native country, was the keynote speaker...

Plastic is not a cheap, surrogate material for her jewelry art in the eyes of the Berlin-based designer Svenja John....

When human beings started using natural objects for practical and aesthetic purposes, horn and tortoise shell played a dominant role....

In a speech recently delivered at the Platinum Day Symposium, entitled Evolution of a Design, Ms. Evans detailed her affinity...

A dark room paired with elements of light makes contemporary jewelry glow in Andronikos Sagiannos’ Gallery in Athens. He opened...

Possibly of another time and almost certainly of another place, Hal or Harold Hasselschwert enamels entice the imagination with the...

English enamels, in the genre also widely classed as Battersea work [after the initial place of their manufacture] were profusely...

An artist's studio can tell a story about the life and attitudes of the creative soul who inhabits the space....

One of the major perplexing points expressed about contemporary art jewelry is the question of wearability – or, more properly,...

Etuis, cartons, boxes, sacks or caskets – there is a large selection of packagin. They are appreciated by goldsmiths and...

What started ten years ago as youthful pin jewelry is now becoming a valuable line. After all, Ehinger-Schwarz, the firm...

Design as an effective “added value” enables large companies in the jewelry industry to opt out of the increasing price...

The life and work of Mark Stanitz are a study in balances and contrasts. His physical life is lived in...

Jewelry was never on his mind—at least not while he was studying art and anthropology in college. It was filmmaking...

When I returned from Europe in 1951, my friend Margaret de Patta called and invited me to join a group...

The Department of Gemstone and Jewelry Design of the University of Applied Sciences of Trier is the only one of...

Pál Tóth, a wildlife painter, graphic artist, and enameler from Pusztaszer, Hungary, has been working with glass on metal since...

The Flat Topped Solitaire Setting is a popular style setting that is slightly more complicated to set than the standard...

This is a continuing series on galleries that specialize in jewelry and metalwork. The Yaw Gallery is owned and operated...

Lisel Salzer, 99, Seattle Artist Who Fled Nazis by Sheila Farr, Seattle Times art critic from The Seattle Times, Tuesday,...

"Culture of materials," an expression originating from the early 20th-century teaching of Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, defines the artist's deliberate...

Several disparate techniques and a clear personal philosophy came together over a period of years to produce these extraordinary pieces....

What were you doing in June 1971? Are you still doing it today, 25 years later, and in the same...

His roots lie both in France, the land of Haute Couture, and also in Africa, the continent of tradition. Joining...

Deborah Norton interviewed Caroline Broadhead regarding her recent retrospective at the Crafts Council in London and her recent change from...

This two-part series highlights tips and techniques, tools and accessories and procedures for custom making the 18 karat yellow gold...

Archetypal images in sheet-constructed holloware, the vessels of Robly Glover give concrete form to the most ethereal and intuitive of...

Barring punctuality, Germany and Japan don’t seem to have a lot of things in common culturally. Still, the ties that...

I received this opal from a woman who had cut it years ago. Her customer was aware it had a...

This practical tool-in-a-book combines instruction on rendering techniques with unique guides that assist designers as they conceive jewelry and other...

On September 13, 1990, Adda Husted-Andersen, familiarly known as Andy, died in Copenhagen, Denmark, her native land. She was a...

An old crafts skill in a new light: a touch of nostalgia is evident in the guilloche dials or cases,...

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1985 Winter issue of...

This article covers techniques for making this custom designed 14-karat white and 22-karat yellow gold granulated pendant for a customers...

For more than 20 years Judith Hoyt has parsed the human figure in metal and mixed media. Beginning with a...

In mid-April of 2008, the SUNY-New Paltz MFA Metal program suspended its rigorous schedule for about a week. What were...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Summer issue of the...

Creativity is problem-solving, a skill based on the conscious and/or unconscious recombination and juxtaposition of information derived from diverse sources...

Success in Silver Even as a child, he wanted to be an artist - today he is an internationally renowned...

Some people keep written diaries, others carry a camera, while others use the latest in video technology to record their...

This article is an interview with jewelry designer Mark Loren. Read on to get his insights and genius behind his...

Two gold brooches arrive in the post – each bear an applied spiral on the surface not unlike Brancusi’s symbol...

This article covers techniques for making an 18-karat double domed yellow gold pendant. The front side will have a bezel...

Greg Stopka and his wife Lee began JewelSmiths 18 years ago with a belief they could succeed by providing jewelry...

Many galleries have tried to exhibit artistic jewelry in the past, but only few remained. They have gained international reputation...

Clear air, vast landscapes, steel blue skies, mysterious sparkling lakes, a dark blue sea and unspoiled nature – the landscape...

The measurement of time has passed through many stages. From water clocks and candle clocks, hour glasses and clockwork through...

William Underhill came to bronze pots just as his teacher at the University of California at Berkeley Peter Voulkos was...

John Cage was a pioneer of modern sound art with his idea of incorporating complete silence and accidental everyday noise...

While Surrealism has had a major impact on how we look at 20th-century art, the same cannot be said for...

More than 3000 years ago, someone spread powdered glass onto metal, probably gold, and subjected it to sufficient heat to...

Tone Vigeland’s oeuvre is contradiction objectified. Her jewelry is a visual discourse between opposites: large-small, hard-soft, rigid-fluid, tight-loose, inertia-movement, stricture-freedom,...

The jewelry industry has seen a veritable flood of new technologies in recent years—from CAD/CAM and laser welders to new...

In 1898, Wilhelm Krische, owner of a factory that made history books and a stone printing shop, patented one of...

With little more than an anvil and a small box of tools, successive generations of jewelers in West Africa have...

The first pages of contemporary Italian jewelry were written some half a century ago in Padua, by the enterprising pioneer:...

The track record of the modern watch was when the art of watch making mutated from a more or less...

Kimonos have neither pockets nor button. Things such as wallets or small, lacquered boxes with lots of compartments (inro), containers...

What is a jewel? I like to think of a jewel as a bauble that looks precious and shiny and...

The following are excerpts from a panel discussion chaired by Lois Etherington Betteridge at the Society of North American Goldsmiths’...

With his international exhibition concept, which supports and promotes dialogue between foreign jewelry artists and those from Germany, Udo Adam-Pasquale...

Born in Bredsjo, Sweden, June 27, 1930, Olaf Skoogfors initially came to the United States when he was four years...

Dorothee Striffler has made her choice: the square is far and away her favorite form. And, there are good reasons...

When making a pendant the bail should be something that is incorporated into the design of the pendant if at...

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1986 Fall issue of...

It’s easy to name your favorite gemstone or metal to work in, but what if you had to name your...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1991 Summer issue of the...

Having turned 80 with the spring this year, Fridl Blumenthal qualifies as a grand old lady of metalwork. Like grande...

The renowned jewelry and watch manufacturer Bunz will celebrate its 30th anniversary in June 2005. Since the company was launched...

Ken Vickerson’s jewellery is a study in balance. While respected as a consummate craftsman, a deep philosophical streak compels this...

Standard sterling silver is not a perfect material to work with firescale adds extra production costs and the tarnishing characteristic...

Discover the 2017 Top Jewelry Trends in gold, silver, and platinum—and an update on the metals markets as compiled by...

Design ideas often begin one way, then evolve into something different. Such was the case with Robin Waynee's two-sided palladium...

Now that we have done all the necessary preliminary "raising of beads" and "line-cutting" in the last issue, we are...

Color is once more restored to jewelry. The playfulness and the romantic reminiscence of the current design appear to draw...

Dulla crochets niobium wire into airy beads and necklaces studded with Swarovski crystals. The result is jewelry that is bright,...

At a time marked by an international revival of the blacksmith's art, the Samuel Yellin exhibition at the Federal Reserve...

"Bright colors we can find only in nature, quality craftsmanship that will outlast the seasons, and a promise to do...

The merchant ship that sank off the coast of Turkey over 3,300 years ago and that divers salvaged in 10...

Cheuk Ying Kwan Hong Kong Design Institute Hong Kong First Place, Future of the Industry Cheuk Ying Kwan, a student...

People have adorned their bodies all round the globe since the dawn of time. They drew on paints, scars, tattoos,...

Their design is racy, their charisma immense and their enthusiasm is catching: young watch brands are kicking up a storm...

A number of metalsmiths have shown an interest in including text as an integral part of their work. Many of...

Since 1965, the Silver Triennial, initiated by the Society for Goldsmith Art and the German Goldsmith House, has succeeded in...

...it’s daybreak in Honolulu. Wolf-Peter Schwarz known to most jewelry-cognoscenti as the inventor of Charlotte variable jewelry, has come up...

From autodidact to prize-winning designer: 30 years ago, the Brazilian national Antonio Bernardo founded his jewelry production firm in Rio...

Although Thomas Gentille has the distinction of having a black ceramic glaze named for him, it is his little-known recovery...

The artistic treatment of jeweler in South Africa has long been a subject of neglect. Now, this nation with its...

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...

It is a year now since Peter Schmid took over the reins from the world-renowned goldsmith and designer Michael Zobel....

This article talks about creating the next generation engagement and wedding rings that has swept the jewelry industry today. When...

Whether in ancient Greece or in China, in Peru or India, gold has not only been appreciated due to its...

Watches are normally round or angular, usually with an analogue and sometimes an additional digital display. In the past decades,...

His cosmopolitan origins are reflected in the choice of artists that he represents. Together with his wife, Laura Lapachin, Stefan...

There has always been jewelry from artists, be they painters or sculptors. Some of them have been genuine independent works...

Platinum wire filigree can be easily added to an article of jewelry providing a unique design element. The filigree can...

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the 2003 Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Pamela Argentieri, Michal...

Robert Lee Morris is a one-man revolution in the contemporary jewelry industry. What first comes to mind when you hear...

Over the last several years, a growing number of North Americans have been obtaining nontraditional pierces. Pierced penises, nipples, navels,...

Hali Baykov offers here some diagrams and notes, with the basic steps in making specialized findings, including double pins and...

The Kremlin Armory houses unique collections of precious items that mirror the artistic wealth of the country and the relations...

While Lisa Norton’s works give evidence to her interest in the concepts of value, utility, function, form and the cultural...

The English enameller, Alan Mudd, born in Lancashire, began his studies in the fine arts, and served an indentured apprenticeship...

Isabella Corwin resides in Maine, only 65 feet from the ocean. Her setting influences her with it's flotsam and jetsam....

Rebekah Laskin is an enamelist with a new subtlety and depth of purpose unique to the metalsmithing community. She has...

The trend toward white metals in luxury design is enjoying worldwide success. Post-industrial, postmodern, and post-informal: one of the principal...

At the age of three, Ruth Penington created an apron for her doll, undaunted by the complexities of a pocket,...

Carrie Adell is perhaps best known for her jewelry which transforms common, familiar, organic and geometric objects and forms into...

This article is a review on the Jewelry & Small Objects Exhibition by James Evans held at the Prime Canadian...

After many years of success, Bernd Munsteiner, one of the most renowned, creative, and innovative gemstone cutters from the village...

Missiles chase one another around Mark Rooker's Circular Reasoning. Beneath the smoke plumes, lustrous silver water ripples on the bracelet's...

The inspiring environment where the students of the Royal College of Art are trained is not only limited to the...

This story details manufacturing and assembly steps for a cultured baroque pearl necklace with yellow gold design elements. pearl necklace....

The art of gemstone carving had its absolute heyday during the 19th century in Paris. The main center of the...

Design is a perennial issue for all who produce objects meant for a specific use, utilitarian, in contrast to objects...

In the middle of March, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, the Dalai Lama, described the Chinese response to the...

While living in Little Neck, NY, during the mid-sixties, I took an enameling class at the local YWHA. It took...

For eight months from the fall of 1991 to the summer of 1992, I took a journey with my husband,...

Accessories are the mark of style! In this statement, the fashion designer Christian Lacroix reminds us that lifestyle is the...

Images of women adorned with jewelry can be found in paintings throughout the centuries. An analysis of paintings between 1660...

The modern designer-jeweler must contend with a great range of alternative ornaments: with antique pieces and diamond studded ornaments, with...

“Just what did I find in Santa Clara? Why did I feel this mountain village surrounded by pine forests was...

Antonia Schwed, who died peacefully in September 2006, was one of the great enamelists of our time, and a pioneer...

When Gary Griffith wrote this poetic meditation (see below) on the status of his work for an exhibition at the...

This is the third in a series of articles from Metalsmith about production jewelers. This installment concentrates on marketing production...

Linda MacNeil “How do I get inspired? That’s one of the hardest questions”, muses Linda MacNeil. “I look through art...

A year before the first appearance of the Memphis collection at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1981, Leslie Leupp was...

It seems as though the Tahitians were granted their wish: Tahitian pearl supply is down, and prices are up. Strict...

Couleurs de Crateres is an enameled lava workshop, established by Mrs. Nathalie Fourniat in 2001 in the Auvergne region of...

Before moving his studio operation to a ground-floor space in Soho, just last year, Ted Muehling lived and worked in...

The most copied and still a hit: the pearl necklace “Galaxie” by pars pro toto puts its tenth birthday behind...

The development of Czech jewelry design is contectualised within a wide spectrum of artworks, objects, sculptures and jewelry in its...

Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley. The names are always said together, blended as if they were one person. Yet this visionary...

Several Italian locations are bound to the typical manufacturing that has made them famous: Murano has its glass, Torre del...

The goldsmithery and jewelry factory of Dr. Sabine Brandenburg-Frank and Egon Frank is located in an imaginatively-remodeled country house in...

Far from the attention-grabbing feather jewelry collections and surprising and unique jewelry items, the motto of the new Werner Häring...

In this article, renowned enamelist Leila Tai discusses her many motivations and inspirations as well as her creative process in...

"Form Beyond Function" was organized by Kington and David Prince of the Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, in conjunction with...

The contents of some projects are not restricted solely to creating a presitigious symbolic value, but which instead provide an...

There are a lot of goldsmiths and jewelry designers out there who would state unequivocally that the Faculty of Jewelry...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1990 Summer issue of the...

Pearl jewelry has come a long way from the days of grandmother’s proverbial strand of round pearls. In today’s retail...

The thousands of year old skill of filigree production has enjoyed an exciting development in contemporary jewelry art. It has...

The jewelry of Lilly Fitzgerald is washed in serenity. There is a soothing balance, peacefulness, and grace to her timeless...

Art and commerce, uniqueness and run of the mill, fascination and irritation – tense controversy documents its young history. In...

The Korean Enamelling Artist Association celebrates its 22nd year in 2004. The group is host to the Contemporary Enamel Arts...

Megan Thorne, owner of Megan Thorne Fine Jewels in Fort Worth, Texas, loves antique jewelry. In fact, she shares that...

In the Fall of 1983, the Max Protetch Gallery in New York City presented a collection of tea and coffee...

This appreciation by Robert McDonald, former chief curator of the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California, was written...

Frederic Braham selects the technique and material for a piece of work depending on what the idea demands. He is...

Hosting over 130 exhibitors and welcoming roughly 3,000 show guests from all over the world, the Intergem is the leading...

Inhorgenta europe (2005) - 20 young designers and newcomers to the trade fair have the opportunity to present their work...

This year’s fall and winter fashions are decidely subdued. The necklaces worn at Anna Sui’s Fall 2006 show reflect the...

Pawel Kaczynski has been creating jewelry with an iconic characteristic style for almost 15 years. But, it has only been...

Innovative watch design can be more than simply defining what a chronograph should look like. Or is this not true?...

For Alex and Ani, booming success points back to manufacturing locally, with love Pharmaceutical salesperson Kelly Oliver logs thousands of...

Complex simplicity jewelry for Hermann Jünger has always been an art of certain scale. The term miniature, I believe, is...

The art of Ramona Solberg (b. 1921) – artist, teacher, author, curator, traveler–not only changed Pacific Northwest metals, it changed...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Spring issue of the...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1987 Summer issue of the...

On British Jewellery and German Jewellery, contrary to what one might infer about this exhibition, mounted at the Crafts Council...

I have always thought that if no other lesson had begun to seep through peoples' inertia and greed, that at...

In 1995, I embarked on a journey of personal discovery and some would say, simply, ego trip, by depicting myself...

It was forever ago, as they like to say, when they first met. It was the Depression and they "married...

Sculptor, jeweler, teacher, pioneer in large-scale studio metal casting, Byron Wilson has just turned 73 years-of-age. He is a fascinating...

My study of metalwork in Japan began with the words, "First you will make a ring." The teacher ceremoniously handed...

After the moody, broody looks for fall, American fashion designers cleared the air for spring with easy, breezy, feminine clothes,...

What plan of action should jewelry designers follow if they wish to successfully promote their jewelry in galleries? Wait bashfully...

Fascinated by the way things work, Connie Verrusio creates radical new jewelry forms from leftover functions. Connie Verrusio has double...

The gemstone dealers in Ban Lung, the dusty capital of Ratanakiri province, Cambodia, work in a ramshackle group of storefronts...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1983 Fall issue of the...

This three stone ring designed by Barney Jette has two flush set trillion sapphire side stones with a total weight...

Welcome to the Mystery Box Challenge! You are among the select designers who have received this box of materials, Your...

For 25 years now, the married couple and British goldsmiths Gill and Alan Saunders have run their own studio under...

om Dailing works in metal and Richard Homer in stone, but otherwise they are very much in sync. Dailings jewelry...

Laser welders, it seems, have as many applications as there are imaginations and types of jewelry. This laser welding project...

Eighteen months ago, New York City-based designer Lisa Jenks began a partnership with Origins, the well-known skin care products store....

Six years ago, the Internet was still in its first flowering, populated largely by academics, students, and computer nerds. Although...

John Marshalls position in American art is an awkward one. His sculptures of fine silver with acrylic, Corian, wood, and...

The history we are looking at here plays itself out at the foot of Kilimanjaro in East Africa. It unites...

The New York-based designer Chhaya Kapadia has now produced a new line featuring motifs taken from the exotic flora and...

This exhibit, which originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1982, will be traveling for two years...

Like many jewelers, Jacob Albee of Jacob Albee Goldsmith in Burlington, Vermont, buys stones without always knowing what he’s going...

Serik became acquainted with enamel while studying at college. He graduated in 1988 with the specialty of "Art Processing of...

Organized by the Museum voor Vlakglas-en Emaillekunst, Ravenstein, Holland Florale by Ralph Bakker. 2005. Enamel on silver, gold. Colour is...

Since the inception of The Enamelist Society of India, in December 1999, we have been working towards the resurgence of...

The fields of art, craft and design are becoming increasingly intertwined and the boundaries between them ever more fluid. The...

When a customer brings you a 4.27 carat, E color, VS1 clarity, Asscher cut diamond, it's tough not to be...

Contemporary American Studies scholar Ken Ames has stated that the time has long passed when one can celebrate the objects...

In April of 1983, a simple and relatively unpretentious store joined the ranks of the illustrious "boutiques" and other high-priced...

Fred Fenster is a compact man whose quiet friendliness and diffidence belies the intensity that lies just beneath the surface...

Owing to 201 entried works from 20 countries over the world, The 20th international Cloisonné Jewelry Context has closed successfully...

Cu3, as a national metal competition, was a sequel – albeit more than ten years later – to Copper 2...

Always preferring a combination of metals in her jewelry, Sydney Lynch of Sydney Lynch Jewelry Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska, discovered...

This Professional Bench Jewelers Guide to Setting Gemstones cannot anticipate every potential situation you may encounter. Always use extreme caution...

A few years ago, Randy Polk of Randy Polk Designs in Fountain Hills, Arizona, knew he needed to make some...

When one looks at a world map to find New Zealand, it's easily overlooked due to its location and size....

Agate cameos are made from dyed multiple layered agates, which are a regional specialty of the cutters around Idar-Oberstein in...

The assembly of this three stone pendant pendant appears simple but when using traditional methods to position and join the...

I have worked in cloisonné on large-scale wall hangings and site-specific installations for public spaces. My work ranges from 8"...

This article is a step by step procedure in Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring. The customer wanted a...

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1986 Winter issue of...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1987 Spring issue of the...

Signals: Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry opened at Cranbrook Art Museum in November 1996 – a contemporary counterpart to Messengers in...

For Felix Lindner, a goldsmith who was born in Erfurt in 1973 and has lived there for some time now,...

This is the third of a series on galleries that specialize in jewelry and metalwork. The Quadrum Gallery is owned...

Zoe Zong ZoeZong LLC McKinley, Texas First Place, Professional Design Excellence (1-3 Years in Business) "We're born, but we make...

Metalsmith recently received a letter from Heikki Seppä, offering some of his observations regarding education in metals in the US...

While at the Atlanta Bench Jewelers Conference, my friend Elesa Dillon (the national sales manager for Southern Jewelry News and...

An experienced bench jeweler will often be able to create almost any design that doesn't actually violate the laws of...

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Fall issue of the...

The metal titanium, named after the oldest deity of Greek history, was not discovered until relatively recently. Perhaps the gods...

A bright light shone over the world of South African design for the seventh time when the DTC Shining Light...

"How to Wrap Five Eggs" was a dilemma posed by a cult book of Japanese packaging design in the mid-1960s....

Jennifer Trask sometimes seems to approach jewelry like a natural historian, filling locket-sized, glass topped silver and gold cases with...