Offering a comprehensive exploration of stone-setting techniques, this guide serves as an essential resource for jewelry makers. It covers a wide range of methods, from basic bezels and prongs to advanced techniques like pave, carre, and cluster settings. Additionally, it addresses unique settings for fragile stones and options that allow for stone movement, making it a valuable tool for both novice and experienced jewelers looking to enhance their skills in creating stunning gemstone jewelry.
A complete and practical guide to using precious and semi-precious stones in any metal, from traditional settings to contemporary looks.
This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference for jewelers brings together a vast range of skills, techniques, and technical data into one volume. Offering detailed explanations and step-by-step photography to demonstrate procedures, this handbook includes a complete reference section featuring tool shapes, an index of gems, a glossary, standard sizes and measurements, conversion tables, and an extensive list of resources. Additionally, the manual offers a directory of tools and materials--including a key to identifying tools for a "beginner's kit"--a historical introduction to jewelry, and suggestions for photographing and promoting completed pieces. Remarkable cutting-edge pieces by jewelry makers and designers from around the world are used to illustrate the various processes involved in creating exceptional jewelry. Covering everything from traditional metalsmithing skills and using alternative materials, such as plastics and resin, to discussing issues involved with outsourcing work to specialist external suppliers, this is an indispensable and essential resource for both students and professionals.
New Jewellery Techniques is a detailed and abundantly-illustrated reference book that focuses on the innovative curved score folding for sheet metal techniques to create beautiful, dynamic three-dimensional forms, much like metal origami, in jewelry and metalsmithing. Anastasia Young and Paul Wells, both renowned UK-based jewelers, authors and lecturers, have created a practical visual handbook on curved scoring and folding techniques applied to jewelry and metalsmithing for small objects. The book's clear, hands-on approach, with explanatory photographs for each step, makes it an invaluable resource for established jewelers wishing to learn more about new techniques, jewelry students, home crafters and advanced amateurs. Readers will discover a wealth of information about a variety of ways to score and fold metal and give it different finishes, shaping flat sheets into to visually stunningly organic forms, including guides on the tools needed for each method. A final section contains useful resources, from a detailed analysis of score depth based on the gauge of the wire used (through diagrams to aid design and planning) to information about where to source materials and facts about metalworking and jewelry in general.
Dieses umfassende Werkstattbuch vereint in einem Band alles, was man zum Thema Schmuckherstellung wissen muss: eine Fülle von Informationen zu Werkstatt und Rohstoffen, Techniken, Gestaltung und Spezialwissen. Anastasia Young erläutert neben dem handwerklichen Können auch die praktischen Aspekte einer eigenen Schmuckwerkstatt und die kreativen Gestaltungsprozesse von der ersten Skizze bis zum Prototyp, die geltenden Arbeitsschutzvorschriften und die Beauftragung externer Spezialisten und Zulieferer. Das wesentliche Element dieses Werkes sind die ausführlichen Erläuterungen der Techniken, die von vielen Fotos zu jedem Arbeitsschritt begleitet werden. Dank klarer Anleitungen bildet das Buch nicht nur für professionelle Goldschmiede/innen sondern auch für Studierende und Auszubildende aller Ebenen eine verbindliche, umfassende 'Bibel' ihrer Zunft.
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