— By Maurice P. Galli
The process of designing jewelry is carefully explained. This second book follows the tremendous success of the author's book The Art of Jewelry Design: Principles of Design, Rings & Earrings. It has taken the combined talents of three top jewelry designers, including a professor who teaches their skill to jewelry...
— By Deborah Crosby
Outstanding photos of over 1,000 pieces of fine and costume jewelry over a one hundred year period from 1860 to 1960. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, only the affluent could afford many pieces of jewelry. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, industrialization led jewelry to become more affordable and the rising...
— By Ani Afshar
Take a jewelry-making workshop with designer Ani Afshar, who will teach you step-by-step to make an elegant flower brooch, a flower lariat necklace, and flower dangle earrings with colored beads and fishing wire. Then introduce your own variations as you build skills with Ani’s guidance and over 100 color photographs...
— By Jeffrey B. Snyder
Enjoy this overview of the wearable artwork created by more than one hundred of today’s top art jewelers. The artists provide discussions of their work along with examples of their creativity. Hundreds of vibrant color photographs display one-of-a-kind works of art, including necklaces, brooches, bracelets, rings, and earrings in gold,...
— By Lyngerda Kelly
More than 1,000 exciting pieces accompany the story of plastic jewelry from the 1920s to the present in this revised and expanded 5th edition. Colorful and lightweight, examples include natural tortoiseshell and horn, synthetic celluloid, Bakelite, and Lucite – all in a variety of forms. Jewelry has been made from...
— By Roseann Ettinger
The lively and innovative jewelry of this era is presented in thousands of examples, including costume and semi-precious pieces with identifying text. This second edition includes many new pieces along with current market values. Organized by styles and materials, the book presents rhinestones to pearls, plastics, and various metals to...
— By Barbara Baumann and Flurina Hodel
An illustrated guide with instructions for 55 paper jewelry projects, including bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and hair accessories. With detailed instructions, templates, and colorful photography, Paper Jewelry shows how to craft fifty-five paper jewelry projects, finding inspiration in a wide variety of recycled papers. Colorful and graphic designs range from necklaces,...
— By Roberto & Carla Ginelli Brunialti
This encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American costume jewelry from 1930-1950. It offers readers a meticulous, reliable instrument to knowing these gems, which are often true and proper little works of art. In the two volumes, over 966...
— By Jeffrey B. Snyder
Hundreds of stunning color photos display the wearable artwork produced by today's top art jewelers, including one-of-a-kind necklaces, brooches, bracelets, rings, and earrings in gold, silver, mixed metals, glass, enamel work, found objects, and more. Here is sculpture made small and designed to adorn the body and draw the eye,...
— By Ani Afshar
Join designer Ani Afshar for a jewelry-making workshop to create a bead necklace with long ribbon streamers, another bead necklace with cropped ribbons, and a pair of beaded drop earrings. Then introduce your own variations as you build skills with Ani’s guidance and over 100 color photographs that detail each...