— By Tamara Honaman
Learn jewelry-making projects and techniques that allow you to get the look of silver without the intimidation of metalsmithing! Jewelry-making enthusiasts who love the look of silver jewelry but are intimidated by the skill and investment required to get into traditional metalsmithing will find this book an ideal solution. Renowned...
— 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 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 Loretta Lam
An accessible and easy-to-use guide to the principles and elements of jewelry design, this resource helps jewelry makers of all skill levels take their designs from good to great. Instructor and expert Loretta Lam offers guidance on working with a wide array of materials, along with exercises to help you explore...
— 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 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 Maurice P. Galli
The combined talents of three top jewelry designers, including a professor who teaches the skill to jewelry students, have created this practical step-by-step book. Starting with a fully illustrated discussion of design principles and metal and stone rendering techniques, this volume then presents progressive detailed sketches and finished drawings of...
— 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 Maureen DeLorme
A thorough study of art and jewelry created to memorialize and honor those who have passed. Decorative art created to memorialize and commemorate death has been a part of Western culture for centuries. Extraordinarily beautiful examples of mourning art and memorial jewelry for members of royalty and the aristocracy date...
— By Mark Fenn and Foreword by Jack Cunningham
A showcase of the best of narrative jewelry from makers around the world. Foreword by jewelry professor and expert Jack Cunningham, PhD. Do you have a piece of jewelry that offers a story? What story does the jewelry we own or desire tell? Why are you attracted to some pieces,...