The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide

The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide
Author: Helen Driggs
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620334836

Discover a thorough reference guide to metalworking tools and techniques with multiple demos, tutorials, cross-references, and supportive skill-building exercises and projects. Helen I. Driggs, senior editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist , brings her down-to-earth approach and strong metalworking knowledge base to this overview of basic and not-so-basic metalworking techniques. The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide walks you through the variety of metalworking tools available and offers guidance on setting up a studio, buying and organizing supplies, and determining what tools to buy and when. Organizing tools by basic functions, Helen offers a solid and logical overview of metalworking techniques and teaches sets of related skills, showing how different tools can sometimes achieve the same end. Each chapter includes stepped demos and applied techniques for using particular tools. The book culminates in projects that combine a variety of techniques and allow the reader to further apply and practice their metalworking skills. Get a solid foundation for understanding the basic (and not so basic) processes of metalwork!

The Complete Photo Guide to Making Metal Jewelry

The Complete Photo Guide to Making Metal Jewelry
Author: John Sartin
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1589237366

"Comprehensive reference for all techniques used for making gold, silver, bronze, and copper jewelry"-- Provided by publisher.

Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers

Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers
Author: Elizabeth Bone
Publisher: Interweave
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781596684997

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.

Metalsmithing for Jewelry Makers

Metalsmithing for Jewelry Makers
Author: Jinks McGrath
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764165849

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.

Circle of the 9 Muses

Circle of the 9 Muses
Author: David Hutchens
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118973968

The action-based guide to powerful, influential organizational storytelling Circle of the 9 Muses captures the best practices of the world's most influential story consultants and knowledge workers to help you find, tell, and draw value from your organizational stories as impetus for action. This rich toolbox is loaded with fun, graphical instructions and dozens of unique, replicable, and facilitated processes that require no special training or expertise. You'll discover your organization's hidden narrative assets, use different templates and frameworks to tell the stories of your past, present, and future and then draw team members into rich meaning-making dialogue that translates into action. These activities can be exercised in endless permutations, and expert advice steers you toward the right activity for a specific purpose, including managing change, setting strategy, onboarding, defining the brand, engaging supporters or customers, merging cultures, building trust, and much more. Organizational storytelling is a powerful managerial tool and an essential change management technique. This is about your influence as a leader. Knowing the right story to tell and how to deliver it effectively gives you and your organization enormous influence, and helps connect employees to strategy by providing understanding, belief, and motivation in their personal contribution. This book is the ultimate field guide to becoming an influential storyteller, with concrete, actionable guidance toward all the storytelling fundamentals. Identify your organization's "narrative assets" Craft an elegant, well-constructed organizational story Capture, bank, and share stories with extraordinary engagement Facilitate a dialogue to draw out meaning and induce change The growing interest surrounding organizational storytelling has many change agents focused on "trying to tell better stories," but goals are useless without a plan of action. Circle of the 9 Muses helps you weave narrative wisdom into organizational development activities, engaging employees and driving change.

Metal Jewelry Workshop

Metal Jewelry Workshop
Author: Helen I. Driggs
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607655497

• This book shows how to create exciting metal jewelry using just 12 simple, inexpensive hand tools. • No jewelry torch required. • 8 exercises and 12 projects feature step-by-step photos that show exactly what to do and how the result should look. • Readers can master the use of jeweler’s tools and create beautiful pieces of jewelry along the way. • Required materials are readily available at craft stores, hardware stores, and/or around the house. • The author has extensive experience teaching jewelry making to beginners—she knows how to explain the tools and techniques in an easy-to-understand, reader-focused style.

Looking at Jewelry

Looking at Jewelry
Author: Susanne Gänsicke
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1606065998

What is a cabochon? What are the various types of gilding? What is vermeil? This accessible book—the first of its kind—offers concise explanations of key jewelry terms. The fascination with personal adornment is universal. It is a preoccupation that is primal, instinctive, and uniquely human. Jewelry encompasses a seemingly endless number of ornaments produced across time and in all cultures. The range of materials and techniques used in its construction is extraordinary, even revolutionary, with new substances and methods of fabrication added with every generation. In any given society, master artisans have devoted their time, energy, and talent to the fine art of jewelry making, creating some of the most spectacular objects known to humankind. This volume, geared toward jewelry makers, scholars, scientists, students, and fashionistas alike, begins with a lively introduction that offers a cultural history of jewelry and its production. The main text provides information on the most common, iconic, and culturally significant forms of jewelry and also covers materials, techniques, and manufacturing processes. Containing more than eighty color illustrations, this guide will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the art of jewelry.

Warman's Jewelry Field Guide

Warman's Jewelry Field Guide
Author: Kathy Flood
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 144021882X

The take-it-with-you collecting resource... Warman's Jewelry Field Guide 2nd Edition features more than 400 detailed color images and current values for some of the world's most stunning fine and costume jewelry. You'll also find: Key categories covering everything from funky fads to diamonds and pearls. A wide-ranging list of shopping resources. Essential factors to consider when determining values.

Working with Precious Metal Clay

Working with Precious Metal Clay
Author: Tim McCreight
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2000
Genre: Jewelry making
ISBN: 9780713658286

Decribes a technique for creating jewelry and objects using precious metal clay, a compound composed of platinum, gold or silver, water, and an organic binder. The water and binder burn away during firing, leaving pure metal behind.