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Jewelry Making and Design: An Illustrated Textbook for Teachers, Students of Design and Craft Workers

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The ancient, highly skilled craft of manipulating gold, silver, precious, and semi-precious stones into jewelry is here set forth in a practical text. The authors take you through a graded series of problems, progressing from simple to complex pieces, teaching you all you need to know along the way. Making a pierced brooch is the first problem. You learn to affix a tracing of the design to the metal, and to handle a center punch, saw frame and saw, needle file and flat-round file, and emery cloth. This first problem is fully illustrated, as are all the problems, with 53 different design ideas, as well as photographs of the tools and processes involved. Subsequent problems teach you to make brooches set with stones, chased and repoussé brooches, wire pendants, rings with four different types of settings, chains, and cuff links. Executing these pieces teaches you the processes of soldering, pickling, using a gas jet and blow pipe, making a plain and shouldered bezel, annealing, enameling, making a mold for casting, and much more. Following the section on the making of jewelry, the authors turn to a discussion of the aesthetics of jewelry design. They suggest sources in nature and in art for creative ideas and motifs, and give helpful methods for developing these into designs suitable for various types of jewelry pieces. The authors, both formerly of the Rhode Island School of Design, animate every line of the text with the knowledge that only long experience in the craft and in teaching the craft can give. For many years, beginning and experienced crafters have kept this authoritative text beside them, using it to avoid costly mistakes and to save many hours of trial-and-error experimentation. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; 4th Revised edition (June 1, 1967)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486217507


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 05


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 1 x 5 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #787,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #586 in Jewelry Craft (Books) #820 in Decorative Arts


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  • Great resource for Art Deco design
This is an older book that is reprinted, and yeah for that. Nice to see we are using many of the same tools today. It has a lot of descriptions and pictures. It is not for beginners. You have to know how to solder and have a fully stocked bench. The pictures can be used for inspiration for your own designs if you like this style. It is interesting to see how they use wire, piercing, gravers, enamels and more to create lovely pieces. It is black and white so you have to imagine, but that is easy to do. The back section where they take flowers and insects and showing how they use them to inspire a line of jewelry. Cons are the black and white, if that is not your cup of tea and not everything will translate to how we do it today. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2020 by J. Schutte

  • Buy This Book. Sincerely, a Crusty Old Jeweler
I'm a crusty old jeweler who thinks they know everything and nobody is going to teach me anything. I have invented many revolutionary techniques that everyone has invented before me. This book though has some stunning examples of pendants, rings and necklaces which are paradoxically called problems. They are old school fancy and I am inspired like I haven't been in years. I hope you like piercing because most of the samples are intricate sawing patterns that you will swear at and will cause you to throw your jewelers saw across the room but they are actually worth the time and skill to learn how to make properly. Highly recommend. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2020 by Trinkie Sugarbear

  • Disappointed.
It really didn't tell me what I wanted to know, also the drawing wee hard to see. I understand it was a old book but I thought I would have been able to see the drawings.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014 by Debra

  • Another metal-cratf book that has stood the test of time.
I gave this to my daughter, a jewelry designer & craftswoman, and she loves it. (5 more words required, another word)
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2013 by J. Brown

  • Good informative book
I like this book. A lot of solid information!
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2019 by Randall W. Fullmer

  • a different view
excellent basics of design, apparently now being copied by other writers A quite different view of design, older books can be very enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2015 by JL designs

  • Five Stars
A great book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018 by Billy

  • Eye opening for design.
This book will open your eyes to different ways to design jewelry. It's inspirational and practical.
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014 by Karene Smith

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