[Jewelry making - Article 00077] - Re: [Orchid] Silver granulation

[Fredricka Kulicke]

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    Hi David, Although John Paul Miller did indeed do granulation before
    Jean Stark, as far as I understand he did not teach it to many
    people. 

    My father, Robert Kulicke experimented with and worked out a
    teachable technique for doing granulation during the 1960's. He then
    taught it to students at his school, originally called the Kulicke
    Cloisonne Workshop. Bob is very enthusiastic and taught granulation
    to anyone who would listen. His policy was to hold nothing back,
    teach all you know. 

    After getting together with Jean Stark they became more involved
    with jewelry making and teaching granulation.  My (then) husband
    Joseph English and I became their apprentices. Bob and Jean opened the
    Kulicke-Stark Academy of Jewelry Art(1972), with 6 of us teaching
    granulation. 

    Bob Kulicke had a vision to introduce modern jewelers to the ancient
    jewelry arts that were largely being ignored at the time. 

    He had a plan to change the modern jewelry industry, to upgrade the
    jewelry being produced, by giving jewelers a sense of history 

    I believe it is correct that most people doing granulation today
    were taught at, or by someone who went to the Kulicke-Stark Academy. 

    When I look in jewelry galleries and magazines, at web sites, I see
    that Bob's plan has worked wonderfully. I love to see all the
    imaginative ways jewelers are using granulation today. 

    Bob Kulicke has always been a painter primarily and his paintings
    are better than ever. He is now 76, living in NYC. 

    He always says that his jewelry students have way surpassed him with
    their granulation skills, which was exactly his plan. 

Regards,
Fredricka Kulicke

http://kulickejewelryschool.com/
http://www.fredrickakulicke.com/ 

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