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How to Make Your Own Locket

How to Make Your Own Locket

Before photography, lockets were decorated with miniature, handpainted portraits -- a luxury few could afford. The advent of affordable photographic...
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Carat Gold Solders for Jewellery Making

Carat Gold Solders for Jewellery Making

In many countries, regulations govern the caratage of gold solders used to make jewellery and, with few exceptions, gold solder...
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950 Palladium: Custom Made Components

950 Palladium: Custom Made Components

When making custom jewelry with any alloy, certain components within the piece are often hand made to enhance the final...
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The Invisible Setting Process

The Invisible Setting Process

This column is from the At the Bench column that appears every month in AJM. For this project, it is...
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Basic Gypsy or Flush Mount Setting

Basic Gypsy or Flush Mount Setting

First the stone's diameter is measured at the pavillion and a dent is made in metal for the pilot drill...
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A Replica of the Sutton Hoo Sword

A Replica of the Sutton Hoo Sword

Considered to be one of the richest and most important archaeological finds in Great Britain, the Ship Burial known as...
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How to Make a Three-Part Silver Ring

How to Make a Three-Part Silver Ring

Using a relatively inexpensive metal and casting it in an ingot mold, you can create a sophisticated design at the...
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The Art of the Celtic Metalsmith

The Art of the Celtic Metalsmith

This research paper was presented at the Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference at Cranbrook Academy of Art in June,...
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Introduction to Basic Concrete Jewelry

Introduction to Basic Concrete Jewelry

Concrete is a wonderful, hard, neutral, unprecious material with a real presence. And it can be successfully adapted to jewellery....
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Coloring Techniques for Metalsmiths

Coloring Techniques for Metalsmiths

Jewelers are a restless and inquisitive group. Not content with producing sumptuous jewelry, they spray it with chemicals, dip it...
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3 Ways to Use 2-Part Epoxy Resins

3 Ways to Use 2-Part Epoxy Resins

Available in a wide variety of formulas, epoxy resins are used in jewelry making as adhesives, as coatings, and for...
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Chain and Bracelet Catches 2

Chain and Bracelet Catches 2

Box catches lend themselves to a wide range of shapes and are frequently used on chains, bracelets and cuff bracelets....
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Generation Z: Future Jewelry Consumers

Generation Z: Future Jewelry Consumers

Generation Z is tech savvy, frugal, philanthropic, and globally aware, and soon its members will be shopping at a jewelry...
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Galalith – Jewelry Milk Stone

Galalith – Jewelry Milk Stone

In 1898, Wilhelm Krische, owner of a factory that made history books and a stone printing shop, patented one of...
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Platinum Alloy Applications for Jewelry

Platinum Alloy Applications for Jewelry

Today, platinum is enjoying its renaissance. In the U.S., platinum consumption has risen by more than 700% since 1990. More...
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Folklore, Power, and Magic of Gemstones

Folklore, Power, and Magic of Gemstones

When the Babylonians observed the passage of the heavenly bodies across the firmament many thousands of years ago and believed...
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Hollow Carat Gold Jewelry

Hollow Carat Gold Jewelry

There is always pressure to reduce the cost of manufactured items and carat gold jewellery is no exception to this...
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Channel Setting Round Diamonds

Channel Setting Round Diamonds

Recently a woman brought an old family diamond into our store and asked to have a custom mounting made for...
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Ceramic Jewelry: Artworks made of Fire and Earth

Ceramic Jewelry: Artworks made of Fire and Earth

People have always been fascinated with the material clay. Our forefathers believed the intelligent design of clay in some way...
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The Jewelry of Hermann Junger

The Jewelry of Hermann Junger

Over the past forty years, jewelry making has become increasingly rich and diversified as the time-honored reliance on precious metals...
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Jewellery Career Options

One of the most interesting things about the jewellery/metals field is that there are so many career options, so many...
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Erotic Watches: Indiscreet Treasures

Erotic Watches: Indiscreet Treasures

The interplay between the erotic and art has featured in all periods of history, on occasion crossing the line into...
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The Art of Anticlastic Raising

The Art of Anticlastic Raising

Transforming a single sheet of metal into an undulating organic form using only a hammer and stake is the art...
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Kliar Vibrant Colors for Metal Jewelry

Kliar Vibrant Colors for Metal Jewelry

Adding vibrant colors to jewelry can involve any number of methods -- from careful enameling by hand to the high-tech...
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Cracks in Jewelry Manufacturing

Cracks in Jewelry Manufacturing

As many jewelry manufacturers and goldsmiths know from hard experience, cracking in jewelry can occur at any time during its...
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German Jewelry Quality and Creativity

German Jewelry Quality and Creativity

Many German jewelry producers have stunning ideas for design combined with a level of quality that satisfies even the most...
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Ways to Choose a Birthstone

"My birthstone is emerald," a potential customer recently told me. "But I don't like green," she continued, "so I never...
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Charles Loloma – Hopi Modernist

Charles Loloma – Hopi Modernist

Master jeweler Charles Loloma was a Hopi spiritual leader -- a member of the Badger Clan and a Hopi snake...
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Basic Bead Setting Techniques

Basic Bead Setting Techniques

First the stone's diameter is measured at the pavillion and a dent is made in the metal for the pilot...
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Additive Manufacturing in the Jewelry Scene

Additive Manufacturing in the Jewelry Scene

Did you ever imagine you'd see the day when a finely woven mesh bracelet with thousands of tiny links could...
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The Best Jewelry Books: A Comprehensive Reading List For Craftspeople

A selected bibliography list for the jeweler - Metal working, Casting, Plating, Enamelling ,Gem Cutting, Setting, Engraving and Etching, Other...
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Damascus and Pattern Welding

Damascus and Pattern Welding

True damascus steel is made by a casting process utilizing very high carbon steel. The material is held at or...
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Simple Method of Forming Jump Rings

Simple Method of Forming Jump Rings

This paper describes a simple process of forming jump rings. These jump rings were formed from 16 guage sterling silver...
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Manufacturing Mokume Gane Jewelry

Manufacturing Mokume Gane Jewelry

Mokume gane translated from Japanese means "wood eye metal". This rare metal lamination process was developed and used by Japanese...
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How the Bracelet Got its Name

Do you know why that piece of jewelry that goes around your arm is called a bracelet? Or why a...
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Pitch Bowls and Alternatives for Jewelers

Pitch Bowls and Alternatives for Jewelers

Chasing and repousse is carried out on various surfaces using steel punches to strike and manipulate sheet metal or cast...
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Knowing the Difference Between Carat and Karat

Carat, karat, caret, and carrot are all pronounced the same, but each has a different meaning. Carat and karat, of...
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Chain and Bracelet Catches 1

Chain and Bracelet Catches 1

The first requirement of all catches is that they secure neckpieces and bracelets in such a way that they will...
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The Life and Art of Sascha Brastoff

The Life and Art of Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff was known for his talent and ability in many fields of art, both performing and visual, both fine...
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Gold Jewellery Tarnishing

Tarnishing is superficial corrosion of the carat gold surface and is evident by a usually dark discolouration - the tarnish...
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Refining Gold Jewelry Scraps

Refining Gold Jewelry Scraps

When questions arise about manufacturing quality gold jewelry, manufacturers are eager to talk shop with their peers and industry experts....
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The Jewelry of Gijs Bakker

The Jewelry of Gijs Bakker

Since the late 60s, Gijs Bakker (b. 1942) has been influential to both Dutch and international jewelry design. His work,...
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The Copperwork of Santa Clara Del Cobre

The Copperwork of Santa Clara Del Cobre

Dusty cobblestone streets traversed by oxen and donkeys pulling hay carts, anvils ringing, woodsmoke, chickens pecking next to the wooden...
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Technology’s Relevance to Jewellery Design

Technology’s Relevance to Jewellery Design

Jewellery design is generally considered solely from an artistic standpoint, and the jewellery is viewed as an expression of a...
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Ed Levin: 40 Years of Craft Jewelry

Ed Levin: 40 Years of Craft Jewelry

It is only within the past two decades that craft jewelry has become big business. From a marketing viewpoint, the...
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Art Smith: Goldsmith and Silversmith

Art Smith: Goldsmith and Silversmith

In a promotional flyer from the early 1950s. Art Smith offered a "fanciful ring of space, silver and gold." The...
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The Bauhaus Metal Workshop, 1919-1927

The Bauhaus Metal Workshop, 1919-1927

In this article Deborah Norton traces the rise and fall of this seminal 20th-century school. Although Bauhaus policy revolved around...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Los Angeles

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Los Angeles

This Metalsmith's Guide to Los Angeles can be useful to metalsmiths who are new to the Los Angeles area or...
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Jewelers’ Gripping Tools

Jewelers’ Gripping Tools

Euro Tool, Inc. offers a wide variety of innovative and standard holding device's to make working at the bench easier,...
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CNC Milling vs. 3D Printing

For someone new to the jewelry industry, the sheer assortment of tools and equipment in the typical workshop can be...
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Turkish Jewelry Industry

Turkish Jewelry Industry

The Turkish jewelry industry is booming. Last year, exports reached a record high of 1,172 billion US-$. Over the last...
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Henry Steig

Henry Steig

Everyone knows the famous picture from the film The Seven Year Itch, of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York...
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Jewelry Rendering Tools and Projects

These pages contain a list of recommended tools to jewelry rendering, as well as a series of projects that I...
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Peru: The Past is Always Present

Peru: The Past is Always Present

The South American Andes state can look back on a jewelry culture spanning over one thousand years. This has remained...
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Japan-Made Jewelry Design

Japan-Made Jewelry Design

The history of jewelry in Japan is full of upheavals: it dates back more than 9,000 years and yet is...
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Gem Cutting Machinery

Until fairly recently, gem cutting was one of the few areas of the world economy to remain uncontaminated by the...
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Pulse-Arc-Welder: Creating Jewelry

Pulse-Arc-Welder: Creating Jewelry

For this project, the No. 1 tip was used with the ABI Pulse Arc Welder. Five tips come with the...
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Working with Platinum & Platinum Designing

My skills as an artist combined with my years of experience at the bench have given me a practical approach...
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China Painting on Enamel Process

China Painting on Enamel Process

Although enameling is a new art form for me, I came to it with many years of china painting experience....
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The Jewelry of Manfred Bischoff

The Jewelry of Manfred Bischoff

Manfred Bischoff has a fascination with language. Like many Europeans of his generation, Bischoff is fluent in several languages, including...
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Creating Colorful Jewelry Designs

Creating Colorful Jewelry Designs

When most people think of colored jewelry, their minds conjure visions of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. After all, jewelry makers...
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Cluster Ring Assembly

Cluster Ring Assembly

One of the most difficult types of construction in jewelry is assembling a cluster of settings supported by a wire...
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Marjorie Schick: New Sculpture Design

Marjorie Schick: New Sculpture Design

For four decades, Marjorie Schick has been one of the pioneers of original avant-garde jewelry. Her works are based on...
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Modern Native American Jewelry

Modern Native American Jewelry

Long recognized for the ubiquitous turquoise and silver squash-blossom necklaces and concho belts, the traditional metalwork of the Southwest has...
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Ed Wiener: Arts and Ends

Ed Wiener: Arts and Ends

Ed Wiener exemplifies the studio jewelry artist of the late 1940s and 50s. The first time we met, this fascinating...
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American Modernist Jewelry 1940-1960

American Modernist Jewelry 1940-1960

Recently, collectors have discovered a body of silver jewelry, eclectic in scope—by turns serious and whimsical—creative, original and quintessentially modern....
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The Jewelry of Thomas Mann

The Jewelry of Thomas Mann

Not so many years ago Thomas Mann figured that 2002 would be his year to retire. But the projected date...
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Silversmith’s Art in Peru

Silversmith’s Art in Peru

Silversmith's Art in Peru In sixteenth-century Viceregal Peru, the area claimed by Spain that originally encompassed all of South America...
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Gerda Flöckinger: First Lady of British Jewelry

Gerda Flöckinger: First Lady of British Jewelry

Starting in the early 1950s, Gerda Flöckinger worked to change the face of British jewelry. Others joined her fledgling crusade,...
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The Work of Three Contemporary Wire Artists

The Work of Three Contemporary Wire Artists

Working on the most meticulous and precise scale, three contemporary wire artists, Barbara SilverStein, Nikki Feldbaum and Biba Schutz create...
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Bead and Bright Setting

Bead and Bright Setting

In the last issue of Bench Magazine I demonstrated how I would go about wax model carving for this unusual...
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Ancient High Cultures: Jewelry, Talisman and Status Symbol

Ancient High Cultures: Jewelry, Talisman and Status Symbol

People have gazed at adorned ears for many millennia. Discoveries in tombs and old legends tel of how ears were...
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Grisaille and Limoges Techniques

Grisaille and Limoges Techniques

My enamel jewelry includes earrings, pins, pendants, lockets and rings done in Grisaille and Limoges techniques. Within most of the...
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CAD/CAM Systems for Metals and Jewelry

If you are involved with computers you know how rapidly things are changing, prices are sinking and capabilities increasing. Computer...
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Re-tipping Platinum Prongs

Platinum is a very durable metal, so prongs will last a long time. However, it is sometimes necessary to re-tip...
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Urushi: Japanese Lacquer

Urushi: Japanese Lacquer

Urushi is the sap from a staghorn sumac tree (rhus vernicifera) which is native to East Asia. Japanese and Chinese...
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History of Contemporary Canadian Jewellery

History of Contemporary Canadian Jewellery

The history of contemporary Canadian jewellery, like that of Canada itself, has struggled with the assimilation of foreign influences, economies...
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William Spratling: Creator of Modern Taxco Silver

William Spratling: Creator of Modern Taxco Silver

For the past 60 years, tourists visiting Mexico have sought distinctive silver jewelry and holloware, crafted by native artisans. Although...
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E.U. Expands Gem Buying

E.U. Expands Gem Buying

The European Union’s gemstone imports were up a solid 7.5 percent to €412.5 million (US$544.4 million) in 2006, mostly on...
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CAD Modeling Prong Settings

CAD Modeling Prong Settings

If you're designing jewelry using CAD, understanding how the piece will be cast and then set and finished at the...
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Moche Metalwork

Moche Metalwork

All that glitters attracts both the museum visitor and the archaeologist. Whether one is looking at tastefully displayed objects in...
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Jewellers’ Objective Attitude Towards Designing

It is sometimes useful to have criticism of one's work in order to develop it. While studying as an apprentice...
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The Great Pectoral from Tolstaya Mogila

The Great Pectoral from Tolstaya Mogila

In 1971, excavations in a kurgan (grave mound) named Tolstaya Mogila – big barrow – in the city of Ordzonikidzhe...
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Colored Stone Light Source

Can the colored stone industry choose a standard light source from the multitude on the market?
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Friedrich Becker: Escape Into the Fourth Dimension

Friedrich Becker: Escape Into the Fourth Dimension

The gold and silversmith Friedrich Becker has succeeded in uniting technology and art in a fascinating manner. Through his work...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Germany

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Germany

My trips to Germany in 1980 and 1982 were the most satisfying experiences in relation to my metalwork. They were...
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Working with Jewelry Hinges Made Easy

Working with Jewelry Hinges Made Easy

Sometimes working with jewelry hinges can be too taxing. And not knowing how will make your work even harder. Here's...
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Project Management for Jewelers

I came up with this system to solve some production and prioritizing problems at a small custom jewelry store. We...
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Lapponia Jewellery and The Message of the Sculptor

Lapponia Jewellery and The Message of the Sculptor

Björn Weckström had a decisive influence on the idea of Finnish style. Over four decades of cooperation with Lapponia Jewellery...
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Cloisonne Jewelry with 24k Wires

Cloisonne Jewelry with 24k Wires

Merry-Lee Rae has been making jewelry since 1966 when she joined her father in the garage while he dabbled in...
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Designing Contemporary Flatware

Designing Contemporary Flatware

No single item is more used yet more neglected than flatware. It is used in one form or another by...
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The Jewelry Clasp

The Jewelry Clasp

It does not enclose the precious object to conceal it, but to display it: the jewelry clasp. It protects against...
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Smalt (Ground Glass)

Smalt (Ground Glass)

Smalt is a word used to describe ground glass when it is either mixed with oil and applied to canvas,...
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Cutlery: A Matter of Taste

Cutlery: A Matter of Taste

Eating and drinking have been part of life forever. And people have always striven to make something special out of...
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Basic Jewelry Construction and Soldering Principles

Basic Jewelry Construction and Soldering Principles

A short review of construction and soldering principles would be a good idea at this point. They're fairly basic. Principles...
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A Conversation with Angela Cummings

A Conversation with Angela Cummings

In October of 1983 Angela Cummings announced that she would end a 16-year association with Tiffany & Company in order...
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The Seven Korean Metalsmiths

The Seven Korean Metalsmiths

Five thousand years of Korean goldsmithing was interrupted from 1913 to 1953 due to the Japanese invasion and the Korean...
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Paul A. Lobel: Innovator of Mid-Century Design

Paul A. Lobel: Innovator of Mid-Century Design

The accomplishments of Paul A. Lobel, industrial designer, metalsmith, sculptor and cartoonist/illustrator, may be viewed as the quintessential American success...
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Jewelry Design in Geneva Education

Jewelry Design in Geneva Education

A pretty red brick building from the 19th century is located not far from the city center of Geneva, a...
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The Metalwork and Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

The Metalwork and Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

Harry Bertoia was not simply a metalsmith or a furniture designer, sculptor or printmaker, artist or craftsman. He was all...
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Gold of Africa: Jewellery and Ornaments from Ghana

Gold of Africa: Jewellery and Ornaments from Ghana

Now this is a truly attractive book. One of those coffee table type books dripping with gorgeous National Geographic quality...
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The Work of Keith Lewis

The Work of Keith Lewis

Possibly the most controversial jewelry artist now working in the United States, Keith Lewis Is undergoing a transition from propagandist...
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Universal Expanding Ring Mandrel

Universal Expanding Ring Mandrel

The other week a friend came by the shop for some jewelry related lathe help. She was using a ring...
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Claire Falkenstein: Never-Ending Universe

Claire Falkenstein: Never-Ending Universe

Claire Falkenstein is a master of linear metal sculpture. Hers is not an art of solid form, as relating to...
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Along the Silk Road

Along the Silk Road

Roads connect. The various cultures along the Silk Road are spread out like pearls along a string. Its name is...
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The School for American Craftsmen (SAC)

The School for American Craftsmen (SAC)

The history of the School for American Craftsmen (SAC) can be seen as a microcosm of the history of the...
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Ring Sizing Tips and Tricks

Ring Sizing Tips and Tricks

Ask a seasoned bench jeweler how many rings he or she has sized and they'll probably give you a figure...
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Ancient Etruscan Metalsmiths

Ancient Etruscan Metalsmiths

Looking down the long corridors of time, the ancient Etruscans emerge as a powerful people whose economic and social development...
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2 Successful Stone Setting Tips

2 Successful Stone Setting Tips

Ask any experienced jeweler, and they'll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Kyoto, Japan

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Kyoto, Japan

To begin with, it might be important to present some background material on Kyoto itself. The Emperor Kammu founded Kyoto...
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Creatively Blurring the Borders Between Nature and Art

Creatively Blurring the Borders Between Nature and Art

The eclipse of nature makes it all the more captivating, especially for artists. Nature has been a topic that cultural...
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Hiko Mizuno College: Japanese Jewelry

Hiko Mizuno College: Japanese Jewelry

The imposing seven-story Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, often photographer for architecture magazines because of its unique design, juts up...
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Emmy Van Leersum: Lines and Patterns

Emmy Van Leersum: Lines and Patterns

Dutch jewelry designer Emmy van Leersum, who died November 2, 1984, had been internationally recognized for over 20 years. Her...
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The Enamelwork of Jamie Bennett

The Enamelwork of Jamie Bennett

It is a rare and most welcome event when a technical innovation is accompanied by an esthetic revelation. This is...
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The Helen Williams Drutt Collection of Modern Jewelry

The Helen Williams Drutt Collection of Modern Jewelry

The Helen Williams Drutt Collection offers a personal view of the development in fine art jewelry over the past 20...
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The Work of Tom Muir

The Work of Tom Muir

Silver has been a part of American domestic ritual and tradition since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when bourgeois families...
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Restoring a Hollow Link Bracelet

Restoring a Hollow Link Bracelet

This 14 karat white and yellow gold two tone bracelet has hollow wire links. The link near the clasp which...
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A Hard Metal for Delicate Jewels

A Hard Metal for Delicate Jewels

The bright, white metal exudes purism, suggests technical aptitude and hints at progress, zeitgeist and perfection. Jewelry made of stainless...
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Chinggis Khan: Art of Mongolia

Chinggis Khan: Art of Mongolia

As the global economy expands and the Internet gives us access to faraway destinations in a matter of minutes, there...
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Beads in Contemporary American Art

Beads in Contemporary American Art

Throughout history, beads have been treated as valuable personal possessions. More than thirty-thousand years ago, Cro-Magnon man strung pierced bear...
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The Jewelry of Michael Zobel

The Jewelry of Michael Zobel

What he wanted to be was a painter, although he was also thinking about being a graphic artist or book...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Washington, D.C.

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Washington, D.C.

This is a continuing series of metalsmith's guides to cities, regions and museums throughout the world. The purpose of these...
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Mario Pinton: A Father to All

Mario Pinton: A Father to All

Firtz Falk, the curator of the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, was the first to call it the Padua School, back in 1983....
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The World of David Freda

The World of David Freda

One function of art is to challenge the status quo-to persuade, shock, or seduce us into seeing the world, and...
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Victoria Lansford on the Art of Filigree

Victoria Lansford on the Art of Filigree

Victoria Lansford on the art of filigree—Russian or otherwise BOX: The Art of Handcraft Every jewelry designer can pinpoint the...
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The American Kayserzinn Pewter Exhibition

The American Kayserzinn Pewter Exhibition

The first American exhibition of Kayserzinn Pewter, the trademark for art pewter ware manufactured at the turn of the century...
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Giampaolo Babetto: The Jewelry Architect

Giampaolo Babetto: The Jewelry Architect

For Giampaolo Babetto, the student occupation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 1968 was a harsh blow....
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On the Nature of Jewelry

On the Nature of Jewelry

As the only magazine of its kind, Metalsmith is many things to many people. In an effort to encourage not...
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Profitable Jewelry Design and Repair

A few years ago, Jewelers Circular Magazine reported that over 75% of all retail jewelers in America lose money on...
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The Right Preparation for Visiting a Trade Fair

The Right Preparation for Visiting a Trade Fair

Trade fairs are still the most important platform to find information on trends and new products. Direct discussions between existing...
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Ivory and Bone: Archaic Materials

Ivory and Bone: Archaic Materials

Ivory and bone have been used by humans for sculptures and jewelry purposes from very early times. The Upper Paleolithic...
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Practical Jewelry Rendering

Practical Jewelry Rendering

Gems are a lot of fun to render, but because they require some precision, you might want to render a...
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Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 1

Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 1

For the last couple years The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro To Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Rendering Design and Process

Rendering Design and Process

This is the second in a series of articles on the art and skill of rendering jewelry and small metal...
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The Varied History of Platinum

The Varied History of Platinum

No other precious metal has experienced such a varied history over the course of time. Discovered early on and appreciated...
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The Boulle and Bjo Rue Du Louvre Colleges

The Boulle and Bjo Rue Du Louvre Colleges

Even if France is not offering the same high level of education in fine jewelry making as in certain other...
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Mary Lee Hu: The Purpose and Persistence of Wire

Mary Lee Hu: The Purpose and Persistence of Wire

Mary Lee Mary Lee Hu has worked with wire - looping, wrapping, weaving and most notably twining—for the past 22...
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The World of Sevan Bicakci

The World of Sevan Bicakci

The fact that the jewelry by Turkish designer Sevan Bicakci looks like they come straight from the legend of Ali...
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Memories of Tony

Memories of Tony

Memories of Tony Relationships with individuals are born in a variety oFways - my friendship with Tony Papp began at...
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The Work of Marie Zimmermann

The Work of Marie Zimmermann

Imagine walking into your studio and having the skill and confidence to create anything you desire. From the tiniest ladys...
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950 Palladium: Fabrication and Assembly

950 Palladium: Fabrication and Assembly

This article covers methods and techniques for hand fabrication, soldering and assembly for a custom designed 950 palladium and cultured...
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Jewelry Making Study Sheet

Jewelry Making Study Sheet

Jewelry making is a big job. That is that there is a lot to know and a lot to learn....
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Frey Wille: An Homage to Art

Frey Wille: An Homage to Art

From the ancient Greeks to contemporary art – this Vienna-based enamel workshop excites its clients throughout the world with artistic...
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Marketing Your Work as PMC or Fine Silver

Marketing Your Work as PMC or Fine Silver

The doors to the craft show have opened, and customers are beginning to make their way down the aisle. One...
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Creating a Two Tone Ring

Creating a Two Tone Ring

In this issue I'm going to walk you through the creation of a ring with two different colors of gold....
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Cast Hinges for Jewelers and Goldsmiths

Cast Hinges for Jewelers and Goldsmiths

Cast hinges are a very important part of much production jewelry work, partly because hinge assembly on such pieces is...
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Full eBook: The Jewelry Maker

Full eBook.48 Pages: Jewelry and metalsmithing are hard work, and also very rewarding. There is great pleasure in creating with...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Rome

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Rome

Rome. Truly the eternal city, where every monument reflects simultaneously the past and the present. As Goethe so aptly states...
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The Work of Michael Boyd

The Work of Michael Boyd

Jewelry artist Michael Boyd fills his cup with newfound forms and shapes. Well known for his contemporary roll-on cuff bracelets...
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Eutectic Process for Artistic Effect

Eutectic Process for Artistic Effect

Some years ago, I was working on a cloisonné piece using silver wire on copper in my home studio and...
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The Art Treasures of the Thracians

The Art Treasures of the Thracians

To date, Orpheus and Spartacus are probably the best-known representatives of a people whose traces have been lost in history....
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White Gold: Jewelry Made of Porcelain

White Gold: Jewelry Made of Porcelain

Porcelain – for over 600 years a well kept secret of the Chinese, before it was discovered for a second...
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Jewelry Using a Microfold Brake

Jewelry Using a Microfold Brake

With a simple corrugation tool and basic metalsmithing skills, you can make these great earrings. The newest toy in my...
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The Enamels of Annemarie Davidson

The Enamels of Annemarie Davidson

Active as an enamelist since 1957, Annemarie Davidson has made functional objects - from plates and boxes to ashtrays, trivets,...
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Squaring the Diamond

Squaring the Diamond

When setting a round brilliant diamond in a four prong setting there is some debate among stone setters on how...
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CAD/CAM Techniques

CAD/CAM Techniques

The strength of Computer Aided Design &  Manufacturing is similar to that of any other tool on the bench:it is...
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Peruvian Jewelry Art and Metalwork

Peruvian Jewelry Art and Metalwork

Peru, Land of the Inca, the Sun Worshippers, Land of Gold (the "Sweat of the Sun"), Land of Silver (the...
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Laurie Hall: A Primitive Contemporary

Laurie Hall: A Primitive Contemporary

It takes a powerful psyche to cope with and build on the kind of support and inspiration that has surrounded...
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Fascinating Interaction of Enamel

Fascinating Interaction of Enamel

The fascinating depth and quality of the intesive colors that are created by melting stained glass on a metal surface...
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Laminae Ex Voto

Laminae Ex Voto

Votives are objects offered to a deity in exchange for favor and in the cultures of southern Italy and Sicily,...
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Hermann Jünger: German Goldsmith

Hermann Jünger: German Goldsmith

From 1988 to 1989, German goldsmith Hermann Jünger was celebrated in his native country with a major retrospective of his...
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How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Draw Celtic Knots

A knot is what you create when you tangle up a piece of string and join up the two ends,...
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Master Metalsmith Alan Adler

Master Metalsmith Alan Adler

I first discovered Allan Adler's Silversmithing Shop about 23 years ago when I arrived in Southern California to begin my...
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Watercolor Technique

Watercolor Technique

This technique involves the blending of several transparent and opalescent colors on a background of flux flecked with white, with...
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Pierre Degen Plays: His Own Rules

Pierre Degen Plays: His Own Rules

"There are no rules there. At one point there will be an idea...and I will find a material that is...
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A Profile of The Niessing Company

A Profile of The Niessing Company

When we became engaged two years ago, we bought a Niessing tension ring, a simple band in which a diamond...
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The Work of Steven Ford and David Forlano

The Work of Steven Ford and David Forlano

Visitors to craft shows may know Steven Ford and David Forlano by their company name, CityZenCane, the polymer clay guys,...
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Elisabeth Treskow: Pave Maker of Modernity

Elisabeth Treskow: Pave Maker of Modernity

A changed world and new perceptions of life determined the development of jewelry art in the period before the Second...
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Opals: All the Colors of the Rainbow

Opals: All the Colors of the Rainbow

Due to their magical variety of color, opals are evocative of a solidified rainbow. These gemstones seem to have captured...
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The Curse of the Fabergé Eggs

The Curse of the Fabergé Eggs

In our April issue, we reported the 189-piece collection (including 9 Fabergé Imperial Eggs) owned by the late Malcolm Forbes...
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The Czar’s Gold Masterpieces

The Czar’s Gold Masterpieces

The Kremlin Armory houses unique collections of precious items that mirror the artistic wealth of the country and the relations...
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Translating Line Art into 3D Models in Matrix

Translating Line Art into 3D Models in Matrix

Line art, such as logos, family crests, text or numbers, cartoon characters, and even sketches can be quickly and easily...
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Naum Slutzky Jewelry at the Bauhaus

Naum Slutzky Jewelry at the Bauhaus

From 1919-23 the Bauhaus also had a jewelry workshop run as a private enterprise by Naum Slutzky. He was on...
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The Inventive Jewelry of Earl Pardon

The Inventive Jewelry of Earl Pardon

Earl Pardon's work has an elusive quality that is difficult to describe, yet this quality has motivated him throughout years...
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Diamonds: Nature’s Brilliant Idea

Diamonds: Nature’s Brilliant Idea

No other precious gem is as familiar — and coveted — as diamond. Learn the legends and histories behind some...
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Fusion Patterns

Fusion Patterns

This paper describes a process that combines techniques researched by others with a few well known facts about the properties...
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Namu Cho: Jewelry as a Talisman

Namu Cho: Jewelry as a Talisman

Clear floral motifs or forms like from a dream world, mystic color contrasts with soft waves, patterns that appear like...
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Jewelry Design and Manufacturing Process

Jewelry Design and Manufacturing Process

At GLJW it iss not unusual to see the sales staff wearing jewelers aprons and optivisors at one of the...
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Kiff Slemmons: Uncommon Means of Measure

Kiff Slemmons: Uncommon Means of Measure

Kiff Slemmons: Uncommon Means of Measure Kiff Slemmons’s jewelry is created as much for the mind as for the body....
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Repairing an Omega Earring Clip

Repairing an Omega Earring Clip

This project shows a challenging repair and reconstruction of earrings with a broken Omega clip and heat sensitive gemstones.
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20th Century Swiss Jewelry Designs

20th Century Swiss Jewelry Designs

A representative cross-section of jewelry design in Switzerland in the last century, entitled "The Art of Jewelry in Switzerland in...
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The Metal Arts Guild of Ontario

The Metal Arts Guild of Ontario

In 1946 a small band of metal enthusiasts in Toronto, Canada, formed the Metal Arts Guild (MAG) "to promote and...
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Phillip Baldwin

Phillip Baldwin

Phillip Baldwin Now that The Year of American Craft is here, the list of artists deserving immediate recognition and overdue...
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The Civil War Chess Set

The Civil War Chess Set

Richly detailed portrait sculptures of great American heroes—in solid pewter, solid brass and fine enamels. An heirloom chess set to...
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William Harper: Artist as Alchemist

William Harper: Artist as Alchemist

It seems only just, when so many barriers are collapsing, that one of the more prophetic artists of the late...
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Poul Beckmann: Crawling Jewels

Poul Beckmann: Crawling Jewels

Opinions are divided when it comes to beetles: while some people flee as soon as one of these six-legged creatures...
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Channel Setting Princess Cuts

Channel Setting Princess Cuts

Recently, a woman brought in her diamonds and asked to have a ring made with them. Her requirements were very...
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Charcoal Dust Bluing

Charcoal Dust Bluing

Sometimes when you are looking for one thing, you discover something else. The unexpected can change your course and you...
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Arline Fisch: The Art of Wearable Magic

Arline Fisch: The Art of Wearable Magic

The most intriguing characteristic of Arline Fisch's work, particularly the textile constructions, is their utter transformation when worn. What may...
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The Jewelry of Antonio Bernardo

The Jewelry of Antonio Bernardo

From autodidact to prize-winning designer: 30 years ago, the Brazilian national Antonio bernardo founded his jewelry production firm in Rio...
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Underglaze Pencils

Underglaze Pencils

Jessica Calderwood after having stepped upon some magic toes in history gives renewed credential to the field of enameling in...
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Prong Setting Round Brilliant Gemstones

Prong Setting Round Brilliant Gemstones

For setting round brilliant gemstones in prongs, many setters and bench jeweler generalists use a 90 degree low speed bearing...
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Jewelry Gemstone Engraving Over the Passage of Time

Jewelry Gemstone Engraving Over the Passage of Time

The art of gem cutting (glyptics in Greek) is one of the oldest testimonies to how installed, fascinating miniatures can...
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Bettina Dittlmann: Power of Subtlety

Bettina Dittlmann: Power of Subtlety

At Rhode Island School of Design’s recent exhibitions of work by graduates of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, objects...
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A Feminist Perspective

A taboo was broken when the word ”feminist" was used in the review of "Form Beyond Function" in Metalsmith (Spring...
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Dorothea Pruhl: Liberal Jewelry Sculptures

Dorothea Pruhl: Liberal Jewelry Sculptures

Breslau-born Dorothea Pruhl (in 1937) has been dealing with jewelry as a statement and the design of jewelry for four...
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Engine Turned Fine Silver for Basse Taille

Engine Turned Fine Silver for Basse Taille

Engine Turned Fine Silver for Basse Taille I do engine turning on precious metal. It is a joy. The finished...
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Sightseeing: Between Architecture and Jewelry

Sightseeing: Between Architecture and Jewelry

Anyone working in a creative field knows just how strong the influence between the direct environment and each individual’s work...
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Keraflex: The White Miracle

Keraflex: The White Miracle

If you wish to create filigree jewelry using porcelain, up to now you had been forced to make a mass...
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Lori Talcott: As Large as Life

Lori Talcott: As Large as Life

… And so it came to pass that of the mostly sons and occasional daughters of the Heroes, there was...
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The Jewelry, Art and Artifact of Ramona Solberg

The Jewelry, Art and Artifact of Ramona Solberg

In the three years since her retirement from 31 years of teaching, Ramona Solberg has had three exhibitions of her...
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The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement

"It is allowing machines to be our masters and not our servants that so insures the beauty of life nowadays."...
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Master Metalsmith Irena Brynner

Master Metalsmith Irena Brynner

The following text is edited from two interviews taped in 1982 with Irena Brynner, one by Dorothy Van Arsdale in...
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Contemporary Japanese Jewellery

Contemporary Japanese Jewellery

Contemporary Japanese Jewellery, In order to introduce largely unknown contemporary Japanese jewelry to the West, British jeweler Simon Fraser, working...
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Goldsmith’s Goldsmith: Pat Flynn

Goldsmith’s Goldsmith: Pat Flynn

Everybody knows Pat Flynn. Pat Flynn, the jewelerly jeweler. Pat Flynn the goldsmith’s goldsmith. The bear of a man from...
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Christian Schmidt: The New Naturalism

Christian Schmidt: The New Naturalism

Christian Schmidt is infamous for his contribution to the 1964 "Fiber, Clay, Metal" exhibition at the St. Paul Art Center,...
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Gerrit Rietveld Academy: To Abandon What Has Been

Gerrit Rietveld Academy: To Abandon What Has Been

It is named after a great architect, located in the southern part of one of Europe’s most interesting cities and...
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Melee Sizes for Better Layouts

Melee Sizes for Better Layouts

In modern-day fine jewelry, the most commonly used stone material is round brilliant-cut (RBC) diamond melee. Widely available in a...
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Vermeil Jewelries

Vermeil Jewelries

Considering metals prices continue to be sky high, it's no surprise that plating companies' phones are ringing off the hook....
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Master Metalsmith Miyé Matsukata

Master Metalsmith Miyé Matsukata

When I began writing about American metalsmithing and jewelry and researching influential artists of the 1970s, the name Miyé Matsukata...
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Mary Ann Scherr

Mary Ann Scherr

Machines have always fascinated Mary Ann Scherr – first the drill press, bandsaw and oxyacetylene torch, and now the computer;...
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Kathleen O’Rourke

Kathleen O’Rourke

Santa Fe jewelry designer Kathleen O’Rourke is describing a move whose opening shot shows a Celtic queen riding horseback, her...
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Computer Design of Jewelry

Computer Design of Jewelry

Professions and professional skills change over the years. In this context, it is an undeniable fact that computers have revolutionized...
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Layout Form / Template

Layout Form / Template

Click on the image to enlarge and download and you can use this layout form or template to help layout...
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Production Jewelers: Design & Industrial Techniques

Production Jewelers: Design & Industrial Techniques

This is the second in a series of articles about production jewelers. This installment concentrates on design versus saleability, the...
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Watch Design Trends 2004

Watch Design Trends 2004

The latest watch and design trends in 2004 make it obvious that the trend is going towards larger casing sizes...
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Making a 950 Palladium Signet Ring

Making a 950 Palladium Signet Ring

The natural beauty of this white, bright and light palladium ring is enhanced with hand engraving of initials done in...
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Laser Repair: Emerald & Diamond Ring

Laser Repair: Emerald & Diamond Ring

It seems like a lot of laser repairs involve emeralds. I recall the Indiana Jones movies where "Indy" comes face...
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The Jewelry of Sue Amendolara

The Jewelry of Sue Amendolara

Once upon a time, all art was about nature, the simplification or elaboration of natural forms. Egyptians assembled leaves of...
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The Jewelry of Barney Jette

The Jewelry of Barney Jette

Barney Jette and wife Nancy Ball have built a retail success story, solely focused on jewelry featuring Jettes design. The...
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10th Brazil Gem Show: Back to the Source

10th Brazil Gem Show: Back to the Source

The 10th Brazil Gem Show was, in many respects, a show reborn. Held March 15-18 in Governador Valadares, Brazil, the...
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CAD Design Problems

CAD Design Problems

Making jewelry is the perfect confluence of art and science. It’s where aesthetic and inspiration meet application and practicality. Computer-aided...
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The Art and Industry of Metal Furniture

The Art and Industry of Metal Furniture

In recent years, the design of furniture has invited experimentation by practitioners in a wide range of artistic disciplines. While...
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Charles Loloma: Spirit of the New

Charles Loloma: Spirit of the New

On January 7, 1921, a son was born to Rex of the Sand and Tobacco Clan and Rachael Loloma of...
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Sustainable Alternatives

Sustainable Alternatives

Jewelers redefining what it means to source responsibly Martin Taber is happy. “I am living in a world where people...
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Marriage Rites: The Ring as a Symbol of Eternal Faithfulness

Marriage Rites: The Ring as a Symbol of Eternal Faithfulness

In many cultures, exchanging rings as a symbol of eternal togetherness is an integral element of the wedding rituals. Other...
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Flush Mount Diamond Setting

Flush Mount Diamond Setting

Flush setting, or "gypsy setting" as it is sometimes known, is a somewhat exacting and delicate setting technique. The main...
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The Intimate World of Alexander Calder

The Intimate World of Alexander Calder

The real Alexander Calder is to be found in the intimate work – the toys, gadgets, jewelry – those delightful...
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Hermann Junger: Goldsmith Art is with Global Charisma

Hermann Junger: Goldsmith Art is with Global Charisma

Professor Hermann Jünger, one of the most defining personalities in goldsmith art over the second half of the last century,...
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The Jewelry of Barbara Seidenath

The Jewelry of Barbara Seidenath

When Venetian glassmakers sold out their state secrets to Czech glassmakers, Jablonec began its hegemony in glass beads. The region...
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Fish Tail Setting

Fish Tail Setting

This wonderful style of setting has been around the world of stone setting for many, many years. As you can...
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Karl Fischer GmbH: One for All

Karl Fischer GmbH: One for All

Regardless of whether it is question of machines, tools, equipment, working materials and chemicals, findings, gemstones or pearls for gold...
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Sand Casting

Sand Casting

Sand casting is among the oldest techniques of duplicating items of jewelry. It is simple in terms of equipment, but...
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Tricia Young

Tricia Young

Along with a desire to know how things work and how to do things, I have had a lifelong fascination...
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A Conversation with Michael Rowe

A Conversation with Michael Rowe

Michael Rowe uses functional containers as a base from which to explore formal studies of space, form and balance, which...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Tokyo, Japan

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Tokyo, Japan

Nothing is simple in Tokyo—not the language, not the culture, not the geography. Even getting information is a major task...
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Social Networking Tips for Jewelry Companies

The most trusted way for Jewelers, Artists, Craftsmen ' Metalsmiths to discover state-of-the-art products and services has fundamentally changed. Word-of-mouth has become a Metalsmiths most efficient way of learning about new products...
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Phillip Fike

Phillip Fike

When I sought out a writing project Metalsmith proposed Phillip Fike, a founding member of SNAG, and resident of my...
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Katharina Bianca Vones: Deep Beneath the Sea

Katharina Bianca Vones: Deep Beneath the Sea

Since her first year of studies at the Edinburgh College of Art, Katharina Bianca Vones has been deluged with awards...
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China’s Treasure Island

China’s Treasure Island

Golden, white, and rose-colored pearls of dubious quality dangle from her outstretched arms. At least 20 more strands are draped...
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Heinz Brummel

Heinz Brummel

Upon entering his studio, anyone familiar with Heinz Brummel’s work will recognize the playful geometry of the vignette making up...
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The Jewlery of Alberto Zorzi

The Jewlery of Alberto Zorzi

People who think exclusively of geometric forms when they hear the name Alberto Zorzi only know half the story. His...
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How to Make a Plique a Jour Fairy

How to Make a Plique a Jour Fairy

This is a HIDI, (How I Do It). It is not the only way to make a piece like this,...
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Judging Juried Exhibition

Judging Juried Exhibition

The cry of the rejected: “Why?” is the loudest single continuing lament heard after every juried show. Even when juror’s...
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Himalayan Ruby Hunt

Himalayan Ruby Hunt

In February 2006, some unusual rubies began to appear in the gem market in Bangkok, Thailand. They were both attractive...
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Proudly South African

Proudly South African

Although the political situation has caused a reorientation and reevaluation of the entire society for years, not very much has...
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Charon Kransen Arts

Charon Kransen Arts

Charon Kransen, a New Yorker by choice, has dedicated himself with passion to innovative jewelry design – he has been...
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Master Metalsmith John Paul Miller

Master Metalsmith John Paul Miller

A provocative dilemma evolves when one attempts to use the written word to describe things which are in essence ineffable....
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Sigurd Persson: A Truly Genuine Modernist

Sigurd Persson: A Truly Genuine Modernist

The Swedish silversmith and designer Sigurd Persson retained his most typical characteristics to a ripe old age: his creativity and...
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Metalsmith 1997 Exhibition

Metalsmith 1997 Exhibition

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the 1997 Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Greg Campbell, David...
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The Evolution of Metal Clay Design

The Evolution of Metal Clay Design

In 1996, Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, introduced artists and jewelers in the United States to Precious Metal Clay...
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The Jewish Ceremonial Objects

The Jewish Ceremonial Objects

Jewish ceremonial objects have been in production since ancient times. Periodic migrations, voluntary and otherwise, distributed the Jewish people throughout...
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Richard Reinhardt: Discontinuous Continuity

Richard Reinhardt: Discontinuous Continuity

Richard Reinhardt's best-known pieces today are silver bracelets, constructed in concave or convex forms that curve smoothly and logically in...
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Hilde Leiss: A Very Special Jewelry Show

Hilde Leiss: A Very Special Jewelry Show

Where else, if not in Hamburg, this unique riverside city, has jewelry earned a platform that exceeds the bounds of...
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Jeweler Larry Bruno Recycles

Jeweler Larry Bruno Recycles

When Larry Bruno built his new store across from picturesque Springfield Falls in western Pennsylvania, he knew he had lucked...
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Angela Hübel: Sculptures for the Hand

Angela Hübel: Sculptures for the Hand

Large and comfortable – this is the style of the rings created by the Munich-based jewelry designer Angela Hübel. The...
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Agate: Nature’s Fingerprint

Agate: Nature’s Fingerprint

A petrified miracle of creation – most deserving of this kind of finely sensual description is agate. Agate is found...
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Klaus Ullrich: Pioneer and Pedagogue

Klaus Ullrich: Pioneer and Pedagogue

February 11, 1954: “Traces of work appear to be something akin to ornaments of contemporary society. If you, Klaus Ullrich,...
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Jade Snow Wong

Jade Snow Wong

Jade Snow Wong 1922 – 2006 Jade Snow Wong, an extraordinarily accomplished enamelist, ceramist, and author, died on Thursday, March...
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3 Top Challenges for Jewelry Makers in 2014

3 Top Challenges for Jewelry Makers in 2014

Editor's Note: Looking ahead at the coming year, it's just as important to consider the challenges facing the jewelry industry...
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Helen Shirk: Patterns of Growth

Helen Shirk: Patterns of Growth

Last fall, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee hosted a retrospective of the work of Helen Shirk. Nearly...
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Otto Künzli: Freedom of Opportunity

Otto Künzli: Freedom of Opportunity

The various education centers for jewelry design offer very different ways of completing a course of stuides to become a...
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Wendy Ramshaw: Picasso’s Ladies

Wendy Ramshaw: Picasso’s Ladies

Those of us who have been following Wendy Ramshaw's work, for close to 20 years, hove come to anticipate the...
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Cultural Myths Defining Jewelry

Cultural Myths Defining Jewelry

A woman's job evaluation included the observation that she showed unmistakable signs of penis envy. "The unmistakable signs were. ....
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The JCK Show: The World’s Elite Designers

The JCK Show: The World’s Elite Designers

The JCK Show in Las Vegas from June 1 to 5, 2007 is seen around the world as one of...
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Betty Cooke: Total Design in Jewelry

Betty Cooke: Total Design in Jewelry

In the Spring 1959 issue of Craft Horizons, entitled "U.S. Crafts in This Industrial Society," Editor Rose Slivka divides the...
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The Enamelwork of Bill Helwig

The Enamelwork of Bill Helwig

When enamelist Bill Helwig celebrated the half-century mark in July of 1988, his wife Lenore Davis, asked the celebrants to...
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Gem Dealer’s Secret – Table of Contents

Gem Dealer’s Secret – Table of Contents

This book is written as a guideline for the potential buyer of gemstones that are mined from the earth or...
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2017 MJSA Vision Award Winners

2017 MJSA Vision Award Winners

Some designers find inspiration in the night sky, others in the natural world, and some in flowing architectural lines. This...
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Metalsmith Suite iPhone App Test

Metalsmith Suite iPhone App Test

The jewelry industry today is not what it was 15 or 20 years ago. From CAD/CAM to inventory control software,...
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Platinum Casting with Gemstones

Platinum casting with gemstones in place has been the latest development before the end of the second millennium. It has...
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The Jewelry of Vincent Ferrini

The Jewelry of Vincent Ferrini

On the second floor of a historic wooden building in an elegant shopping area of affluent Concord, Massachusetts, is found...
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Findings, Clasps and Semi-Finished Components

Findings, Clasps and Semi-Finished Components

Small and intricate, they contribute significantly to easing the workload of the goldsmith. From classical ball clasps for the repair...
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Splendor Jewellery – A Labor of Love

Splendor Jewellery – A Labor of Love

Orsolya Ráski Nagy and Daniel Nagy Splendor Jewellery Budakeszi, Hungary First Place, Professional Excellence (4 or More Years in Business)...
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The Life Works of Carl Jennings

The Life Works of Carl Jennings

This past fall, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee mounted a retrospective exhibition of the work of master...
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Custom Antique Coin Pendant

Custom Antique Coin Pendant

This article features manufacturing steps for a custom designed 14-karat yellow gold and diamond coin pendant. The coin pendant featured...
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Margaret De Patta: Jewelry for An Ever-Increasing Minority

Margaret De Patta: Jewelry for An Ever-Increasing Minority

This article was written by Margaret De Patta in 1948 and never published. It is printed here with the kind...
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The Life and Times of J. Fred Woell

The Life and Times of J. Fred Woell

Fred Woell's spirit was born in and of the sixties. His molten slogans register, graffitt-ilike, upon the collective "wall" of...
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Manufacturing a Free-Form Pendant

Manufacturing a Free-Form Pendant

This article features the manufacturing steps for a one-of-a-kind free-form pendant designed and created by Barney Jette. The center stone...
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A Faberge Inspired Mechanical Jewelry Egg

A Faberge Inspired Mechanical Jewelry Egg

Early in 1984 Jack called to see if I'd be interested in creating an anniversary gift to celebrate twenty-five years...
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Betty Helen Longhi Exhibition

Betty Helen Longhi Exhibition

It is refreshing to see a designer of Betty Helen Longhi's ability break away from the museum mentality and move...
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The Jewelry of Holly Lee

The Jewelry of Holly Lee

It takes an interesting person to make interesting jewelry and Holly Lee fits the bill. Originally from a family that...
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Competition for Jewelry Made of Silicon Carbide

Competition for Jewelry Made of Silicon Carbide

Within the framework of the competition “Jewelry plus silicon carbide”, participants were asked to use the aesthetic properties of a...
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Cultural Influences Characteristics

Cultural Influences Characteristics

There are parallels in many areas: a carefree mix of style and cultural influences characterizes the overall trends in the...
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Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars

Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars

Fabergé – the name carries special significance even today. It is inextricably linked with the glamour of pre-revolution Russia. Fabergé’s...
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The Jewelry of Reiko Ishiyama

The Jewelry of Reiko Ishiyama

The delicious paradox of quantum physics is that matter exists simultaneously as particle and as wave. Much of Reiko Ishiyama's...
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Goldmines, Goldrushes and Nugget Jewels

Goldmines, Goldrushes and Nugget Jewels

“…GOLD – EVERYWHERE THE GLINT OF GOLD.” THESE WERE THE WORDS RECORDED BY HOWARD CARTER TO DESCRIBE HIS INITIAL GLIMPSE...
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Champleve Jewelry – At The Turn Of A Wheel

Champleve Jewelry – At The Turn Of A Wheel

After experimenting with the various techniques of enameling I decided that champleve jewelry best suited my interests. Being very familiar...
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Peter Macchiarini: A Modern Bohemian

Peter Macchiarini: A Modern Bohemian

An article in the February 19, 1982 issues of the San Francisco Chronicle ironically suggests that "No body of water,...
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Classical Jewelry Design Revival

Classical Jewelry Design Revival

The classics never go out of style. Classicism as a design principle has come to mean simplicity, proportion, restraint, and...
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Olaf Martens: Masks and Facades

Olaf Martens: Masks and Facades

Masks & Facades – Perspectives on St. Petersburg is a book handling themes of jewelry and the pleasure of wearing...
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Virtual Engraving in Matrix

Virtual Engraving in Matrix

When using CAD/CAM products like Gemvision's Matrix, there are a number of "virtual" techniques to achieve renderings that more closely...
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Alberto Alessi

Alberto Alessi

When the Tea and Coffee Piazza was introduced to the US by the Max Protetch Gallery in the early 1980s,...
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Jewelry with Precious Stones

Jewelry with Precious Stones

What is a trend? It is easier to answer what it is not: a designer’s inspired idea, which brings immediate...
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Brazilian Colors Delight the World

Brazilian Colors Delight the World

A country whose flag is comprised of four different colors must love vivacity. Brazil and the Brazilians most certainly do....
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Jewelry as an Identity Vehicle

Jewelry as an Identity Vehicle

Growing variety defines Portugal’s still relatively young jewelry design scene, which draws on other applied arts. Portugal’s history of contemporary...
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Lapponia: Jewelry Art from Finland

Lapponia: Jewelry Art from Finland

The unique style of the designers Björn Weckström, Zoltan Popovits, Christophe Burger, and Pekka Hirvonen has been the creative imprint...
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Experimental Jewelry from Senegal

Experimental Jewelry from Senegal

Experimentelles Schmuck design (Experimental Jewelry Design) is the name of a project implemented by the Berlin-based painter and goldsmith Werner...
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Color-Change Garnet from Kenya

Color-Change Garnet from Kenya

Kenya s new color-change garnet performs miracles in different lighting environments. In fluorescent light, it looks the bluest any garnet...
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Joe Wood: The Manifest Idea

Joe Wood: The Manifest Idea

Joe Wood says he was first attracted to jewelry for its economy – the opportunity to focus a great deal...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Toronto

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Toronto

In the Ojibway language, Toronto means "meeting place." At this site on the northern shore of Lake Ontario 18th-century French...
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James Cromar Watt

James Cromar Watt

Editor’s Note: This is the full text of a speech, submitted by Florentina Nichols, given by Christine Hew at the...
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Master Metalsmith Robert von Neumann

Master Metalsmith Robert von Neumann

This article was completed just weeks before Robert von Neumann's accidental fall and subsequent death on April 23, 1984. Books...
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Elsa Freund on Elsaramic Jewelry

Elsa Freund on Elsaramic Jewelry

We are often drawn to the naïve sensibility of self-taught artists in any medium. The fresh, unassuming quality of their...
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Overcoming Lightweight Casting Challenges

Overcoming Lightweight Casting Challenges

It's no wonder that as precious metals prices have risen to new heights over the past few years, jewelry castings...
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Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry

Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry

Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry is becoming a trend and may as will be dominating men's fashion as noted by  ...
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The Work of Jennifer Crupi

The Work of Jennifer Crupi

Cool, glistening, and vaguely human, Jennifer Crupi's sculpture and jewelry arouse curiosity even as they evoke fear. While the power...
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Daniel Pedersons planishing hammer came into the possession of William Frederick in a way that still provokes emotion. Pederson, a...
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Known for his contemporary designs, Andrew Costen of Costen Catbalue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, enjoys occasionally returning to his...
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In a poem of the T’ang dynasty, the cultivated man who eats his meal from a polished bowl gazes into...
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Chang's work is intentionally anthropomorphic, disturbingly so. She likens her technique to that of a plastic surgeon, shaping and sculpting...
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The assumption the business economist and philosopher Dr. Ulrich Freiesleben invented two revolutionary new diamond cuts out of pure boredom...
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Everyone has long seen gems wrapped in small wire cages with hanging devices, and more recently, the Dichroic glass pendants...
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Ask someone to define "fine jewelry" and you'll usually hear something about gold, platinum, diamonds, and other traditionally "precious" materials....
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This article describes step by step instructions how forged ring shank is done as described by Bradney W. Simon. For...
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Electrum Gallery was founded by Barbara Carlidge in June of 1971. She was prompted by the significant changes in the...
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Gilbert Poillerat French ironwork of the 1920s, as exemplified in the work of Edgar Brandt, represented a pinnacle of technical...
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Lisa Gralnick makes jewelry of rare power from imagined artifacts of our own time. Its extraordinary impact derives from her...
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The idea that she should become a goldsmith actually came from her biology teacher. Could this be the reason why...
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Kum-Boo 24K Overlay on Silver

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Kum-Boo (rhymes with “loom low”) is a Korean appliqué technique of surface decoration in which pure gold foil is fused...
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This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Perspective Watches

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Skeleton watch movements are small chronomatic works of art. Made by hand, they demonstrate the high level of craftsmanship involved...
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Lodz is the second biggest city in Poland. It is renowned for being a center of the textiles industry which...
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For nearly 30 years, Ambery-Smith has been using architecture as an inspiration for her work. Her name has become synonymous...
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Cecilie Hveding

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I attended a school for goldsmiths in Norway and worked as an apprentice for a total of 3 years before...
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Andrzej Bielak emerged as a gallery owner from his production and design of jewelry. Together with his wife Barbara Kanska...
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Laser engravers can do wonders for a jewelry manufacturer's hallmarking process, making it more efficient and leaving a crisp, clear...
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Once more the realm of engineers and number-crunchers, CAD over the years has become more user-friendly and artisan-intuitive. Similarly, small-shop,...
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This is a method to reduce technical problems which one repeatedly experienes. We all find during the learning process that...
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Standing in her forming studio, surrounded by hammers, stakes, and photo equipment, metalsmith Cynthia Eid is experiencing a moment of...
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Making prong settings for items that can not be fired in place. I would like to take you on an...
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The new campus is still a building site and will most likely not be ready for opening until 2009. However,...
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Chunghi Choo captures her joyful creativity in sensuous forms and beguiling surfaces, but, despite this sumptuousness, simplicity harmony and tranquility...
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Historically gem possession has been reserved for wealthy, royalty, or high religious leaders. It has always been human nature to...
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Messages on Jewelry Designs

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As many and varied as the reasons may be to publicize a message or to make a very personal statement,...
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Robert Lee Morris: The End of an Era Seventeen years ago Robert Lee Morris opened Artwear in the Soho section...
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Light and filigree, yet robust and elastic: feathers are one of nature’s true works of art. This magnificently colored dress...
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While firms in the US have busied themselves for decades with marketing goals and tasks, the topic was first taken...
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Metalsmith ’86 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

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This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1986 Spring issue of...
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Enamel technique has progressed in a logical and practical direction through the ages, advancing when inspiration, need or new technology...
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Getting a superior fit on your next custom ring order could be just a few mouse clicks away. Superfit Inc.,...
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I was introduced to enameling during a required Enamels course at the Bezalel Academy Jewelry Department. We were given an...
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Claus Bury's rejection of his immediate past, a long standing European tradition in goldsmithing, and his defection to the fine...
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Dan Jocz: Wearable Lightness of Design

Dan Jocz: Wearable Lightness of Design

Flamboyant colors and forms ranging from the simple to the expansive characterize the sculptural jewelry of the American metalsmith and...
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The Green Vault is Europe’s most magnificent treasure trove. It holds masterpieces of jewelry and goldsmith art as well as...
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A recent graduate who is selected straight out of school for a book portrait, international awards and distinctions, students invited...
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A customer selects a
 pear-shape sea foam tourmaline from your loose stone s
and informs you she would
 like a...
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Due to a recent comprehensive exhibition at the San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, we reintroduce to our readers...
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Pat Pruitt of Paguate, New Mexico, has been working with stainless steel for over a decade. Three years ago, he...
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Hidden symbol... Allegorical motifs appear in various forms on jewelry and items of grandeur from the Renaissance and Baroque. They...
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The Northern California Enameling Guild ("NCEG") and the ACCI Gallery recently sponsored an excellent show of works from around the...
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The very idea of wearing a 15 meter long, perfectly folded and starched collar is virtually inconceivable today. Yet these...
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Since earning a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983, Enterline has narrowed her focus to a...
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Binding Variety

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Whether they are cable, balloon, Maderia, rose, rolo or wheat chain, chains can be worn in almost any way. As...
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Rarely do we think of jewelry as a matter of life and death. On the contrary, ornament is typically perceived...
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At the 17th JCK Show in Las Vegas (May 30 – June 3) the elite of the international jewelry scene...
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Practicing specific procedures for pre-finishing and polishing of 950 palladium will make a stunning difference in the final presentation of...
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Over the last several years museums from around the country have been quietly purchasing sterling hollow ware made by Cleveland...
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Jewelry artist Steff Korsage followed her own determined path to find her own distinct voice, making hollow forms from metal...
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The Ardagh Chalice

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Ardagh now is scarcely more than a place-name; it is in County Limerick in Ireland. In 1868, while a peasant...
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This is an excerpt from an interview with Stanley Lechtzin about the life of Olaf Skoogfors. Olaf Skoogfors and Stanley...
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A swirl of myths and sagas surround this clear stone, which burns, releasing a beguiling, aromatic scent. The interior of...
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The Enamelware of Bev Yokley

The Enamelware of Bev Yokley

The sun rises over the tree line and spreads its light across the fields. The horse, donkey, and pot-bellied pig...
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At mid-career, goldsmith Glenda Arentzen still produces jewelry with the freshness that has been her hallmark for a quarter of...
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ECO-Maxi

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The ECO-Maxi, first introduced in Basel, represents a whole new machine concept: the world’s first single machine capable of three...
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The term avant-garde is freighted with baggage from its source in military language. Consider the implications of applying the idea...
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We all know them, the classic flowery and animal motifs made of ivory, which at the start of last century...
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The brain child of a private art-craft dealer, Denise Renard-Honhon, this exhibition presented 22 of Belgium's contemporary jewelry designers. The...
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A New Face for Time

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What does time look like? It has a round face with two hands that go round incessantly. But for creative...
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The Artemis Medallion

The Artemis Medallion

In northern Greece, sometime after the death of Alexander the Great, a master goldsmith fashioned this unusual medallion with its...
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The Metal Art of Robert Ebendorf

The Metal Art of Robert Ebendorf

Crushed tin foil, marred tintypes, rusted cans—some must have thought it looked like garbage. In 1967, this detritus of our...
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Sandra Sherman

Sandra Sherman

It has been decades since .jewelers have started claiming they were artists, but the long legacy of craft-as-design continues to...
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Dan and Daniela Imre

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Daniela: The thing about the jewelry is that it’s not just a little picture. It’s everything that surrounds it and...
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The Works of Solveig Haukaas

The Works of Solveig Haukaas

Solveig Haukaas started to work in an enamel workshop in Bergen, Norway when she was near 17 years old. One...
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Messages from a Golden Age

Messages from a Golden Age

We know only the images of a desecrated land. Spent, inaccessible and worn by a decade old war. Whatever was...
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The CounterSketch Studio

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Matt Stuller and Jeff High first started talking seriously about the idea that would become CounterSketch Studio in 2008. The...
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The Story of the Purple Heart

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THERE IS A LEGEND surrounding the defeat and surrender of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 which describes how the Commander...
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Gemstone Guide

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This page contains a gemstone guide to common abrasives used near gemstones; their usage, hardness rate and effects compiled by...
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T-splines, a plug-in for Rhinoceros CAD software and bundled with Matrix 7 and above, is a great modeling tool for...
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One fundamental quality for a successful designer is the ability to manage a solo career, battling to establish ideas in...
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The Search for Modernist Style Jewelry

It was about seven years ago, I was living in Paris, spending a typical Sunday afternoon scouring the flea markets...
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Kenneth Bates: Dean of American Enameling

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When I asked him who Kenneth Bates is, he laughed and replied "a simple dirt farmer from New England." However,...
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Artistically Folded

Artistically Folded

Wrinkles may be undesirable on the face, yet folds are present in many different forms in art. Folds are created...
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The Jewelry of Barbara Heinrich

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Jewelry maker and studio boss Barbara Heinrich keeps business strategies and artistic expression in harmony while creating jewelry designs that...
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The Jewelry of Donald Stuart

The Jewelry of Donald Stuart

Someone once called Donald Stuart a Renaissance Man, an that doesnt seem too far from the truth. In a career...
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The works of the British environmental sculptor Andy Goldsworthy are never actually complete, but are always either in the process...
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In Memory of Saraa Hopea-Untracht, 1925—1984

In Memory of Saraa Hopea-Untracht, 1925—1984

Saara Hopea-Untracht died on Monday, the 25th of June this year. She lived and worked in Porvoo, Finland where she...
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5 German Jewelers Marketing Strategies

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Five German jewelers who chose not to follow the traditional vocational training of "master goldsmith," but rather opted to study...
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Casting Gold to Platinum for the Jewelry Industry

The principle of bi-metal casting is really very simple: A wax model is invested, cast and finished. A secondary wax...
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Emergence of Modern Jewelry

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The Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim possesses one of the most remarkable collections of modern jewelry. This exhibition of works, which...
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950 Palladium: Successful Design Considerations

950 Palladium: Successful Design Considerations

Well designed 950 palladium jewelry plays to the strengths of this unique metal -- the aesthetics of its light, bright,...
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Contemporary Jewelry in Pitti Palace

Contemporary Jewelry in Pitti Palace

Florence is world-famous as the cradle of the Renaissance. Yet in the capital of Tuscany many think that this great...
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Two Paths to One Goal

Two Paths to One Goal

The 60s and 70s were an exciting time in the development of jewelry making in Great Britain. Until the, the...
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The Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim

The Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim

The Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim possesses one of the most remarkable collections of modern jewelry. This exhibition of works, which...
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A Conversation with Bjorn Weckstrom

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Björn Weckström, a Finnish designer who has enjoyed a virtually unparalleled opportunity in his native country, was the keynote speaker...
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Svenja John: Technoid Handicrafts

Svenja John: Technoid Handicrafts

Plastic is not a cheap, surrogate material for her jewelry art in the eyes of the Berlin-based designer Svenja John....
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Original Material with Eternal Charisma

Original Material with Eternal Charisma

When human beings started using natural objects for practical and aesthetic purposes, horn and tortoise shell played a dominant role....
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The Work of Judy Evans

In a speech recently delivered at the Platinum Day Symposium, entitled Evolution of a Design, Ms. Evans detailed her affinity...
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Makriyanni: Symbolic and Narrative

Makriyanni: Symbolic and Narrative

A dark room paired with elements of light makes contemporary jewelry glow in Andronikos Sagiannos’ Gallery in Athens. He opened...
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Harold Hasselschwert: Materialization of the Exotic

Harold Hasselschwert: Materialization of the Exotic

Possibly of another time and almost certainly of another place, Hal or Harold Hasselschwert enamels entice the imagination with the...
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English Painted Enamels

English Painted Enamels

English enamels, in the genre also widely classed as Battersea work [after the initial place of their manufacture] were profusely...
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Marilyn Druin: A Life Well Lived

An artist's studio can tell a story about the life and attitudes of the creative soul who inhabits the space....
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The Wearability Issue

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One of the major perplexing points expressed about contemporary art jewelry is the question of wearability – or, more properly,...
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The Art of Individual Packaging

The Art of Individual Packaging

Etuis, cartons, boxes, sacks or caskets – there is a large selection of packagin. They are appreciated by goldsmiths and...
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10 Years of Charlotte

10 Years of Charlotte

What started ten years ago as youthful pin jewelry is now becoming a valuable line. After all, Ehinger-Schwarz, the firm...
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Mark Stanitz: Material Evidence

Mark Stanitz: Material Evidence

The life and work of Mark Stanitz are a study in balances and contrasts. His physical life is lived in...
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Design Briefing as an Added Value

Design Briefing as an Added Value

Design as an effective “added value” enables large companies in the jewelry industry to opt out of the increasing price...
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Robert Lee Morris: The Business of Marketing Art Jewelry

Robert Lee Morris: The Business of Marketing Art Jewelry

Jewelry was never on his mind—at least not while he was studying art and anthropology in college. It was filmmaking...
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The San Francisco Metal Arts Guild

The San Francisco Metal Arts Guild

When I returned from Europe in 1951, my friend Margaret de Patta called and invited me to join a group...
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The Department of Trier

The Department of Trier

The Department of Gemstone and Jewelry Design of the University of Applied Sciences of Trier is the only one of...
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Pál Tóth Enamel Painting

Pál Tóth Enamel Painting

Pál Tóth, a wildlife painter, graphic artist, and enameler from Pusztaszer, Hungary, has been working with glass on metal since...
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Flat Topped Solitaire Setting

Flat Topped Solitaire Setting

The Flat Topped Solitaire Setting is a popular style setting that is slightly more complicated to set than the standard...
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Galleries: The Yaw Gallery

This is a continuing series on galleries that specialize in jewelry and metalwork. The Yaw Gallery is owned and operated...
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Lisel Salzer

Lisel Salzer

Lisel Salzer, 99, Seattle Artist Who Fled Nazis by Sheila Farr, Seattle Times art critic from The Seattle Times, Tuesday,...
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Susan Hamlet: Culture Of Materials

Susan Hamlet: Culture Of Materials

"Culture of materials," an expression originating from the early 20th-century teaching of Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, defines the artist's deliberate...
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The Holloware of David Huang

The Holloware of David Huang

Several disparate techniques and a clear personal philosophy came together over a period of years to produce these extraordinary pieces....
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Barbara Cartlidge: Silver and Electrum

Barbara Cartlidge: Silver and Electrum

What were you doing in June 1971? Are you still doing it today, 25 years later, and in the same...
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Caroline Broadhead: Jewelry and Beyond

Caroline Broadhead: Jewelry and Beyond

Deborah Norton interviewed Caroline Broadhead regarding her recent retrospective at the Crafts Council in London and her recent change from...
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Kalahari Pearls

Kalahari Pearls

His roots lie both in France, the land of Haute Couture, and also in Africa, the continent of tradition. Joining...
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Making a Yellow Gold and Platinum Ring

Making a Yellow Gold and Platinum Ring

This two-part series highlights tips and techniques, tools and accessories and procedures for custom making the 18 karat yellow gold...
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The work of Robly Glover

The work of Robly Glover

Archetypal images in sheet-constructed holloware, the vessels of Robly Glover give concrete form to the most ethereal and intuitive of...
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Fabricating a Free Form Opal Pendant

Fabricating a Free Form Opal Pendant

I received this opal from a woman who had cut it years ago. Her customer was aware it had a...
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Germans and Japanese: Barring Punctuality

Barring punctuality, Germany and Japan don’t seem to have a lot of things in common culturally. Still, the ties that...
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Full eBook: Practical Jewelry Rendering

Full eBook: Practical Jewelry Rendering

This practical tool-in-a-book combines instruction on rendering techniques with unique guides that assist designers as they conceive jewelry and other...
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In Memory of Adda Husted-Andersen, 1900-1990

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On September 13, 1990, Adda Husted-Andersen, familiarly known as Andy, died in Copenhagen, Denmark, her native land. She was a...
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Striking Crafts Skill

Striking Crafts Skill

An old crafts skill in a new light: a touch of nostalgia is evident in the guilloche dials or cases,...
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Metalsmith ’85 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’85 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1985 Winter issue of...
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Making a White Gold and Turquoise Cameo Pendant

Making a White Gold and Turquoise Cameo Pendant

This article covers techniques for making this custom designed 14-karat white and 22-karat yellow gold granulated pendant for a customers...
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The Work of Judith Hoyt

For more than 20 years Judith Hoyt has parsed the human figure in metal and mixed media. Beginning with a...
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Enamel in Academic Jewelry

Enamel in Academic Jewelry

In mid-April of 2008, the SUNY-New Paltz MFA Metal program suspended its rigorous schedule for about a week. What were...
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Lynda Watson-Abbott: Visual Diaries

Lynda Watson-Abbott: Visual Diaries

Some people keep written diaries, others carry a camera, while others use the latest in video technology to record their...
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Metalsmith ’88 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’88 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Summer issue of the...
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Hiroko Sato Pijanowski – Artistic Research Into Spiritual Expression

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Creativity is problem-solving, a skill based on the conscious and/or unconscious recombination and juxtaposition of information derived from diverse sources...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2008 2

GZ Art+Design Spots 2008 2

Success in Silver Even as a child, he wanted to be an artist - today he is an internationally renowned...
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Getting to know Mark Loren

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This article is an interview with jewelry designer Mark Loren. Read on to get his insights and genius behind his...
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Making a Double Domed Pendant

Making a Double Domed Pendant

This article covers techniques for making an 18-karat double domed yellow gold pendant. The front side will have a bezel...
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CAD/CAM: Passion and Innovation

CAD/CAM: Passion and Innovation

Greg Stopka and his wife Lee began JewelSmiths 18 years ago with a belief they could succeed by providing jewelry...
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Max Frölich

Max Frölich

Two gold brooches arrive in the post – each bear an applied spiral on the surface not unlike Brancusi’s symbol...
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The Typical Scandinavian Design

The Typical Scandinavian Design

Clear air, vast landscapes, steel blue skies, mysterious sparkling lakes, a dark blue sea and unspoiled nature – the landscape...
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Artistic Jewelry Austrian Galleries

Artistic Jewelry Austrian Galleries

Many galleries have tried to exhibit artistic jewelry in the past, but only few remained. They have gained international reputation...
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How the Sun Tells Time

How the Sun Tells Time

The measurement of time has passed through many stages. From water clocks and candle clocks, hour glasses and clockwork through...
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William Underhill: Organic Geometry

William Underhill: Organic Geometry

William Underhill came to bronze pots just as his teacher at the University of California at Berkeley Peter Voulkos was...
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John Cage: Seeing Sound

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John Cage was a pioneer of modern sound art with his idea of incorporating complete silence and accidental everyday noise...
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Fads and Fallacies: Surrealism in Jewelry

Fads and Fallacies: Surrealism in Jewelry

While Surrealism has had a major impact on how we look at 20th-century art, the same cannot be said for...
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Origins, Evolution and the Practice of Enameling

Origins, Evolution and the Practice of Enameling

More than 3000 years ago, someone spread powdered glass onto metal, probably gold, and subjected it to sufficient heat to...
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The Perfect Paradox

The Perfect Paradox

Tone Vigeland’s oeuvre is contradiction objectified. Her jewelry is a visual discourse between opposites: large-small, hard-soft, rigid-fluid, tight-loose, inertia-movement, stricture-freedom,...
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Creative Freedom with Technology

Creative Freedom with Technology

The jewelry industry has seen a veritable flood of new technologies in recent years—from CAD/CAM and laser welders to new...
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Wilhelm Krische: Jewelry Stone Made of Milk

Wilhelm Krische: Jewelry Stone Made of Milk

In 1898, Wilhelm Krische, owner of a factory that made history books and a stone printing shop, patented one of...
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Legacy: Jewelry Techniques of West Africa

Legacy: Jewelry Techniques of West Africa

With little more than an anvil and a small box of tools, successive generations of jewelers in West Africa have...
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Design-Jewelry for a Cultural Elite

The first pages of contemporary Italian jewelry were written some half a century ago in Padua, by the enterprising pioneer:...
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The Track Record of the Modern Watch

The Track Record of the Modern Watch

The track record of the modern watch was when the art of watch making mutated from a more or less...
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Netsuke: Miniature Masterpieces

Netsuke: Miniature Masterpieces

Kimonos have neither pockets nor button. Things such as wallets or small, lacquered boxes with lots of compartments (inro), containers...
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Jewelry from Enamel Lumps

Jewelry from Enamel Lumps

What is a jewel? I like to think of a jewel as a bauble that looks precious and shiny and...
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The Silversmith Mandate: Looking at the Future

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The following are excerpts from a panel discussion chaired by Lois Etherington Betteridge at the Society of North American Goldsmiths’...
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Exhibition Concept Evokes Wanderlust

With his international exhibition concept, which supports and promotes dialogue between foreign jewelry artists and those from Germany, Udo Adam-Pasquale...
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Dorothee Striffler: Queen of Quads

Dorothee Striffler: Queen of Quads

Dorothee Striffler has made her choice: the square is far and away her favorite form. And, there are good reasons...
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A Dedication to Olaf Skoogfors

A Dedication to Olaf Skoogfors

Born in Bredsjo, Sweden, June 27, 1930, Olaf Skoogfors initially came to the United States when he was four years...
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Design Considerations for Pendants

Design Considerations for Pendants

When making a pendant the bail should be something that is incorporated into the design of the pendant if at...
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Metalsmith ’86 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’86 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1986 Fall issue of...
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Playing Favorites with Dallae Kang

Playing Favorites with Dallae Kang

It’s easy to name your favorite gemstone or metal to work in, but what if you had to name your...
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Metalsmith ’91 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’91 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1991 Summer issue of the...
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Fridl Blumenthal: Grand Dame of Metalwork

Fridl Blumenthal: Grand Dame of Metalwork

Having turned 80 with the spring this year, Fridl Blumenthal qualifies as a grand old lady of metalwork. Like grande...
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The Work of Georg Bunz

The Work of Georg Bunz

The renowned jewelry and watch manufacturer Bunz will celebrate its 30th anniversary in June 2005. Since the company was launched...
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Ken Vickerson: Mind and Matter

Ken Vickerson: Mind and Matter

Ken Vickerson’s jewellery is a study in balance. While respected as a consummate craftsman, a deep philosophical streak compels this...
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Argentium Sterling Silver

Argentium Sterling Silver

Standard sterling silver is not a perfect material to work with firescale adds extra production costs and the tarnishing characteristic...
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2017 Top Jewelry Trends

2017 Top Jewelry Trends

Discover the 2017 Top Jewelry Trends in gold, silver, and platinum—and an update on the metals markets as compiled by...
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Fabricated Reversible Pearl Pendant

Fabricated Reversible Pearl Pendant

Design ideas often begin one way, then evolve into something different. Such was the case with Robin Waynee's two-sided palladium...
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Bead Setting Method – Part 2

Bead Setting Method – Part 2

Now that we have done all the necessary preliminary "raising of beads" and "line-cutting" in the last issue, we are...
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Design and Color in the Highest Qualities

Design and Color in the Highest Qualities

Color is once more restored to jewelry. The playfulness and the romantic reminiscence of the current design appear to draw...
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Joan Dulla – Respect for Niobium

Joan Dulla – Respect for Niobium

Dulla crochets niobium wire into airy beads and necklaces studded with Swarovski crystals. The result is jewelry that is bright,...
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Samuel Yellin, Metalworker

Samuel Yellin, Metalworker

At a time marked by an international revival of the blacksmith's art, the Samuel Yellin exhibition at the Federal Reserve...
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The Jewelry of Patsy Croft

The Jewelry of Patsy Croft

"Bright colors we can find only in nature, quality craftsmanship that will outlast the seasons, and a promise to do...
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A Merchant Ship Full of Treasures

A Merchant Ship Full of Treasures

The merchant ship that sank off the coast of Turkey over 3,300 years ago and that divers salvaged in 10...
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Cheuk Ying Kwan – Purposely Imperfect

Cheuk Ying Kwan – Purposely Imperfect

Cheuk Ying Kwan Hong Kong Design Institute Hong Kong First Place, Future of the Industry Cheuk Ying Kwan, a student...
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Worn Symbols: The Varied Forms of Body Jewelry

Worn Symbols: The Varied Forms of Body Jewelry

People have adorned their bodies all round the globe since the dawn of time. They drew on paints, scars, tattoos,...
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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch

Their design is racy, their charisma immense and their enthusiasm is catching: young watch brands are kicking up a storm...
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Observations: Alyssa Dee Krauss

Observations: Alyssa Dee Krauss

A number of metalsmiths have shown an interest in including text as an integral part of their work. Many of...
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Contemporary Trends in Silver Design

Contemporary Trends in Silver Design

Since 1965, the Silver Triennial, initiated by the Society for Goldsmith Art and the German Goldsmith House, has succeeded in...
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Wolf-Peter Schwarz: When It’s Night in Helsinski

Wolf-Peter Schwarz: When It’s Night in Helsinski

...it’s daybreak in Honolulu. Wolf-Peter Schwarz known to most jewelry-cognoscenti as the inventor of Charlotte variable jewelry, has come up...
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Thomas Gentille: Performance of the Ephemeral

Thomas Gentille: Performance of the Ephemeral

Although Thomas Gentille has the distinction of having a black ceramic glaze named for him, it is his little-known recovery...
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Antonio Bernardo: Jewelry, to Touch Hearts

Antonio Bernardo: Jewelry, to Touch Hearts

From autodidact to prize-winning designer: 30 years ago, the Brazilian national Antonio Bernardo founded his jewelry production firm in Rio...
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Art and Technics: Franklin Porter

Art and Technics: Franklin Porter

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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The Mysterious Power of Gold

The Mysterious Power of Gold

The artistic treatment of jeweler in South Africa has long been a subject of neglect. Now, this nation with its...
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Peter Schmid: A Mild Transition

Peter Schmid: A Mild Transition

It is a year now since Peter Schmid took over the reins from the world-renowned goldsmith and designer Michael Zobel....
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Next Generation Engagement and Wedding Rings

Next Generation Engagement and Wedding Rings

This article talks about creating the next generation engagement and wedding rings that has swept the jewelry industry today. When...
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Gold: Here Comes the Sun

Gold: Here Comes the Sun

Whether in ancient Greece or in China, in Peru or India, gold has not only been appreciated due to its...
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Crossing Over Jewelry and Watches Made By Artists

Crossing Over Jewelry and Watches Made By Artists

There has always been jewelry from artists, be they painters or sculptors. Some of them have been genuine independent works...
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Ornamentum Gallery: A Jewel in Constant Transition

Ornamentum Gallery: A Jewel in Constant Transition

His cosmopolitan origins are reflected in the choice of artists that he represents. Together with his wife, Laura Lapachin, Stefan...
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Watch Design Arising from Diversity

Watch Design Arising from Diversity

Watches are normally round or angular, usually with an analogue and sometimes an additional digital display. In the past decades,...
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Platinum Wire Filigree

Platinum Wire Filigree

Platinum wire filigree can be easily added to an article of jewelry providing a unique design element. The filigree can...
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Fads and Fallacies: Renegade Ornament

Fads and Fallacies: Renegade Ornament

Over the last several years, a growing number of North Americans have been obtaining nontraditional pierces. Pierced penises, nipples, navels,...
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Robert Lee Morris: Rebel with a Cause

Robert Lee Morris: Rebel with a Cause

Robert Lee Morris is a one-man revolution in the contemporary jewelry industry. What first comes to mind when you hear...
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Metalsmith 2003 Exhibition

Metalsmith 2003 Exhibition

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the 2003 Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Pamela Argentieri, Michal...
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Custom Made Jewelry Findings

Custom Made Jewelry Findings

Hali Baykov offers here some diagrams and notes, with the basic steps in making specialized findings, including double pins and...
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Lisa Norton

Lisa Norton

While Lisa Norton’s works give evidence to her interest in the concepts of value, utility, function, form and the cultural...
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Kremlin Armory: The Czar’s Gold

Kremlin Armory: The Czar’s Gold

The Kremlin Armory houses unique collections of precious items that mirror the artistic wealth of the country and the relations...
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The Enamelware of Alan Mudd

The Enamelware of Alan Mudd

The English enameller, Alan Mudd, born in Lancashire, began his studies in the fine arts, and served an indentured apprenticeship...
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Rebekah Laskin: Material Voice

Rebekah Laskin: Material Voice

Rebekah Laskin is an enamelist with a new subtlety and depth of purpose unique to the metalsmithing community. She has...
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Isabella Corwin

Isabella Corwin

Isabella Corwin resides in Maine, only 65 feet from the ocean. Her setting influences her with it's flotsam and jetsam....
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Master Metalsmith Ruth Penington

Master Metalsmith Ruth Penington

At the age of three, Ruth Penington created an apron for her doll, undaunted by the complexities of a pocket,...
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Stainless Style Steel Jewelry

Stainless Style Steel Jewelry

The trend toward white metals in luxury design is enjoying worldwide success. Post-industrial, postmodern, and post-informal: one of the principal...
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James Evans Jewelry & Small Objects

James Evans Jewelry & Small Objects

This article is a review on the Jewelry & Small Objects Exhibition by James Evans held at the Prime Canadian...
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Carrie Adell: Energies of Transformation

Carrie Adell: Energies of Transformation

Carrie Adell is perhaps best known for her jewelry which transforms common, familiar, organic and geometric objects and forms into...
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Munsteiner Generations

Munsteiner Generations

After many years of success, Bernd Munsteiner, one of the most renowned, creative, and innovative gemstone cutters from the village...
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The Work of Mark Rooker

The Work of Mark Rooker

Missiles chase one another around Mark Rooker's Circular Reasoning. Beneath the smoke plumes, lustrous silver water ripples on the bracelet's...
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Royal College of Art in London

Royal College of Art in London

The inspiring environment where the students of the Royal College of Art are trained is not only limited to the...
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Cultured Baroque Pearl Necklace

Cultured Baroque Pearl Necklace

This story details manufacturing and assembly steps for a cultured baroque pearl necklace with yellow gold design elements. pearl necklace....
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The Modern Art of Gemstone Carving

The Modern Art of Gemstone Carving

The art of gemstone carving had its absolute heyday during the 19th century in Paris. The main center of the...
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Basic Approach to Product Design

Design is a perennial issue for all who produce objects meant for a specific use, utilitarian, in contrast to objects...
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Tibet Monasteries are Opening Treasure Chambers

Tibet Monasteries are Opening Treasure Chambers

In the middle of March, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, the Dalai Lama, described the Chinese response to the...
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Felicia Liban and Learning to Enamel

Felicia Liban and Learning to Enamel

While living in Little Neck, NY, during the mid-sixties, I took an enameling class at the local YWHA. It took...
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Borneo and Beyond

Borneo and Beyond

For eight months from the fall of 1991 to the summer of 1992, I took a journey with my husband,...
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Precious Materials

Precious Materials

Accessories are the mark of style! In this statement, the fashion designer Christian Lacroix reminds us that lifestyle is the...
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The Adorned Woman

The Adorned Woman

Images of women adorned with jewelry can be found in paintings throughout the centuries. An analysis of paintings between 1660...
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Enameled Jewelry of Hali Baykov

Enameled Jewelry of Hali Baykov

The modern designer-jeweler must contend with a great range of alternative ornaments: with antique pieces and diamond studded ornaments, with...
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James Metcalf

James Metcalf

“Just what did I find in Santa Clara? Why did I feel this mountain village surrounded by pine forests was...
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Antonia Schwed A Life of Creativity

Antonia Schwed A Life of Creativity

Antonia Schwed, who died peacefully in September 2006, was one of the great enamelists of our time, and a pioneer...
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Gary Griffith’s Jewelry and Constructions

Gary Griffith’s Jewelry and Constructions

When Gary Griffith wrote this poetic meditation (see below) on the status of his work for an exhibition at the...
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Production Jewelers: Marketing Production

Production Jewelers: Marketing Production

This is the third in a series of articles from Metalsmith about production jewelers. This installment concentrates on marketing production...
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Linda MacNeil

Linda MacNeil

Linda MacNeil “How do I get inspired? That’s one of the hardest questions”, muses Linda MacNeil. “I look through art...
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Leslie Leupp: Exploring the Possibilities

Leslie Leupp: Exploring the Possibilities

A year before the first appearance of the Memphis collection at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1981, Leslie Leupp was...
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Ted Muehling: Sensual Punctuation

Ted Muehling: Sensual Punctuation

Before moving his studio operation to a ground-floor space in Soho, just last year, Ted Muehling lived and worked in...
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Tahitian Pearl: In The Black

Tahitian Pearl: In The Black

It seems as though the Tahitians were granted their wish: Tahitian pearl supply is down, and prices are up. Strict...
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Enameled Lava Workshop

Enameled Lava Workshop

Couleurs de Crateres is an enameled lava workshop, established by Mrs. Nathalie Fourniat in 2001 in the Auvergne region of...
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Galactic Jewelry – Galaxie

Galactic Jewelry – Galaxie

The most copied and still a hit: the pearl necklace “Galaxie” by pars pro toto puts its tenth birthday behind...
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Pioneers in Enamel

Pioneers in Enamel

Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley. The names are always said together, blended as if they were one person. Yet this visionary...
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Czech Jewelry Artistry: A Melting Pot of Art

Czech Jewelry Artistry: A Melting Pot of Art

The development of Czech jewelry design is contectualised within a wide spectrum of artworks, objects, sculptures and jewelry in its...
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Arezzo Oro D’Autore: Jewelry as Homage

Arezzo Oro D’Autore: Jewelry as Homage

Several Italian locations are bound to the typical manufacturing that has made them famous: Murano has its glass, Torre del...
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Sabine Brandenburg-Frank and Egon Frank

Sabine Brandenburg-Frank and Egon Frank

The goldsmithery and jewelry factory of Dr. Sabine Brandenburg-Frank and Egon Frank is located in an imaginatively-remodeled country house in...
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The Spirit of Werner Häring

The Spirit of Werner Häring

Far from the attention-grabbing feather jewelry collections and surprising and unique jewelry items, the motto of the new Werner Häring...
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An Interview with Leila Tai

An Interview with Leila Tai

In this article, renowned enamelist Leila Tai discusses her many motivations and inspirations as well as her creative process in...
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The Form Beyond Function Exhibition

The Form Beyond Function Exhibition

"Form Beyond Function" was organized by Kington and David Prince of the Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, in conjunction with...
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Metalsmith ’90 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’90 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1990 Summer issue of the...
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Pforzheim University: Reflecting Reality and Creating an Identity

Pforzheim University: Reflecting Reality and Creating an Identity

There are a lot of goldsmiths and jewelry designers out there who would state unequivocally that the Faculty of Jewelry...
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Modern Africa: A Jewelry Project

Modern Africa: A Jewelry Project

The contents of some projects are not restricted solely to creating a presitigious symbolic value, but which instead provide an...
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Telling Pearl’s Story

Telling Pearl’s Story

Pearl jewelry has come a long way from the days of grandmother’s proverbial strand of round pearls. In today’s retail...
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Transparency and Lightness Filigree Jewelry

Transparency and Lightness Filigree Jewelry

The thousands of year old skill of filigree production has enjoyed an exciting development in contemporary jewelry art. It has...
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The Work of Lilly Fitzgerald

The Work of Lilly Fitzgerald

The jewelry of Lilly Fitzgerald is washed in serenity. There is a soothing balance, peacefulness, and grace to her timeless...
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Plastic Fantastic – Plastic Jewelry

Plastic Fantastic – Plastic Jewelry

Art and commerce, uniqueness and run of the mill, fascination and irritation – tense controversy documents its young history. In...
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Enamel Arts From Korea and Japan Exhibition

Enamel Arts From Korea and Japan Exhibition

The Korean Enamelling Artist Association celebrates its 22nd year in 2004. The group is host to the Contemporary Enamel Arts...
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Megan Thorne on Lene Vibe’s Magical Jewelry

Megan Thorne on Lene Vibe’s Magical Jewelry

Megan Thorne, owner of Megan Thorne Fine Jewels in Fort Worth, Texas, loves antique jewelry. In fact, she shares that...
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Architecture in Silver

Architecture in Silver

In the Fall of 1983, the Max Protetch Gallery in New York City presented a collection of tea and coffee...
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Master Metalsmith Svetozar Radakovich

Master Metalsmith Svetozar Radakovich

This appreciation by Robert McDonald, former chief curator of the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California, was written...
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Intergem: First Address for Gemstones

Intergem: First Address for Gemstones

Hosting over 130 exhibitors and welcoming roughly 3,000 show guests from all over the world, the Intergem is the leading...
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Frederic Braham: Jewelry As Fine Art

Frederic Braham: Jewelry As Fine Art

Frederic Braham selects the technique and material for a piece of work depending on what the idea demands. He is...
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The Future of Design

The Future of Design

Inhorgenta europe (2005) - 20 young designers and newcomers to the trade fair have the opportunity to present their work...
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Hermann Jünger: Complex Simplicity

Hermann Jünger: Complex Simplicity

Complex simplicity jewelry for Hermann Jünger has always been an art of certain scale. The term miniature, I believe, is...
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Captivating Lightness of Stainless Steel

Captivating Lightness of Stainless Steel

Pawel Kaczynski has been creating jewelry with an iconic characteristic style for almost 15 years. But, it has only been...
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Modern Classics in Watch Design

Modern Classics in Watch Design

Innovative watch design can be more than simply defining what a chronograph should look like. Or is this not true?...
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Tone Down, Dress Up

Tone Down, Dress Up

This year’s fall and winter fashions are decidely subdued. The necklaces worn at Anna Sui’s Fall 2006 show reflect the...
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Alex and Ani – Positive Energy

Alex and Ani – Positive Energy

For Alex and Ani, booming success points back to manufacturing locally, with love Pharmaceutical salesperson Kelly Oliver logs thousands of...
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The Age of Solberg

The Age of Solberg

The art of Ramona Solberg (b. 1921) – artist, teacher, author, curator, traveler–not only changed Pacific Northwest metals, it changed...
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Metalsmith ’88 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’88 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Spring issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’87 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’87 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1987 Summer issue of the...
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British Jewellery and German Jewellery

British Jewellery and German Jewellery

On British Jewellery and German Jewellery, contrary to what one might infer about this exhibition, mounted at the Crafts Council...
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The Ethics of Materials

The Ethics of Materials

I have always thought that if no other lesson had begun to seep through peoples' inertia and greed, that at...
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A Rich Fantasy Life

A Rich Fantasy Life

In 1995, I embarked on a journey of personal discovery and some would say, simply, ego trip, by depicting myself...
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Metalwork in Japan

My study of metalwork in Japan began with the words, "First you will make a ring." The teacher ceremoniously handed...
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Stell and Shevis

Stell and Shevis

It was forever ago, as they like to say, when they first met. It was the Depression and they "married...
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Byron Wilson

Byron Wilson

Sculptor, jeweler, teacher, pioneer in large-scale studio metal casting, Byron Wilson has just turned 73 years-of-age. He is a fascinating...
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US Trends From Light to Dark

US Trends From Light to Dark

After the moody, broody looks for fall, American fashion designers cleared the air for spring with easy, breezy, feminine clothes,...
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Artists’ Jewelry in Galleries

Artists’ Jewelry in Galleries

What plan of action should jewelry designers follow if they wish to successfully promote their jewelry in galleries? Wait bashfully...
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The Jewelry of Connie Verrusio

The Jewelry of Connie Verrusio

Fascinated by the way things work, Connie Verrusio creates radical new jewelry forms from leftover functions. Connie Verrusio has double...
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Unreliable Fruit

Unreliable Fruit

The gemstone dealers in Ban Lung, the dusty capital of Ratanakiri province, Cambodia, work in a ramshackle group of storefronts...
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Metalsmith ’83 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’83 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1983 Fall issue of the...
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Setting a Three Stone Ring with Foredom Tools

Setting a Three Stone Ring with Foredom Tools

This three stone ring designed by Barney Jette has two flush set trillion sapphire side stones with a total weight...
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Mystery Box Jewelry Challenge

Mystery Box Jewelry Challenge

Welcome to the Mystery Box Challenge! You are among the select designers who have received this box of materials, Your...
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Atelier Gilmar: There was the Idea

Atelier Gilmar: There was the Idea

For 25 years now, the married couple and British goldsmiths Gill and Alan Saunders have run their own studio under...
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Great Minds Take Jewelry Design to New Heights

Great Minds Take Jewelry Design to New Heights

om Dailing works in metal and Richard Homer in stone, but otherwise they are very much in sync. Dailings jewelry...
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Laser Welding Plique a Jour Owl Brooch

Laser Welding Plique a Jour Owl Brooch

Laser welders, it seems, have as many applications as there are imaginations and types of jewelry. This laser welding project...
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The Work of Lisa Jenks

The Work of Lisa Jenks

Eighteen months ago, New York City-based designer Lisa Jenks began a partnership with Origins, the well-known skin care products store....
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Seeds of Knowledge

Six years ago, the Internet was still in its first flowering, populated largely by academics, students, and computer nerds. Although...
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John Marshall – The Birth of Time

John Marshall – The Birth of Time

John Marshalls position in American art is an awkward one. His sculptures of fine silver with acrylic, Corian, wood, and...
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Chhaya Kapadia: Exotic Design

Chhaya Kapadia: Exotic Design

The New York-based designer Chhaya Kapadia has now produced a new line featuring motifs taken from the exotic flora and...
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The Blue Miracle

The Blue Miracle

The history we are looking at here plays itself out at the foot of Kilimanjaro in East Africa. It unites...
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Wendy Ramshaw Retrospective Exhibition

Wendy Ramshaw Retrospective Exhibition

This exhibit, which originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1982, will be traveling for two years...
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Meteorite Pendant by Jacob Albee

Meteorite Pendant by Jacob Albee

Like many jewelers, Jacob Albee of Jacob Albee Goldsmith in Burlington, Vermont, buys stones without always knowing what he’s going...
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Remaking Material

Remaking Material

Contemporary American Studies scholar Ken Ames has stated that the time has long passed when one can celebrate the objects...
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Fred Fenster: Function and Ceremony in Pewter and Silver

Fred Fenster: Function and Ceremony in Pewter and Silver

Fred Fenster is a compact man whose quiet friendliness and diffidence belies the intensity that lies just beneath the surface...
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Internationale Handwerksmesse: A Rendez-vous of Art

Internationale Handwerksmesse: A Rendez-vous of Art

The fields of art, craft and design are becoming increasingly intertwined and the boundaries between them ever more fluid. The...
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Asscher Cut Diamond Design

Asscher Cut Diamond Design

When a customer brings you a 4.27 carat, E color, VS1 clarity, Asscher cut diamond, it's tough not to be...
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Serik Rysbekov

Serik Rysbekov

Serik became acquainted with enamel while studying at college. He graduated in 1988 with the specialty of "Art Processing of...
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International Exhibition of Enameled Jewelry

International Exhibition of Enameled Jewelry

Organized by the Museum voor Vlakglas-en Emaillekunst, Ravenstein, Holland Florale by Ralph Bakker. 2005. Enamel on silver, gold. Colour is...
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Enamelist Society of India Exhibition

Enamelist Society of India Exhibition

Since the inception of The Enamelist Society of India, in December 1999, we have been working towards the resurgence of...
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Hans Appenzeller’s Elegant Designs

Hans Appenzeller’s Elegant Designs

In April of 1983, a simple and relatively unpretentious store joined the ranks of the illustrious "boutiques" and other high-priced...
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International Cloisonné Jewelry Contest

International Cloisonné Jewelry Contest

Owing to 201 entried works from 20 countries over the world, The 20th international Cloisonné Jewelry Context has closed successfully...
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1991 National Metal Competition

1991 National Metal Competition

Cu3, as a national metal competition, was a sequel – albeit more than ten years later – to Copper 2...
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Organic Geometric Bracelet

Organic Geometric Bracelet

Always preferring a combination of metals in her jewelry, Sydney Lynch of Sydney Lynch Jewelry Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska, discovered...
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Bench Jeweler’s Guide to Setting Gemstones

Bench Jeweler’s Guide to Setting Gemstones

This Professional Bench Jewelers Guide to Setting Gemstones cannot anticipate every potential situation you may encounter. Always use extreme caution...
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Randy Polk – Stainless Steel Ring

Randy Polk – Stainless Steel Ring

A few years ago, Randy Polk of Randy Polk Designs in Fountain Hills, Arizona, knew he needed to make some...
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Agate: The Essence of Beauty

Agate: The Essence of Beauty

Agate cameos are made from dyed multiple layered agates, which are a regional specialty of the cutters around Idar-Oberstein in...
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New Zealand Enamelling

New Zealand Enamelling

When one looks at a world map to find New Zealand, it's easily overlooked due to its location and size....
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How to Make a Three Stone Dangle Pendant

How to Make a Three Stone Dangle Pendant

The assembly of this three stone pendant pendant appears simple but when using traditional methods to position and join the...
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Large Cloisonne Wall Pieces on Copper

I have worked in cloisonné on large-scale wall hangings and site-specific installations for public spaces. My work ranges from 8"...
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Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring

Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring

This article is a step by step procedure in Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring. The customer wanted a...
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Metalsmith ’86 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’86 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1986 Winter issue of...
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Art and Technics: Experience

Art and Technics: Experience

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Metalsmith ’87 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’87 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1987 Spring issue of the...
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Galleries: Quadrum Gallery

Galleries: Quadrum Gallery

This is the third of a series on galleries that specialize in jewelry and metalwork. The Quadrum Gallery is owned...
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Felix Lindner: Play with Ciphers

Felix Lindner: Play with Ciphers

For Felix Lindner, a goldsmith who was born in Erfurt in 1973 and has lived there for some time now,...
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Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry

Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry

Signals: Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry opened at Cranbrook Art Museum in November 1996 – a contemporary counterpart to Messengers in...
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Zoe Zong – Sky Is the Limit

Zoe Zong – Sky Is the Limit

Zoe Zong ZoeZong LLC McKinley, Texas First Place, Professional Design Excellence (1-3 Years in Business) "We're born, but we make...
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Learning from Europe

Learning from Europe

Metalsmith recently received a letter from Heikki Seppä, offering some of his observations regarding education in metals in the US...
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Design and Creation of Elesa

Design and Creation of Elesa

While at the Atlanta Bench Jewelers Conference, my friend Elesa Dillon (the national sales manager for Southern Jewelry News and...
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Colored Gemstone Jewelry Design and Repair

An experienced bench jeweler will often be able to create almost any design that doesn't actually violate the laws of...
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Metalsmith ’88 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’88 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Fall issue of the...
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Carol Kumata: Pandora’s Box

Carol Kumata: Pandora’s Box

"How to Wrap Five Eggs" was a dilemma posed by a cult book of Japanese packaging design in the mid-1960s....
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Metal Titanium

Metal Titanium

The metal titanium, named after the oldest deity of Greek history, was not discovered until relatively recently. Perhaps the gods...
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Shining Light Over South Africa

Shining Light Over South Africa

A bright light shone over the world of South African design for the seventh time when the DTC Shining Light...
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The Work of Jennifer Trask

The Work of Jennifer Trask

Jennifer Trask sometimes seems to approach jewelry like a natural historian, filling locket-sized, glass topped silver and gold cases with...
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The Best Way to Effectively Present Jewels

The Best Way to Effectively Present Jewels

There are no limits to the different ways of designing jewelry with gemstones. The selection of the setting is not...
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Christian Bauer: Wedding Rings

Christian Bauer: Wedding Rings

Christian Bauer is one of the major global players in the wedding ring business. The hightech smith from Welzheim near...
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Bunz Jubilee Year

Bunz Jubilee Year

The renowned jewelry and watch manufacturer Bunz will celebrate its 30th anniversary in June 2005. Since the company was launched...
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Metalsmith 1996 Exhibition

Metalsmith 1996 Exhibition

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the [YEAR] Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Ken Loeber, Kate...
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Architectural Dreams

Architectural Dreams

As the saying goes, it took James Kaya almost two decades to become an overnight sensation. The Boston-based jewelry designer...
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The Work of Ivy Solomon

The Work of Ivy Solomon

Ivy Solomon combining resin, metal clay, and traditional fabrication techniques, her award-winning pendants are structured around textures and colors in...
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Julie Mihalisin

Julie Mihalisin

“It’s one of those childhood memories that doesn’t escape you, but I remember being a kid, and I don’t remember...
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David Paul Bacharach – Weaving in Metal

David Paul Bacharach – Weaving in Metal

David Paul Bacharach is a part of the growing contingent of American metalsmiths who are challenging the Modernist tradition of...
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Metalsmith ’87 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’87 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1987 Fall issue of the...
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Gijs Bakker: Car Brooches

Gijs Bakker: Car Brooches

“I don’t wear jewels, I drive them!” This statement by the Dutch jewelry and product designer Gijs Bakker wrote history...
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Living Diamonds Fauna and Flora

The Antwerp Diamond Council (HRD) organized from 10th October to 10th November 2002 the exhibition “Living diamonds, fauna and flora...
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The Intimate Abstractions of Rachelle Thiewes

The Intimate Abstractions of Rachelle Thiewes

The third week of October was, ostensibly, a week like any other. But in the art world, it was a...
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Secret of Time

Secret of Time

Discretion is everything: ingenious designs conceal watches inside items of jewelry or accessories. The forerunners of these secret timepieces can...
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Jewelry Making Tricks

Jewelry Making Tricks

Check out this list of 19 jewelry making tips and tricks for preparation, cleaning, setting, how-to's and more.
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The Work of Jay Song

The Work of Jay Song

"I'm not a secretive person," Song observes, 'but my work tells me I have many layers. I have a secret...
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Enamels in the Delaware Art Museum

Enamels in the Delaware Art Museum

Unbeknownst to most enamelists, there is a treasure of turn of the century enamels at the Delaware Art Museum. I...
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Metalsmith ’95 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’95 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1995 Winter issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’85 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’85 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1985 Summer issue of...
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The Impulse in Contemporary American Metal

The Impulse in Contemporary American Metal

For most of this century, story-telling in art has been considered taboo. From the turn of the century to well...
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Portraits in Jewelry

Portraits in Jewelry

The portraits reflect the image a period has of mankind in a balance between ideal and reality. Bracelet, maker unknown,...
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Eternity Keeps Longest

Eternity Keeps Longest

Watch enthusiasts have long since succumbed to the elaborate and additional mechanical functions, the so-called complications. Classics among them include...
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The Jewelry of Sofia Calderwood

The Jewelry of Sofia Calderwood

The work of Sofia Calderwood seems to be asking, Why do we wear jewelry? Is it to gain the attention...
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Karl Drerup

Karl Drerup

Enamelist Karl Drerup's (b.1904) successful career in the United States illuminates the mid-century craft revival in this country. Arriving on...
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Jewelry Follows Landscape

Jewelry Follows Landscape

It is the playing field of the unfettered desire of man to design. Farming, industrialization and urbanization leave enormous cultural...
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Jessica Calderwood

Jessica Calderwood

Jessica Calderwood's work consists of enamels that walk a fine line between the beautiful and the bizarre. The process of...
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Laser Welding Sizing a Two-Tone Band

Laser Welding Sizing a Two-Tone Band

Sometimes you get a job like this one. Your customer has a platinum and 18k yellow gold wedding band that...
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The Metallum Gallery and Showroom

The Metallum Gallery and Showroom

It all started in the summer of 1981 with the offer of an empty shop in Stockholm's Hornsgatan section known...
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Florence Resnikoff: New Esthetic Potential

Florence Resnikoff: New Esthetic Potential

Florence Resnikoff delights in the use of color. Vibrant and glowing, muted and moody, color for her involves extending beyond ...
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Deja Vu: A Watch for Any Outfit

Deja Vu: A Watch for Any Outfit

Seven years ago, the jewelry and watch designer Brigitte Gertz-Ziegler from Kirchheim/Teck had a groundbreaking idea: “Lots of female customers...
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In Memory of Olaf Skoogfors, 1930-1975

Olaf Skooglors died at the age of 45 on December 20, 1975. In memory of Olaf Skoogfors these excerpts were...
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Ellensburg Funky

Ellensburg Funky

Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, is ninety miles east of Seattle across the high Cascade Mountains range and a...
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The Washington Guild of Goldsmiths

The Washington Guild of Goldsmiths

It all began in 1978. Gretchen Klunder-Raber issued an open invitation to all persons interested in metalsmithing in the Washington,...
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Meredith Beau

Meredith Beau

Recent cultural developments in America can be characterized by a conspicuous blending of manner and subsequently, class distinctions. The image...
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Collaborating with Insects

Collaborating with Insects

It took a certain level of obsession for us to combine our efforts and build a body of work around...
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The Law and the Art of the Goldsmith

The Law and the Art of the Goldsmith

Those in search of innovative, youthful jewelry design in France have to search long and hard. A vibrant jewelry-designing scene...
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Master Metalsmith Harold Stacey

Master Metalsmith Harold Stacey

Growing up in the house of a silversmith is an unusual experience, the more so if the place where one...
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Aninka Harms: The Closure of Circles

Aninka Harms: The Closure of Circles

In her 20th year of creating jewelry, Aninka Harms has returned to the place where her training as a designer...
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Ornamenta 1: Jewelry Classifications

Ornamenta 1: Jewelry Classifications

To commit oneself in the jungle of jewelry classifications, categories and specification; to express an absolutely clear definition is an...
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Metalsmith ’95 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’95 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1995 Fall issue of the...
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Sepp Schmolzer: Realm of Fantasy

Sepp Schmolzer: Realm of Fantasy

The Carinthian goldsmith, photographer and painter Sepp Schmolzer exercised a highly significant influence on jewelry design in the second half...
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Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant

Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant

Steve Satow describes the procedure on creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant. Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant Beginning components...
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Marcia Bruno: Exploring the Fluidity of Tension

Marcia Bruno: Exploring the Fluidity of Tension

Marcia Bruno has had to work long and hard to reach the level of simplicity for which she is becoming...
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Robert Ebendorf and Ivy Ross Exhibition

Robert Ebendorf and Ivy Ross Exhibition

While this was not the first time that Ivy Ross and Robert Ebendorf have exhibited together, this exhibition showed clearly...
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Galleries: Rezac Gallery – Conceptual Relationships

Galleries: Rezac Gallery – Conceptual Relationships

Rezac Gallery, a space devoted to avant-garde jewelry and decorative arts, opened in May, 1988 on West Superior Street in...
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The Representation in Contemporary Metals

The Representation in Contemporary Metals

My recollection of the first piece of metalwork I owned is of a pin consisting of two poodles connected by...
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17th Annual Saul Bell Design Winners

17th Annual Saul Bell Design Winners

Saul Bell Design Award Winners Named. Rio Grande honored the winners of its 17th annual Saul Bell Design Competition at...
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The Work of Darcy Miro

The Work of Darcy Miro

Artist Darcy Mire takes the term 'precious jewelry' and turns it on its head. Her careworn cuffs, rings, and neckpieces,...
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Ewa Buksa Klinowska

Ewa Buksa Klinowska

I have been an artist in enamelling for nine years. In 1999, I took a specialist jewellery course with completely...
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Getting to Know Gregore Morin

Getting to Know Gregore Morin

This article is an interview with jewelry designer Gregore Morin. Read on to get his insights and genius behind his...
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Making Custom-Designed Earrings Using Welding Technology

Making Custom-Designed Earrings Using Welding Technology

This custom job of 14 karat yellow gold earrings with diamonds and pink tourmaline is made easy using tack-welding technology....
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Galleries: Galerie RA

Galleries: Galerie RA

In October 1986, Amsterdam's Galeria RA will mark its tenth anniversary in the forefront of Europe's experimental jewelry movement. To...
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Metalsmith ’93 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’93 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1993 Winter issue of the...
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The New Interactive Jewelry Design Technology

The New Interactive Jewelry Design Technology

Take one 2.5 ct. cushion-cut peridot, add to it one very picky technical writer from a jewelry design software company,...
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Nico Taeymans: Jewelry and Other Stories

Nico Taeymans: Jewelry and Other Stories

The Belgian designer Nico Taeymans has a lot of stories to tell: The one about the boy who grew up...
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The Work of Gary Noffke

The Work of Gary Noffke

Preparation for writing this piece began, I guess, when I was six or seven years old. At that age, my...
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Communication with Jewelry Photography

Communication with Jewelry Photography

The photography of jewelry can achieve a whole lot more than just depicting products. It can focus on unique details...
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London-based Artist: Barry Sack

London-based Artist: Barry Sack

Barry Sack is a London-based artist who also works and lives in his native South Africa. Barry is a painter,...
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2005 Spectrum Awards Winners

2005 Spectrum Awards Winners

The 2005 American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Spectrum Awards competition concluded in October with 57 winners chosen from a field...
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1984 Jewelry International Exhibition

1984 Jewelry International Exhibition

With the exception of "New Departures in Jewellery," held at the American Craft Museum last summer as part of the...
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Platinum Design Competition

Platinum Design Competition

This year Johnson Matthey Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of platinum group metals, in cooperation with the Society of North...
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Measure and Alchemy

Measure and Alchemy

Gathering evidence of paradigmatic order, in cosmic, social and individual spheres, has been the pursuit of philosophers, theologians, scientists, astronomers,...
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AHCI: The Tinkerers’ Club

AHCI: The Tinkerers’ Club

Together they’re a collective of elitists: The most creative and best watchmakers have joined forces in the Academie Horlogére des...
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Arte Smykke-design in Oslo

Arte Smykke-design in Oslo

Aid to development, in the broadest sense of the term, seems to be the specialty of Norway’s most famous jewelry...
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The Power of CAD Selling

The Power of CAD Selling

As they say in the theological world, "necessity is the mother of invention" is just about how CAD or computer...
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Jim Dailing Crafts Sentimental “Story Rings”

Jim Dailing Crafts Sentimental “Story Rings”

Custom designer Jim Dailing of Bend, Oregon, has been making jewelry for 30 years. For a brief stint during the...
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1982 Sculptural Jewelry Exhibition

1982 Sculptural Jewelry Exhibition

Sculptural Jewelry ‘82 Contemporary Artisans Gallery, San Francisco October 27-November 20, 1982 Under the theme "Sculptural Jewelry '82" Contemporary Artisans...
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The Attraction of Visions: Inhorgenta Europe 2004

The Attraction of Visions: Inhorgenta Europe 2004

At the start of the year, inhorgenta europe in Munich will provide answers to the questions on how jewelry will...
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Charles Lewton-Brain Exhibition

Charles Lewton-Brain Exhibition

A goldsmith, not only a jeweler, Charles Lewton-Brain exhibits the competence and traditional skills accumulated through studies at the Nova...
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Andy Berck: The Slightly Different Gemstone Trader

Andy Berck: The Slightly Different Gemstone Trader

Getting the best and not the most out of every stone – this is the motto employed by the gemstone...
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Intimate Parallels

Intimate Parallels

Both in art and in literature, the function of the frame is fundamental. It is the frame that marks the...
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Jewellery in Transition

Jewellery in Transition

In early 1983 a call for entry was sent out across Canada for submissions to a multimedia, nonprecious jewellery exhibition...
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Metalsmith ’85 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’85 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1985 Spring issue of...
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Chinese Freshwater Pearls

Chinese Freshwater Pearls

When Chinese freshwater pearls began flooding the market several years ago, craft artists took notice. It is not that pearls...
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Cufflinks Making a Comeback

Cufflinks Making a Comeback

Although it can do two things at once - combine form and function - cufflinks disappeared from the world of...
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John Prip/Jack Prip: Arrangements of Changeable Form

John Prip/Jack Prip: Arrangements of Changeable Form

This past year, we were treated to a major retrospective of the work of John Prip in an exhibition that...
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Paul Robilotti – Renaissance Collection

Paul Robilotti – Renaissance Collection

Paul Robilotti of Robilotti Fine Jewelers in Binghamton, New York, doesn’t like to let inspiration pass him by. He always...
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Karen Mccreary – Mystifying Acrylic

Karen Mccreary – Mystifying Acrylic

McCreary is no stranger to traditional jewelry making. She took her first job with a jewelry manufacturer in the early...
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Linda Threadgill: Conceptualizing Ornament

Linda Threadgill: Conceptualizing Ornament

Threadgills keen interest in ornament undoubtedly arises from her longstanding practice of etching motifs into the surfaces of her works,...
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Beyond Tradition

Beyond Tradition

Bernadette Rodriguez-Caraveo confounds expectation. Just when it seems her work can be pigeonholed – as typically Hispanic devotional art, as...
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German Jewelry: Freedom Through Precision

German Jewelry: Freedom Through Precision

Mention German craftsmanship, and we think of diligent Black Forest elves making precision cameras and automobiles. Ordinarily, "precision" connotes accuracy,...
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Jewelry Repairs with ABI Mini Pulse Arc III

Jewelry Repairs with ABI Mini Pulse Arc III

This article covers routine repair and assembly projects accomplished using Mini Pulse Arc III. Tack-, fusion- and pulse-arc equipment settings...
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Echoes of Ancient Greece – Belle Brooke Barer

Echoes of Ancient Greece – Belle Brooke Barer

Belle Brooke Barer of Belle Brooke Designs in Los Angeles created a successful union when she brought together 18k yellow...
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2017 JCK Las Vegas Show Industry insights

2017 JCK Las Vegas Show Industry insights

The overarching theme in major presentations for the diamond and jewelry industry during the JCK Las Vegas Show in June...
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Barbara Heinrich on John Iversen’s Aesthetic

Barbara Heinrich on John Iversen’s Aesthetic

Editor’s Note: If we are what we eat, then are we whom we wear? While wearing your own jewelry designs...
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The Meaningful Significance

The Meaningful Significance

In a recent Metalsmith article entitled "The Future Perfect: Activism and Advocacy" (Spring, 1994), Kathleen Browne offered some thought provoking...
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Jewelry Designs: Faceted Stones Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Faceted Stones Pendant

Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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Book Review – Art Jewelry Today

Book Review – Art Jewelry Today

The very term art jewelry has been bandied about so much within the past few decades that one must endeavor...
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Knife Making Techniques for Jewelry Design

Knife Making Techniques for Jewelry Design

My dad was in the Navy during World War II and was among the personnel who entered Japan shortly after...
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The Cutting Edge of Blade Design

The Cutting Edge of Blade Design

To Bryant Clark design is foremost, and the designs for his hand-crafted knives are created from his knowledge of history...
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The Work of ROY

The Work of ROY

Twenty first-century artists consider how best to relate to our changing world in a meaningful way. Pittsburgh artist ROY has...
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Leo Fried and Nanz Aalund – Siege of Herons

Leo Fried and Nanz Aalund – Siege of Herons

  Leo Fried and Nanz Aalund Blue Heron Jewelry Co. Poulsbo, Washington Responsible Practices Distinction Nanz Aalund was looking for...
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Metalsmith ’91 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’91 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1991 Fall issue of the...
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Contemporary English Jewelry: From Dusk Till Dawn

Contemporary English Jewelry: From Dusk Till Dawn

The history of contemporary English jewelry started in October 1952, when the young painter Gerda Flöckinger registered at the Central...
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Interior Motives

Interior Motives

Myra Mimlitsch Gray’s work encompasses a broad scope of social issues brought to light by an equally broad range of...
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A Legacy in American Metalworking

A Legacy in American Metalworking

A Legacy in American Metalworking It was 9:00 in the morning in Lawrence, Kansas and Carlye Smith was heading for...
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Doneghy Collection of Southwest Indian Silver

Doneghy Collection of Southwest Indian Silver

At a time when the country is still reeling from the vogue for Indian jewelry displayed around the necks of...
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Vada Clark Beetler,  1929-1984

Vada Clark Beetler, 1929-1984

Vada Clark Beetler, designer craftsman in metal, passed away December 7, 1984. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Vada Beetler received...
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Tie Pins – Fashion Rediscovered

Tie Pins – Fashion Rediscovered

Like many decorative accessories, tie tacks exist because they have a practical function. The fabric, structure, and cut of the...
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Delicate Gemstones Design and Setting

Delicate Gemstones Design and Setting

Consumers today are more open to wearing unusual gems, and there is a trend among designers to incorporate less familiar...
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Catherine and Michael Jensen – A Fitting Tribute

Catherine and Michael Jensen – A Fitting Tribute

It’s easy to name your favorite gemstone or metal to work in, but what if you had to name your...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 1

GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 1

Collect 2006 – discover the art of collecting The third Collect will take place at the Victoria & Albert Museum...
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Tony Snodgrass: Flower Ring

Tony Snodgrass: Flower Ring

You never know how visiting the doctor could change your life. While Tony Snodgrass of Kent Jewelry in Rolla ,Missouri,...
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Bruce Metcalf: Between Darkness and Light

Bruce Metcalf: Between Darkness and Light

Bruce Metcalf's recent exhibition Between Darkness and Light thematically embraces and continues his ongoing concern with an anguished sensibility wedged...
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More than Stainless Steel Can Say

More than Stainless Steel Can Say

The marketing concept of the new German stainless steel jewelry maker TeNo is as clear and clean-cut as the material...
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The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

Reviving the virtually dead enameling technique plique-à-jour, which means "the light of day as seen through a membrane," has been...
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Jewelry Design: New York State Artists Exhibition

Jewelry Design: New York State Artists Exhibition

For the "Jewelry Design" show at the Johnson Museum of Art, Louise Porter, Coordinator of Crafts, selected both jewelry and...
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Titanium – Properties – Design – Processing

Titanium – Properties – Design – Processing

Titanium was not recognized as a metal and chemical element in its own right until the end of the 19th...
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Golden Messages

Golden Messages

As many and varied as the reasons may be to publicize a message or to make a very personal statement,...
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A Well-Devised Coincidence

A Well-Devised Coincidence

Sam Tho Duong always springs to mind whenever I think of ginger. The spicy and stubbornly shaped condiments is inextricably...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2008 1

GZ Art+Design Spots 2008 1

Practical Experience Counts     What seems practically impossible in Germany is no problem at all in England. Here, applicants can apply...
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Metalsmith ’85 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’85 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases the various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1985 Fall issue of...
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High-Tech Manufactory Teno

High-Tech Manufactory Teno

The Pforzheim-based jewelry and watch manufactory TeNo unites traditional crafts virtues with state of the art CNC technology. Designers, craftsmen...
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Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio

Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio

The following text was written by Vannoccio Biringuccio, an Italian master craftsman in smelting and metalworking, born in Siena in...
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Dyslexia: Tool or Trial

Dyslexia: Tool or Trial

I have long suspected that I have a great deal of "dyslexic" company in the arts. As more and more...
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Forum for Unique Silver Objects

Forum for Unique Silver Objects

For the second time, inhorgenta europe 2007 is presenting to its specialist visitors a special show by international silversmiths at...
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Fritz Maierhofer: Message on the Issues

Fritz Maierhofer: Message on the Issues

Vienna-based jewelry designer Fritz Maierhofer is an important pioneer of modern individualized jewelry. As a protagonist of a new style...
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Laser Repair: Emerald and Diamond Bracelet

Laser Repair: Emerald and Diamond Bracelet

This article by Steve Satow describes the procedure for repairing an emerald and diamond bracelet using laser technology. Top view...
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Settin’ Pretty

Settin’ Pretty

Ask any experienced jeweler, and they’ll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to...
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Missouri State University: Metal Under Glass

Missouri State University: Metal Under Glass

The recent exhibition, “Metal Under Glass,” at the Southwest Missouri State University, exemplifies some of the ways in which studio...
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Stuart Devlin Retrospective Exhibition

Stuart Devlin Retrospective Exhibition

Stuart Devlin's exhibition offered the viewer a feast, a visit to an Aladdin's cave. The exhibition celebrated 25 years of...
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Creating a 950 Palladium and Diamond Ring

Creating a 950 Palladium and Diamond Ring

This ring design provides an excellent example for gemstone setting and working characteristics of 950 palladium. The superior white color...
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Learning Through Jewelry

Learning Through Jewelry

Gijs Bakker's life is inextricably intertwined with that of Emmy van Leersum (1930-1984), but his work has taken an independent...
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Lloyd E Herman

Lloyd E Herman

While managing the renovation of the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, Lloyd Herman had a vision. In an independent proposal...
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Ecological Jewelry Design

Ecological Jewelry Design

At a time when Paris is turning to a ‘Vélib’ scheme (bikes made available for use in the city) and...
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Temple of the Sacred Heart

Temple of the Sacred Heart

Sometimes a design becomes more than the sum of its parts. Designer Cristopher Olson and master jeweler Paul Schaaf of...
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Hungarian Enamel Symposiums

Hungarian Enamel Symposiums

Hungarian Enamel Symposiums The International Enamel Studio, open throughout the year, provides the possibility of experimenting and studying for all...
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Ornamenta 1 : International Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry

Ornamenta 1 : International Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry

This article is an overview  and contain details for Ornamenta 1:  International Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry held on September 30...
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Experiment Shortcuts

Experiment Shortcuts

Over the years, I have been experimenting to find ways of combining techniques so as to save firing time. Because...
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San Diego Enamel Guild Exhibition

San Diego Enamel Guild Exhibition

This past summer, I received notification that several pieces of my work had been accepted into the San Diego Enamel...
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A Message in Different Dimensions

A Message in Different Dimensions

“Look, touch, wear”; the thought is somehow fascinating. The borders between sculpture and jewelry are transient. Many artists also work...
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Metalsmith 1995 Exhibition

Metalsmith 1995 Exhibition

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the 1995 Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Sandra Bonazoli, Craig...
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Successful Artists Collaboration

Successful Artists Collaboration

When Theo Janson and Vanessa Compton moved into the winding basement studio space on Toronto's Markham Street in May 1978,...
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Novell Design Studio

Novell Design Studio

At Novell Design Studio, efficiency, quality, and service get a jolt of passion You can hear the passion in Bruce...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 4

GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 4

Happy Birthday: 25 Years of the Goldsmiths’ Fair Ben Day Katharina Vones Malcolm Betts David Goodwin Regina Aradesian   For over...
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Production Jewelers: Design, Marketing and Business

Production Jewelers: Design, Marketing and Business

This is the fourth in a series of articles from Metalsmith about production jewelers: design, marketing and business. ************************* Business...
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Cybernetic Jewelry: A Systems Approach

Cybernetic Jewelry: A Systems Approach

We live in an age of rapid technological progress where the unthinkable becomes possible and the impossible becomes routine. Even...
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Fads and Fallacies: Post Modern Collection

Fads and Fallacies: Post Modern Collection

One of the heralded events in this year's ebb and flow of jewelry fashion was the arrival of the Cleto...
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Remembering Lee Marshall, 1935-2017

Remembering Lee Marshall, 1935-2017

Founder of both Bonny Doon Engineering and Knew Concepts, Lee Marshall—who passed away June 25 at the age of 81...
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Edenta Swiss Quality

Edenta Swiss Quality

This specialist company has brought out a catalogue, tailor made for the jewelry and tool industry. It includes one of...
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The State of Metalsmithing and Jewelry

This article is a continuing dialogue on the State of Metalsmithing and Jewelry by Donald Friedlich and Judith Mitchell with ...
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Klaus Loose: For the Love of Metal

Klaus Loose: For the Love of Metal

The hammer falls powerfully on to the red, glowing iron. Sparks fly. Sunny the mare nervously whips its tail. The...
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A Conversation with John Marshall

A Conversation with John Marshall

John Marshall was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1936. After serving in the Armed Forces and doing construction work, Marshall...
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The Value of Ideas on Metalsmith/Jeweler’s Repertoire

This essay originated as a presentation at the Society of North American Goldsmiths’ conference in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1986. It...
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Diana Porter: To Make Something Change

Diana Porter: To Make Something Change

Diana Porter: “I love all of it – my beautiful spacious shop in the center of Bristol with our workshop...
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Michael David Sturlin Crochets with Gold

Michael David Sturlin Crochets with Gold

This crocheted necklace is created by weaving interlocking loops of 18k gold wire into a chain, using a needle. Because...
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Metalsmith ’90 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’90 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1990 Fall issue of the...
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Funk Art Jewelry

Funk Art Jewelry

In Objects: USA, the chapter on jewelry bears witness to the hallowed names of modern history. The collective effort of...
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Online Purchases on Gemstones

Online Purchases on Gemstones

Not so long ago, it was considered impossible that any product, let alone high-end jewelry and gemstones, could be sold...
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Adel Chefridi: Homage

Adel Chefridi: Homage

We’re all nostalgic for something. Usually, it’s reminiscence from our childhood, as in Adel Chefridi’s case. Chefridi, owner of Adel...
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The Anatomy of Ornamenta 1

The Anatomy of Ornamenta 1

In this article, Marjan Unger describes what Ornamenta 1 means and is all about. It contains information when and how...
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Creative Reorientation From Poland

Creative Reorientation From Poland

Design is becoming more important in Poland. Jewelry isn’t yet playing a starring role, but it is also one of...
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Metalsmith ’97 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’97 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1997 Fall issue of the...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 3

GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 3

Fall Trade Shows - Ordering for the Christmas Period Jewelers, goldsmiths and specialist retailers are ordering on increasingly short notice....
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The Football World Championship

The Football World Championship

Help!!! The football world championship is coming to Germany. Ahead of the world championships, there’s a flood of products inundating...
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TeNo: Emotion Meets Coolness

TeNo: Emotion Meets Coolness

The present is lively. This becomes particularly apparent during a meeting with the managing director of one of the most...
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Final Projects at International Schools of Design

Final Projects at International Schools of Design

Information and limitless communication calls for an exchange of ideas and opinions above and beyond political borders and cultural spheres...
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Aurum The Symbol of Gold

Aurum The Symbol of Gold

Its name has been familiar for 20 years now: Ilona Stepping founded the gallery “aurum” in 1982 in the Sachsenhausen...
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Sascha Brastoff and His Talents

Sascha Brastoff and His Talents

Sascha Brastoff was known for his talent and ability in many fields of art, both performing and visual, both fine...
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Award-winning artist Karen Jablonski

Award-winning artist Karen Jablonski

Karen Jablonski is an award-winning artist from Monticello, Georgia, who works in the medium of painting enamel, among other media....
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Donald Friedlich: The Visual Articulations

Donald Friedlich: The Visual Articulations

Traveling down Stony Acre Drive in Cranston, Rhode Island, one cannot help but wonder at the use of this particular...
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Nanz Aalund: A Helping Hand

Nanz Aalund’s career has been far-ranging. An award-winning jewelry artist based in Poulsbo, Washington, she’s taught jewelry and metals classes...
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Al Pine: Conceptual Exploration

Al Pine: Conceptual Exploration

Al Pine has been a fixture at Cal State Long Beach for over 25 years, where he teaches with Dieter...
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GZ Art+Design 2004 Spots

GZ Art+Design 2004 Spots

I.H.M. 2004 with Shining Jewels The International Crafts Fair in Munich (March, 4 to 10, 2004) will focus this year...
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Virtuoso Symposium Exhibition

Virtuoso Symposium Exhibition

It is possible to practice medicine and do it very successfully and happily without much familiarity with or interest in...
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Etienne Perret Explores Gem Ceramic

Etienne Perret Explores Gem Ceramic

It's harder than steel, more durable than enamel, can be worn for years without scratching, and costs less than half...
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6 Ingredients for Bestselling Jewelry Designs

To be successful, jewelry designers need more than just great designs - they need the right blend of six key...
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Galerie Jocelyne Gobeil

Galerie Jocelyne Gobeil

Galerie Jocelyne Gobeil, which opened in early 1987, is the only gallery in Canada devoted exclusively to the exhibition and...
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Albert Paley

Albert Paley

An exhibit of this new work was mounted last spring at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts,...
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The Women’s Golden Jewels

The Women’s Golden Jewels

The magnificent hair of the Loreley on the Rhine is possibly the most famous in the world, often the subject...
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The Marsh Foundation

The Marsh Foundation

Two years ago, a participant in one of my workshops asked me if I would consider teaching a two-day enamel...
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Art College AR.CO

Art College AR.CO

For over 25 years now, the jewelry class at the Art College “AR.CO” in Lisbon, Portugal, has analyzed to what...
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Alternative Metalsmith Pat Flynn

Alternative Metalsmith Pat Flynn

There is something of the alchemist's magic in Pat Flynn. Like those artful wizards of long ago, he changes common...
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Michael David Sturlin’s Two Strand Crocheted Chain

Michael David Sturlin’s Two Strand Crocheted Chain

With the quartz as the central focal point of the "Reflecting Pond Necklace," Sturlin had to design a chain that...
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Metalsmith 1994 Exhibition

Metalsmith 1994 Exhibition

This article showcases various exhibitions  published in the 1994 Exhibition issue of the Metalsmith Magazine. This features Claire Sanford, Wright...
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Swiss Team Player

Swiss Team Player

The combination of Swiss precision and a cosmopolitan approach in terms of design are the decisive aspects in the success...
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Non-Dogmatic Approach: Imagine the Opposite

Non-Dogmatic Approach: Imagine the Opposite

What an anniversary celebration: in 2008, the Munich Academy of Fine Arts celebrates its 200 year anniversary. The class for...
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Jacek Ostrowski Introduces a New Design

Jacek Ostrowski Introduces a New Design

Jacek Ostrowski is a graduate of the Faculty for Design at the Technical College in Koszalin (Poland). He created his...
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Carpenter Enamel Foundation Workshops

Carpenter Enamel Foundation Workshops

Joe Spencer Bead Workshop On November 17, 2007, Joseph Spencer taught one of the best workshops we have seen. There...
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Marge Widmar Retrospective

Marge Widmar Retrospective

A Retrospective exhibition of the work of Marge Widmar, an artist from Westlake, Ohio, was held at the Beth K....
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Gemstone Cutting Creates Freedom for Design

Gemstone Cutting Creates Freedom for Design

Difficult times are often good times for the unusual. The higher the hurdle that must be overcome to make clients...
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Metalsmith ’96 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’96 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1996 Fall issue of the...
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Jewelry Designs: Athena Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Athena Pendant

This gemstone-encrusted shield is named in honor of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare who was worshiped as...
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Noël Yovovich – Seeing Titanium

Noël Yovovich – Seeing Titanium

Noel Yovovich discovered titanium in her first year as a jewelry artist. "A friend of mine was working with it...
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Book Review – Two New European Jewelry Books

Book Review – Two New European Jewelry Books

Two new European jewelry books crossed my desk this summer. One offered an uneven survey of jewelry concepts and the...
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Louis Mueller: Synergistic Games

Louis Mueller: Synergistic Games

The confidential exploits of self-deception is the title of one of Louis Mueller's recent six-foot-high wall pieces. This paradoxical attitude...
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Collecting for the Future

Collecting for the Future

Collecting for the Future “I don’t believe any curator who collects in Contemporary Art doesn’t think of icons. I couldn’t...
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Practical Course Practical Goldsmith

The twelve-volume “Practical Goldsmith” series offers an entirely new means of imparting knowledge and skills in a goldsmith’s various work...
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Making a Pearl and Diamond Ring

Making a Pearl and Diamond Ring

This illustration is of a 14-karat white gold ring for three cultured freshwater pearls and two small accent diamonds. After...
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MJSA Custom Jeweler – Brenda Smith

MJSA Custom Jeweler – Brenda Smith

An Uncustomary Request - Creative freedom and some unusual pearls helped create an award-winning necklace by Brenda Smith. Let’s say...
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2017 Pantone’s Top 10 Colors for Fall

2017 Pantone’s Top 10 Colors for Fall

Pantone’s picks are comforting, enveloping, and easy to wear. Warm. Comforting. Effortless. These are just a few of the words...
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Ruth Robinson: Precious Findings

Ruth Robinson: Precious Findings

Ruth Robinson has an unusual and special position among the grand dames of contemporary jewelry art. The encounters with the...
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Hans Jaenisch: Jewelry Shows its Colors

Hans Jaenisch: Jewelry Shows its Colors

“Colors are vitamins for the human soul”, claimed the German painter Professor Hans Jaenisch. In saying this, he emphasized the...
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The Work of Paul McClure

The Work of Paul McClure

Mounted in Paul McClure's silver pendant, Alveoli, are two pearls taken from a necklace his mother left him when she...
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The Enamelware of Sean Alton

The Enamelware of Sean Alton

My affair with precious metals began while working with my father a talented jeweler who worked with spring movement. He...
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Metalsmith ’91 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’91 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1991 Spring issue of the...
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The Cliche of Modern Art Appreciation

As art critic Lucy Lippard has observed: “The ‘ugly’ turning ‘beautiful’ in the public eye through a process of familiarity...
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The Once and Future Sapphire

The Once and Future Sapphire

Andranondambo countryside, southern Madagascar, 1994 Imagine a gently hilled plain, covered with a beautiful baobab forest, surrounded by an arc...
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10th International Biennel of Enamel

10th International Biennel of Enamel

While Limoges, France was celebrating its 200th anniversary as the city of the "Arts of Fire" this year, July and...
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The Founding Masters Exhibit

The Founding Masters Exhibit

The following is an excerpt from the text of the catalog of "The Founding Masters Exhibit", held at the Schick...
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Metalsmith ’89 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’89 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1989 Spring issue of the...
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Barbara Schulte-Hengesbach: Playful Elements

Barbara Schulte-Hengesbach: Playful Elements

The name Barbara Schulte-Hengesbach stands for a concise concept that conveys a message without intricacy or ornament. The goldsmith, jewelry...
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Klaus Dupont: Joyous Compositions

Klaus Dupont: Joyous Compositions

The artist Klaus Dupont transforms old finds into new objects – seldom have these old pieces been more cheerfully staged...
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CAD/CAM: Modeling Project in JewelSpace

CAD/CAM: Modeling Project in JewelSpace

CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing) is bringing a new efficiency and profitability to the jewelry workplace. Who is better...
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Van LeBus: Folk Artist

Van LeBus: Folk Artist

Naive, primitive, anonymous, magical are characteristics that often accompany our image of the folk artist. In reality, he is an...
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Tom Markusen: Holloware Maker with Integrity

Tom Markusen: Holloware Maker with Integrity

It may surprise some, judging from Tom Markusen studio output, that the production objects are handmade, without the use of...
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East Meets West

East Meets West

East meets west – the cultural mixture of eastern and western influences on jewelry, fashion, furnishings and architecture is no...
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Metalsmith ’94 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’94 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1994 Spring issue of the...
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Bruna Hauert: For the Love of the Absurd

Bruna Hauert: For the Love of the Absurd

She is just as passionate about abstruse stories as she is about droll jewelry. Bruna Hauert and “Friends of Carlotta”,...
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Online Enamel Art Gallery

Online Enamel Art Gallery

Glass on Metal Magazine is excited to announce the development of an online enamel art gallery, located on the internet...
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Objects in Space: Future Arena for Silversmiths

Objects in Space: Future Arena for Silversmiths

An object in space is exactly what the name implies, namely one which by design has left the company of...
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Susan Kingsley: Enlightened Embranglements

Susan Kingsley: Enlightened Embranglements

Susan Kingsley's work has involved a long, determined struggle with the role of a woman artist in the field of...
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John Iversen: Carved Color

John Iversen: Carved Color

Joseph Albers, a colorist par excellence, always said that in visual perception a color is almost never seen as it...
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Finding Inspiration with Marcia Budet

Finding Inspiration with Marcia Budet

Marcia Budet didn’t set out to be a jewelry designer. Although she grew up collecting rocks, crystals, and hematites, she...
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Harriete Estel Berman

Harriete Estel Berman

Progress, in its 19th-century understanding as industrial innovation, has rarely been a friend of women. Some may even say it’s...
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Art and Technics: Brooch Pin

Art and Technics: Brooch Pin

Often the paramount achievement of technical mastery is the ability to “remain invisible.” The virtuoso violinist is heralded less for...
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Intergem 2007 Gemstones in All Colors

Intergem 2007 Gemstones in All Colors

Good news for the gemstone sector: color is a triumph again – the trend for genuine crystals continues. Ever more...
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Jewelry Fun

Jewelry Fun

Can you trust what you see? Gemstones perched on plastic rings, salamanders are wrapped around Tahiti cultured pearls. Rings and...
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The Blossoms’ Magic

The Blossoms’ Magic

A flower in your hair is perhaps the most spontaneous and cheerful moment of decorating. You can find them as...
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Hall C2: A Flood of Material and Purist Calm

Hall C2: A Flood of Material and Purist Calm

C2 – when the name of a fair hall is automatically associated with electrifying innovation and ground-breaking design, it can...
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Ancient Inspirations: Contemporary Interpretations

When I first heard about the craft show "Ancient Inspirations: Contemporary Interpretations," I was impressed. The press information packet that...
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The Enamelware of Ben Caldwell

The Enamelware of Ben Caldwell

Ben Caldwell is a painter, copper and silver smith, musical instrument builder, and inventor. He trained at the Studio School...
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Recent Sightings: Metal Book Art

Recent Sightings: Metal Book Art

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named "Recent Sightings" and here Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the...
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Creative Jewelry in Florence

Creative Jewelry in Florence

Creative Jewelry in Florence It’s hard to believe, but true: in Italy, where more than in almost any other country...
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The Enamelware of Leila Tai

The Enamelware of Leila Tai

Jewelry artist Leila Tai is renowned for her extraordinary one-of-a-kind pieces celebrating perfection in nature and for her masterful use...
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Venezuelan Enamel History and Projection

Venezuelan Enamel History and Projection

Among the representatives of this speciality who dedicated their lives to the enamel, is the author of this article. She...
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Metalsmith ’95 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’95 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1995 Spring issue of the...
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Vivian Kline Retrospective Exhibition

Vivian Kline Retrospective Exhibition

Vivian's retrospective exhibition was a grand tribute to a fine lady who has been extremely busy during the past fifty...
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Master Metalsmith Dorothy Sturm

Master Metalsmith Dorothy Sturm

Entering the enameling studio, one is struck by its openness. Light fills the space. Shelves are lined with organic vessel...
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The Concept of Preciousness

The Concept of Preciousness

The very word PRECIOUS, the concept of PRECIOUSNESS is anathema to most contemporary artists, especially painters and sculptors, and perhaps...
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Master Metalsmith Robert Montgomery

Master Metalsmith Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery surrounds himself in a silent optimism that does not simply ignore adversity, but rises above it. His generous...
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Crystalline Beauties for Designers

Crystalline Beauties for Designers

Nature spread gemstones that are suitable for jewelry purposes around the globe with extreme thrift. In most cases, mining and...
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Klaus Fessmann Draws Delicate Sounds

Klaus Fessmann Draws Delicate Sounds

Stones have a soul. For Klaus Fessmann, they are not inanimate material, but individuals that under a skilled hand can...
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Metalsmith ’92 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’92 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1992 Fall issue of the...
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Perlen Yukie: Cooperate Instead of Copy

Perlen Yukie: Cooperate Instead of Copy

The companies Perlen Yukie and Innopoint are joining forces: one supplies the pearls, the other produces the necklaces – and...
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Creative Thinking in the Arts

An Assessment of a Lecture Series and Panel Discussion at the Program in Artisanry of the Swain School of Design....
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Niessing: Gold Colors Specialist

Niessing: Gold Colors Specialist

The jewelry manufactory Niessing started with the development of very different colored gold alloys as early as 1984. Since then...
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White Treasure with Rarity Value

White Treasure with Rarity Value

Platinum, in many regards an extraordinary precious metal, was given its name by Spanish conquistadors in about 1580: “platina,” which...
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Unique Designs Capturing the Complexity of a Gemstone

Unique Designs Capturing the Complexity of a Gemstone

Ask three accomplished designers to create around a gemstone carved by one talented lapidary and what do you get? Three...
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The Jewelry of Vivienne Jones

The Jewelry of Vivienne Jones

"I make jewelry the way I draw," says Vivienne Jones. "That's one of the great thins about metal, you can...
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Projects of Exploration: Performance and Beyond

Projects of Exploration: Performance and Beyond

This is the second in a series of projects for students, created to provide a forum in Metalsmith for provocative...
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Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins

The fine and fascinating enamel plaque shown here [Pic. 1] is a copy in enamels after a painting by the...
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Bill Ruth and Susan Mahlstedt

Bill Ruth and Susan Mahlstedt

So much of contemporary culture is filled with apropriations, reconstructions, and fragmented borrowings from our past that that past seems...
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Designing Unique Jewelry

Designing Unique Jewelry

More and more jewelers are designing unique jewelry pieces for their clientele. One reason is the custom jewelry market is...
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The Enamelware of John Smith

The Enamelware of John Smith

This article showcases the selected works from the enamelist John Smith exhibition at Kaskaskia college. The exhibition took place March...
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Recent Sightings: Seduce Me

Recent Sightings: Seduce Me

Seduce Me Recent thinking about jewelry has looked at the field in two ways: as an idea and as a...
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Metalsmith ’92 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’92 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the [year] [season] issue of the...
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Susanne Hammer: New Perspectives for Jewelry

Susanne Hammer: New Perspectives for Jewelry

Susanne Hammer’s pieces are neither an attractive means of self-adornment, nor a status symbol. They throw traditional jewelry conventions into...
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The Key to Happiness

The Key to Happiness

People have attempted to enter into a pact with the occult forces of nature for thousands of years in order...
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Cool Hunting in the Jewelry World

One of my roles for the last few years has been that of an innovation awards judge for MJSA. This...
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June Schwarcz: The Malleable Vessel

June Schwarcz: The Malleable Vessel

Vessel and vesselmaking come the closet to establishing a universal language form; encompassing ceramic pots, holloware, fiber baskets, glass and...
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Adam Neeley – Alluring Curves

Adam Neeley – Alluring Curves

Adam Neeley Adam Neeley Fine Art Jewelry Laguna Beach, California First Place, Laser Distinction Look back over the list of...
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Expecting the Unexpected

Expecting the Unexpected

Expecting the Unexpected As this century draws to a close, the position of craft within the fine arts continues to...
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Gayle Saunders Exhibition

Gayle Saunders Exhibition

Of the various schools of thought about design, "less is more" has been one of the most enduring of the...
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Metalsmith ’89 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’89 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1989 Summer issue of the...
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Enameled Glass Bowls

Enameled Glass Bowls

It was during one of my exhibitions in Den Haag, Netherlands, that a visitor came up to me to ask...
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2007 Complex Individualism

2007 Complex Individualism

True, predicting the color of fashion is not an exact science like meteorology. But since the mid-1970s, professional color forecasters...
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The Limitless Diversity of Precious Stones

The Limitless Diversity of Precious Stones

The trademark of the company Leyser Edelsteine based in Idar-Oberstein in Germany is tourmaline. It is iconic for the entire...
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Lively Metal Surfaces

Lively Metal Surfaces

Since human beings first started transforming precious metals into jewelry, they have focused on ways of designing the surfaces. In...
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Ross Palmer Beecher

Ross Palmer Beecher

Ross Palmer Beecher The Yankee qualities Ross Palmer Beecher mentions in discussing her art – thriftiness, tradition, waste not/want not...
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Galleries: The Vo Galerie

Galleries: The Vo Galerie

This is the first in a series on galleries that specialize in jewelry and metalwork. The Vo Galerie is a...
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Ion Ionescu’s Mon Cheerie Ring

Ion Ionescu’s Mon Cheerie Ring

Mon Cheerie By Ion Ionescu. Winner. First Place, Evening Wear. 2012 AGTA Spectrum Awards. You could argue that a little...
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Metalsmith ’90 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’90 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1990 Winter issue of the...
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Inhorgenta Europe: A Breath of Fresh Air

Inhorgenta Europe: A Breath of Fresh Air

Inhorgenta Europe (February 15 to 18, 2008), held in Munich, has become one of the most important springboards for young...
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The Giebichenstein Castle

The Giebichenstein Castle

As early as during the acceptance exams, preferred creative people are selected not only for their artistic talent, but also...
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Assembled Mounting for Customized Jewelry

Assembled Mounting for Customized Jewelry

Often custom made jewelry can be assembled from stock findings, creating jewelry with a hand-fabricated look in a fraction of...
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Metalsmith ’87 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’87 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1987 Winter issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’96 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’96 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1996 Spring issue of the...
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Joan Michlin: Current Metalsmithing

Joan Michlin: Current Metalsmithing

Celebrating its move to a new location, Creative Metalsmiths featured the slick art jewelry of Joan Michlin. Her futuristic style...
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Production Jewelers: How They Survive

Production Jewelers: How They Survive

From time to time, Metalsmith will locus a series of articles on a particular aspect of jewelers. Beginning in this...
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CAD/CAM and Expertise of David Nytch

CAD/CAM and Expertise of David Nytch

David Nytch, proprietor of West ' Co. an independently owned jewelry store in Webster, NY is changing the way customers...
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Proposing a Burden for Jewelry

Proposing a Burden for Jewelry

“. . . he would end his days . . . at liberty except for an iron ring round his...
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The Limbic System Part 1

The Limbic System Part 1

Platinum or white gold? Dynamics or tradition? Jewelry buyers are the factors that make your company strong or weak and...
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Marie van den Hout: Art Visualizes Thought Processes

Marie van den Hout: Art Visualizes Thought Processes

For Marie van den Hout, renowned owner of the Gallery Marzee, there is quite simply no doubt: Jewelry satisfies all...
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Jewels Made of Paper Bags

Jewels Made of Paper Bags

For a long time now in artisan jewelry work, all that glitters is not gold. Precious metals, diamonds, and pearls...
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Philip Guston: Jewelry Meditating Jewelry

Philip Guston: Jewelry Meditating Jewelry

In 1970 Philip Guston exhibited paintings with estranged images of the Ku Klux Klan, old shoes, pink cities, and incongruous...
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Charlotte Meyer

Charlotte Meyer

Charlotte Meyer’s main body of work resulted from her study of the red light district of Amsterdam. Her night-time forays...
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Belle and Roger Kuhn: New Works

Belle and Roger Kuhn: New Works

This article is a review on the New Works Exhibition by Belle and Roger Kuhn held at the Plum Gallery,...
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Gallery Marzee: Scene for Contemporary Jewelry

Gallery Marzee: Scene for Contemporary Jewelry

The gallery-owner Marie-José van den Hout has focused on contemporary jewelry art in her gallery in Nijmegen in Holland for...
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Intellectual Property: Protection and Rights for Designers

Intellectual Property: Protection and Rights for Designers

In the jewelry industry, plagiarizing intellectual property is unfortunately still seen as a minor misdemeanor. But regardless: designers can draw...
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Wolfgang Gessl: Silver Diction

Wolfgang Gessl: Silver Diction

There are no limits to what we can learn from one material. And I feel that I still have a...
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Jonathan Bonner: Whimsy and Vision

Jonathan Bonner: Whimsy and Vision

Jonathan Bonner is a pleasant young man with a quick smile and an easygoing manner. If you saw him in...
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Art Toys for Adult Toddlers

Art Toys for Adult Toddlers

One can get tired of it all and want to be entertained, but the media outlets for distraction can look...
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Genevieve Yang – Lunar Cycle Necklace

Genevieve Yang – Lunar Cycle Necklace

They say inspiration strikes when you least expect it. For designer Genevieve Yang of Santa Rosa, California, the inspiration for...
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AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Winners Announced

AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Winners Announced

People & Places AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Winners Announced Honoring excellence in colored gemstone jewelry design, the American Gem...
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Exhibition in Print: Metalsmiths Win The West

Exhibition in Print: Metalsmiths Win The West

Our "notice" calling all metalsmiths guilty of western influences to turn in photographs of their work may have led some...
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Changing Ring Widths and Saving Time

Changing Ring Widths and Saving Time

Heatsensitive gemstones must no longer be removed from their setting when changing a ring size. This provides the goldsmith with...
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New Danish Design

New Danish Design

This year, Denmark is celebrating its centennial anniversary as a design nation. Indeed, the country nestled between the North and...
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Heard in Basel

Heard in Basel

The World Watch and Jewellery Show in Basel, Switzerland — also known as Baselworld — closed with a record high...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 3

GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 3

Sign of Belief The competition New Traditional Jewellery is being held for the second time and is focusing this year...
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The Enigma of a Man Possessed

The Enigma of a Man Possessed

The unknown artist received this name as a result of the dramatic motifs that he interpreted into small, idiosyncratic sculptures...
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2018 Top Gem and Jewelry Trends

2018 Top Gem and Jewelry Trends

In addition to miles of aisles of beautiful finished jewelry on display, the JCK Las Vegas show offered attendees the...
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How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

This article, written by Dottie Wood, shares photos and step by step procedure on how to make a bas relief...
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Leila Tai – Plique-a-jour Delight

Leila Tai – Plique-a-jour Delight

Leila Tai of New York City will be the first person to tell you that in order to take on...
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Projects of Exploration: Visual Intricacy

Projects of Exploration: Visual Intricacy

This is the fourth in a series of projects for students, created to provide a forum in Metalsmith for provocative...
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Metalsmith ’87 Winter: International Exhibitions

Metalsmith ’87 Winter: International Exhibitions

This article showcases various international exhibitions and competitions in the form of collected exhibition reports published in the 1987 Summer ...
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Metalsmith ’92 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’92 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1992 Winter issue of the...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 1

GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 1

Fly now! International jewelry makers should note this date. From August 6-12, 2007 Ruudt Peters helds this years' jewelry course...
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Human Touch

Human Touch

Clay spread by hand, bearing traces of fingerprints and diffuse structures in its moistness, dries to form a sculpted surface...
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Artists of the Sun

Artists of the Sun

Inspiration The leisurely lifestyle that artists such as Picasso or Matisse convey in their sun-drenched, love-filled paintings. The atmosphere created...
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Komelia Hongja Okim Exhibition

Komelia Hongja Okim Exhibition

Translated into English, Korea means "chosen." Komelia Hongja Okim, a native of Korea, has faced a great many consequential choices...
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Award Winning Ring by Ryan Roberts

He just couldn't help himself. When Ryan Roberts sat down to create a piece to showcase a 3.46 spessartite garnet...
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Metalsmith ’89 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’89 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1989 Winter issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’88 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’88 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1988 Winter issue of the...
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Platinum Bridal Jewelry

If you have never manufactured with platinum and you think that you are ready, if you manufacture with platinum, but...
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Eastern Europe, Sorrow

Eastern Europe, Sorrow

*On the hard ground of Birkenau a tiny button sparkles, reflecting the unshed tears in my eye. I kneel down...
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Austrian Jewelers Exhibition

Austrian Jewelers Exhibition

All five artists in this 5 Austrian Jewelers show were trained at the Hochschüle für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. While...
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Process Oriented Metal Education

Art school is in some ways a difficult place to learn to be a metalsmith. Traditionally, it took industry from...
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Modes of Working with Jewelry

This short paper offers a set of names to describe how the jewellery metals field is made up in terms...
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Historic Kitsch

Historic Kitsch

The unfettered joy of an eccentric mix of styles from historical epochs - with no consideration of rules of combination...
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Mother Nature In Her Inexhaustible

Mother Nature In Her Inexhaustible

The creative potency of international designers, who will present their latest work during this year’s inhorgenta europe, apparently knows no...
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Ricardo Basta – Top Flight

Ricardo Basta – Top Flight

Ricardo Basta Ricardo Basta Fine Jewelry Los Angeles First Place, CAD/CAM Distinction Ricardo Basta believes in melding traditional jewelry-making techniques...
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The Signet Ring as Bearer of Symbols

The Signet Ring as Bearer of Symbols

Athene, the Holy St. Peter with mustache... Noble figures were portrayed on the heads of the ring as an honor....
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German Made

German Made

Precision, mechanics and watch making tradition – we are not speaking of watches from Switzerland, but from Germany. Its rich...
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Mac McCall: Wizard of Ambiguity

Mac McCall: Wizard of Ambiguity

Mac McCall is a Western shaman, or, as Elizabeth Sasser claims, a wizard of ambiguity. In this focus, she offers...
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Harlan Butt: Garden Anagogies

Harlan Butt: Garden Anagogies

Strictly speaking, the metalworker's contribution to the Japanese tea ceremony is confined primarily to the teakettle. This accoutrement traditionally has...
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TeNo de luxx: What’s Important

TeNo de luxx: What’s Important

Luxury is in no way defined by sparkling items of jewelry, overburdened with jewels or in pompous designs. Real luxury...
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Design Material Alternatives

Expanding the boundaries of conventional jewelry design through the use of unusual materials -- Titanium, Niobium, Copper, Metal clay, Acrylic,...
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White Magic

White Magic

It is half a century ago that the first South Sea pearl farm was founded in Northern Australia. And the...
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Notable Exhibitions

Notable Exhibitions

The Fine Art of the Tin Can OXOXO Gallery Baltimore, MD April 12 – May 31, 1996 Found object jewelry...
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Making Custom-Designed Diamond and Tourmaline Earrings

Making Custom-Designed Diamond and Tourmaline Earrings

The customer has selected the pair of earrings shown the rough sketch. The top portion is cast, the bottom piece...
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Color Stories Designing Around a Dynamic Opal

Color Stories Designing Around a Dynamic Opal

'I show you an opal. You show me a design.' That was the deal I struck with the three willing...
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Beneath Surface and Form

Beneath Surface and Form

Lynne Hull is a vessel maker as well as a teacher, a jeweler, and a founding member of the Seattle...
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Girl Power Among Young Designers

Girl Power Among Young Designers

Ten German jewelry designers are making a name for themselves by means of the wealth of innovative ideas and sheer...
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1985 SNAG Conference Review

The statement below could well have been made by many individuals upon reflection on their friends and colleagues. But in...
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Gabor Forgo

Gabor Forgo

How did you become involved in enameling? Observing the World. 21x21 cm. Wall panel, sgrafitto technique. 1991. This happened accidentally....
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Janice Kluge: Metalwork and Sculpture

Janice Kluge: Metalwork and Sculpture

Janice Kluge's exhibition of metalwork and sculpture at the Birmingham Museum of Art was small in scale but rich in...
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The Jewelry of Tamara Sergijenko

The Jewelry of Tamara Sergijenko

What fun for me to reminisce about our early friendship: Tamara Sergijenko from Tallin, Estonia and I from middle America!...
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CAD Craft In Ron Litolff’s Ring

CAD Craft In Ron Litolff’s Ring

To create a new ring to showcase the beauty of a customer's sentimental diamonds, Knoxville, Tennesseebased jeweler Ron Litolff of...
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Best of Foldforming Competition

Best of Foldforming Competition

Winners of the inaugural Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition were announced on Aug 6, 2012 at the 5th Annual Charles Lewton-Brain Conference...
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Alraune Lifestyle: Cutting Edge of Time

Alraune Lifestyle: Cutting Edge of Time

Alraune Lifestyle does not simply follow fashion trends. The brand name is always slightly ahead of time and is numbered...
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Jewelry Designs: Titan Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Titan Pendant

Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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Metalwork: A National Invitational Exhibition

Metalwork: A National Invitational Exhibition

This show provided an overview of some of the new directions and esthetic concerns of metalsmiths in the 1980s. Curated...
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Susan Pietzsch: Simply Scrumptious

Susan Pietzsch: Simply Scrumptious

Strings of sweets, chocolate bars set in porcelain and bras made from colorful chocolate sweets – the diversity of the...
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Painting with Fire

Painting with Fire

In 1950 Kalman Kubinyi, an enormously talented and highly versatile artist, together with his wife, the prominent Cleveland-based enamelist Doris...
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Metalsmith ’89 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’89 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1989 Fall issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’94 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’94 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1994 Fall issue of the...
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Allgemeine Gold in Pforzheim

Allgemeine Gold in Pforzheim

The Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt AG, founded in Pforzheim in 1891, is among the leading European firms in the precious...
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The Project Silver Summer Gallery

The Project Silver Summer Gallery

For the third time, visitors to the Inhorgenta 2004 in Munich will be pleased at the very different kind of...
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Goethe: Strong Alliances in Design

Goethe: Strong Alliances in Design

“It is not good for people to be alone, particularly not to work alone. Rather, they need participation and stimulation...
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Curtis LaFollette Exhibition

Curtis LaFollette Exhibition

From the very cover of the announcement brochure, one sensed the struggles and conflicts represented in the work in this...
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Award Winning Cufflinks by Bill Holman

Award Winning Cufflinks by Bill Holman

These cufflinks designed by Bill Holman were award winners in the AGTA 2004 Spectrum design competition. They are 18-karat yellow...
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Galleries: Concepts Gallery

Galleries: Concepts Gallery

"American jewelry has come into its own," says Concepts Gallery owner Doug Steakley. "lt has really matured. . . My...
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Rivoir Manufactory: La Beaute Moderne

Rivoir Manufactory: La Beaute Moderne

50 years of tradition and a modern interpretation of classic jewelry are not necessarily contradictions. The collection from the Rivoir...
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Metalsmith ’97 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’97 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1997 Winter issue of the...
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Deborah Aguado: Use of Image and Enigma in Jewelry

Deborah Aguado: Use of Image and Enigma in Jewelry

Stone, metal and space compose the careful balance in Deborah Aguado's work. Her first geometric formalisms constructed in metal were...
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Andrzej Boss: A Polish Top Designer

Andrzej Boss: A Polish Top Designer

Andrzej Boss (47) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Polamd, where he runs the Goldsmithing...
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Made in the USA 2017

Made in the USA 2017

MADE IN THE USA: Where We Stand is an update on the jewelry industry’s efforts to promote homegrown products. It...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 2

GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 2

Haute Couture Deluxe Any woman wearing this magnificent cocktail dress doesn't need any other jewelry. After the luxury pearl brand...
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The National Drawing Academy: The Force of Talents

The National Drawing Academy: The Force of Talents

The National Drawing Academy in Hanau was founded as early as 1772. It is one of Germany’s oldest education and...
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The State of the Jewelry Industry

Trends and challenges in 2017 By the time you’re reading this article, the 2016 presidential election will be over. And...
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Metalsmith ’96 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’96 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1996 Summer issue of the...
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A View from the Production Bench

A View from the Production Bench

The loudspeaker blares: "Ladies and gentleman, in this corner, we have BIG ART JEWELRY!" With huge armlets keeping his arms...
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The Legend Lives

The Legend Lives

You can hear them ticking in museums, they have enraptured watch-lovers for decades and at the moment of their inception...
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Getting to know Mark Schneider

Getting to know Mark Schneider

This article is an interview with jewelry designer Mark Schneider. Read on to get his insights and genius behind his...
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Changing Rules

Changing Rules

Let’s begin with the efforts to change the FTC regulations. Recently, the New York City–based Richline Group and the International...
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Marking Your Turf

Marking Your Turf

Given the competitive climate of the jewelry industry, copyrights and trademarks are important ways for manufacturers and retailers to set...
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Metalsmith ’95 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’95 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1995 Summer issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’94 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’94 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1994 Winter issue of the...
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Forging Modernist

Forging Modernist

“The only work that counts,” she added with her quick smile, “is, of course, that which affords the opportunity for...
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All That Glitters Exhibition

All That Glitters Exhibition

"All That Glitters," the first national competitive exhibition of fine art glass and jewelry in Arizona, featured the work of...
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Ryan Roberts’ First CAD Design

Ryan Roberts’ First CAD Design

When all sides of a dangle earring are beautiful, choosing the side to face front can be problematic. Ryan Roberts...
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Fads and Fallacies: Pocket Knives

Fads and Fallacies: Pocket Knives

The term fashion does not immediately bring to mind knives. But wait! The 1895 Montgomery Ward & Co. catalog offered...
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Egypt’s Sunken Treasures

Egypt’s Sunken Treasures

Underwater archaeology reigns supreme. Until now mainly disregarded as treasure seekers, modern methods have enabled diving researchers to delve into...
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Art and Technics: Language of Art

Art and Technics: Language of Art

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Barbara Heinrich: Casual Perfection

Barbara Heinrich: Casual Perfection

The textured surfaces of Barbara Heinrich's gold jewelry deceive with their simplicity. At first glance, they clearly appear to be...
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Bead Jewelry

Bead Jewelry

Google the words “bead jewelry,” and page after page of Web sites pop up, vying for attention. With the explosion...
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Functional Designs

Functional Designs

Designers showcase components as the focus of their designs When most folks think of findings, they’re likely to think of...
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Lois Etherington Betteridge

Lois Etherington Betteridge

Lois Etherington Betteridge Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa June-September, 1983 Yaneff Gallery, Toronto November, 1983 The silver objects of Lois...
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1985 SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design Competition

1985 SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design Competition

The Johnson Matthey/Society of North American Goldsmiths Platinum Jewelry Design Competition celebrates its third anniversary this year. The competition represents...
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A Tribute to Tony

A Tribute to Tony

Tony Papp - A Tribute Tony Papp and I met during our sophomore year at Parsons School of Design in...
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Art and Technics: Superstitious Beliefs

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Of Divine Blood

Of Divine Blood

Corals are precious treasures found in clear waters. This natural material has been used in jewelry making for thousands of...
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Scandinavian Design: A Myth is Unraveled

Scandinavian Design: A Myth is Unraveled

The message was a revolution. While the wounds of the Second World War were eased in Europe using conciliatory kitsch...
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Eva Kucerova

Eva Kucerova

In 2004, when I was preparing the 8th International Enamel Symposium in Erfurt, Germany (title : "SPIEGELUNGEN - REFLECTIONS") -...
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Barbara Nakae

Barbara Nakae

Barbara Nakae 1922 – 2006 Barbara Nakae of Newcastle, CA, born April 24, 1922, passed away peacefully in her sleep...
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Phillip Voetsch’s Jewelry Design Process

Phillip Voetsch’s Jewelry Design Process

Phillip Voetsch is an accomplished designer and master level bench jeweler, he began using 3D CAD/CAM technology 3 1/2 years...
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Metalsmith ’93 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’93 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1993 Fall issue of the...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2005 4

GZ Art+Design Spots 2005 4

Trade fair in Vicenza: Shapes of Jewelry According to the fashion gurus, jewelry manufacturers should focus on the immaterial value...
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Relationship Issues

Relationship Issues

Pekka Hirvonen, a Finnish goldsmith and jewelry designer, has been designing for Lapponia since 2002. Hirvonen worked there as a...
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Jenny Pohlman and Sabrina Knowles

Jenny Pohlman and Sabrina Knowles

Jenny Pohlman and Sabrina Knowles Heroic in scale, the prayer beads of Jenny Pohlman and Sabrina Knowles could be envisaged...
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1983 SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design Competition

1983 SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design Competition

This year Johnson Matthey Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of platinum group metals, in cooperation with the Society of North...
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Lin Stanionis: Chalices for Transubstanian

Lin Stanionis: Chalices for Transubstanian

The focus of Lin Stanionis' work for the last three years has been in exploring the implications inherent in the...
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Off the Centerline

Off the Centerline

Off the Centerline In every profession there are highly visible and energetic ambassadors. And then, there are those who act...
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The Test Market for Creative Ideas

The Test Market for Creative Ideas

The Forum Brand New – New Brand was given life five years ago at inhorgenta europe in Munich, while the...
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Jewelry in a New Costume

Jewelry in a New Costume

Experimentation with traditionally female handicrafts has playfully led to refreshingly new statements in jewelry. Interwoven with subtle hints, the particularly...
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The Written Word Remains

The Written Word Remains

What remains of the culture of a people? How can we formulate an image of the lives and thoughts of...
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The Orange Necklace by Chihiro Makio

The Orange Necklace by Chihiro Makio

One of the more difficult challenges Chihiro Makio of 314 Studio in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, faced when creating her Orange...
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Alana Clearlake: Limitless Possibilities

Alana Clearlake: Limitless Possibilities

"What's so good about enameling is that you can learn a new technique and then approach your work with a...
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Ellen Kochansky: Along the Way

Ellen Kochansky: Along the Way

For someone who began making jewelry in high school and who usually makes work no larger than two feet, working...
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Observations on Miniature Sculptures

Observations on Miniature Sculptures

When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, he modeled his narrative on fairy tales and used nonsense as a...
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Projects of Exploration: The Art and Science of Line

Projects of Exploration: The Art and Science of Line

This is the third in a series of projects for students, created to provide a forum in Metalsmith for provocative...
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Mark Jordan: Hero with a Thousand Eyes

Mark Jordan: Hero with a Thousand Eyes

The Transparency Theory has long maintained an indomitable position at the core of any philosophy of art. Simply expressed, the...
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European Design Institute

European Design Institute

This Istituto Europeo di Design (European Design Institute) isn’t just another school: it’s an international network of concentrated activities linked...
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Bizarre Jewelry with Baroque Pearls

Bizarre Jewelry with Baroque Pearls

‘Cartesian Devil’ brooch by Peter Vermandere ‘Herkules and Kakus’ pendant. Paris, approx. 1850 The central positioning of irregularly formed pearls...
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Up-and-Coming Artists Debut at Inhorgenta

Up-and-Coming Artists Debut at Inhorgenta

“Brand New – New Brand,” held at the Munich jewelry trade fair Inhorgenta Europe, is a new platform for young...
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Bernd Wolf: Life is Colorful

Bernd Wolf: Life is Colorful

Reduced lines, minimalist forms and clear colors characterize primarily the jewelry collection by the Freiburg-based jewelry designer Bernd Wolf. However,...
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Pinakothek of the Modern

Pinakothek of the Modern

The Pinakothek of the Modern unites four important museums for the first time under one roof, spanning over 12,000 square...
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Storytelling Stones

Storytelling Stones

The art of carving images onto gemstones is several thousand years old. During antiquity, the cameo (also known as camée)...
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Customized Stock Earrings

Customized Stock Earrings

This project features a stock pair of earrings that are customized for cultured pearls. The request was to design earrings...
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Modified CAD Design

Modified CAD Design

What do you do when you realize your virtual inventory is virtually impossible to manufacture? With so many jewelry designers...
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Haute Horlogerie: Resurrection of a Myth

Haute Horlogerie: Resurrection of a Myth

Haute Horlogerie is familiar with a magic word: it is called manufactory and stands for the highest art of watch...
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German-Japanese Flexibility

German-Japanese Flexibility

What is connection between a sleepy hamlet in Saarland, Germany, and the glimmering, pearly beauties of Japan? It is above...
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Metalsmith ’94 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’94 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1994 Summer issue of the...
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25th Sterling Design Competition

25th Sterling Design Competition

This article features the 25th Sterling Design Competition held at Lever House, New York City on May 30-June 19, 1984....
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Metalsmith ’90 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’90 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1990 Winter issue of the...
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Monumentality On Scale and Sculpture

Monumentality On Scale and Sculpture

As a moviegoer in the 1950s and 60s. I watched intently as insects and crustaceans were transformed into gargantuan monsters...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 2

GZ Art+Design Spots 2007 2

Concrete - It Depends what You Make of It For years in Germany, this was the advertising slogan used by...
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Jenny Reeves’ Layered Ring

Jenny Reeves’ Layered Ring

Although a Philadelphia native, designer Jenny Reeves loves her adopted city of San Francisco. When a local jewelry organization held...
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Body Art Exhibition

Body Art Exhibition

"Body Art Exhibition," an exhibition sponsored by Security Pacific Corporation, on view from September 8 to October 21, 1990, was...
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Searching the Perfect Roundness

Searching the Perfect Roundness

Gold beaten wafer-thin and pressed to form intricate hollow forms pays testimony to the high crafts skills in handling this...
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Second Annual Jewelry Metals Symposium

Second Annual Jewelry Metals Symposium

Second Annual Jewelry/Metals Symposium Seattle, Washington Seattle was recently the host as well as the delighted recipient of the second...
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Aninka Harms: Volute Jewelry

Aninka Harms: Volute Jewelry

This work is an attempt to make visible and wearable a meeting point between the two worlds of Art and...
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Polytechnic College: a Source of Diversity and Innovation

Polytechnic College: a Source of Diversity and Innovation

There is an internationally renowned education center for jewelry designers right in the middle of the live Rhine metropolis: the...
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Metalsmith ’97 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’97 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1997 Spring issue of the...
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Juried Exhibitions

There is nothing that will block the path towards acceptance in a juried situation more quickly than a poor quality...
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Metalsmith ’93 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’93 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1993 Spring issue of the...
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Field Experiment Collection

Field Experiment Collection

Field experiment? The dictionary says it means: an experiment carried out on-site which examines actual relations. Such a project was...
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The Moonlight Shimmers

The Moonlight Shimmers

Since antiquity, artists have been fascinated with the unique characteristics of silver. It shimmers as white as the moonlight, is...
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Bladed Sargasso Server by Andy Cooperman

Bladed Sargasso Server by Andy Cooperman

Andy Cooperman's Sargasso Server, a contemporary sterling silver fish slice, evokes life in the sea. The blade resembles a squid's...
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2 Tips for a Successful Jewelry Collection

2 Tips for a Successful Jewelry Collection

In times of increased price competition and global producers, cooperation with designers is also an important factor for large jewelry...
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Mary V. Smith – Burning Brightly

Mary V. Smith – Burning Brightly

A mesmerizing flame melting spectacularly colored glass into a perfect bead. The possibilities of infinite shapes and sizes. The beautiful...
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Enamel Revisited

Enamel Revisited

The Delhi chapter of the Enamelist Society, India presented "Enamel Revisited", an exhibition of a varied repertoire of enamelled paintings...
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Metalsmith ’96 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’96 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1996 Winter issue of the...
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Margaret Yaukey: A New Golden Age

Margaret Yaukey: A New Golden Age

One of the debatable inclusions in the recent Metalsmith Exhibition in Print was a pair of computer renderings by Margaret...
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Jonathon Bonner’s Conjunctions

Jonathon Bonner’s Conjunctions

"The creative process is basically a process of focus. ...If I look at things that I think are related, other...
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The Beautiful Art of Appearance

The Beautiful Art of Appearance

The item of jewelry sparkles and glitters so that the onlooker almost becomes dizzy. But everything is just an appearance...
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GZ Art+Design 2003 Spots

GZ Art+Design 2003 Spots

The Secret of Hammering Gold Traditional crafts can disappear more quickly than one might think. To keep traditional gold hammering...
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Iolite Lode

Iolite Lode

The tiny state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, has long stood in the shadow of the neighboring state of...
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One Last Idea Blow It Out Your Flask

One Last Idea Blow It Out Your Flask

Anyone who has cast 3-D printed photopolymer resins will tell you: They don’t cast like wax. One of the problems...
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Japanese Esthetics on American Crafts

Japanese Esthetics on American Crafts

Undeniably, American crafts of the 20th century have been influenced by Japanese esthetics. From raku to mokumé, American crafts would...
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Metalsmith ’93 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’93 Summer: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1993 Summer issue of the...
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Metalsmith ’91 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’91 Winter: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1991 Winter issue of the...
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Square-Shaped Treasures Made of Glass

Square-Shaped Treasures Made of Glass

If the only thing you think of is old Venetian art when someone mentions mosaics, you don’t know how imaginatively...
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Outstanding Works and Installations

Outstanding Works and Installations

Since 1981, Marianne Schliwinski and Jürgen Eickhoff have consistently presented contemporary jewelry in their Munich-based gallery Spektrum. Their declared goal...
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1989 SNAG Conference Review

1989 SNAG Conference Review

"What's in it for me?" is probably the thought of each SNAG member when the information on the annual conference...
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Peggy Kaplan

Peggy Kaplan

I started in enameling 40 years ago by accident. 10 Commandments. 3’x6’. Wall Hanging. Copper enamel, stained glass. Brass tablets....
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Three Works of Juanita Hill

Three Works of Juanita Hill

Juanita Hill, an Ohio resident, is known for her generosity of spirit as well as talent. Much of her work...
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2005 AJM Innovation Awards

2005 AJM Innovation Awards

AJM Magazine has announced the winners of the second annual AJM Innovation Awards. These awards recognize technologies that are making...
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Erik Stewart – Inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge

Erik Stewart – Inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge

It was his first time in New York City. Surrounded by the skyscrapers and bright lights of the Big Apple,...
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Gallery Oona: Jewelry in the Creative Center

Gallery Oona: Jewelry in the Creative Center

Berlin Mitte is one of the most popular addresses for creative people and their agents. The new and traditional heart...
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The Work of John Marshall

The Work of John Marshall

The success of John Marshall's art, as a practicing metalsmith, was evident in this impressive exhibition. Held in conjunction with...
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Alexandra Hart – Crowning Achievement

Alexandra Hart – Crowning Achievement

Putting a spin on tradition, Alexandra Hart of Alexandra Hart in San Diego crafted Broollopskronan, or Bridal Crown, a regal...
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It’s Kinda Magic

It’s Kinda Magic

The courageous works of gemstone cutters and designers Bernd and Tom Munsteiner continue to focus on a new direction. Brooch/necklace...
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Ars Ornata Europeana July 2007

Ars Ornata Europeana July 2007

Ars Ornata Europeana is a major biennial European celebration of contemporary jewelry, which will be held in the UK this...
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Time Step: Blossom Motifs in Jewelry

Time Step: Blossom Motifs in Jewelry

The magic of the moment is revealed in a summery fresh flower bouquet. As a symbol of vitality and transience,...
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Inner Values

Inner Values

They come in all different forms – delightful and dangerous – but there aren’t so many about now: secrets. The...
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Metalsmith ’98 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’98 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1998 Spring issue of the...
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Recent Sightings: Jamie Bennett

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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From CAD to Jewelry

From CAD to Jewelry

Although jewelry design by goldsmiths and designers is characterized by unique pieces, unlike the industrial production of jewelry, ever greater...
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Fads and Fallacies: Fashion

Fads and Fallacies: Fashion

This column is about fashion. I have been writing it for a couple of years now, still with some trepidation....
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An Interview with Garth Clark

In September of 1988, the CDK Galleries opened their doors. Partners Garth Clark, Mark Del Vecchio and Wayne Kuwada presented...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 4

GZ Art+Design Spots 2006 4

The Brat Pack at the Inhorgenta Every industry benefits from the energy and innovative ideas of its young talent. The...
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Zeitzeichen: Young Gemstone Designers

Zeitzeichen: Young Gemstone Designers

Drawing on the motto “Zeitzeichen” (Signs of the times), this years Intergem will feature striking exhibitions by ten young designers....
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The Second Round of Orders Has Higher Profile

The Second Round of Orders Has Higher Profile

Jewelers, goldsmiths and specialist retailers are increasingly ordering on short notice. In saturated markets, the demand among consumers for new...
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Luxury: Precious Brand or Unique Piece

Luxury: Precious Brand or Unique Piece

Luxury is a true growth industry in all categories, right through to “inexpsensive luxury”! The successful report by Cartier, Richemont,...
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Design for the Way Things Are: Survey of Ideas

Design for the Way Things Are: Survey of Ideas

New Jewelry Ideas from Other Realms of Experience “Meaning brings form with it; form is never without meaning” Johann Wolfgang...
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6/20 On Precious Metal Clay

6/20 On Precious Metal Clay

An enameling/jewelry student of mine discovered the 6/20 on PMC process. Always an adventurer, she was experimenting with the Thompson...
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Something Special in NE Wisconsin

Something Special in NE Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a North American state with beautiful scenery, one and a half million cows, a reputation for harsh winters,...
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Japanese Designers in New York Exhibition

Japanese Designers in New York Exhibition

This article features an Exhibition by 10 Japanese Designers in New York held at Gallery 91, New York City on ...
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1984 Jewelry International Exhibition: Observations & Review

1984 Jewelry International Exhibition: Observations & Review

First impressions being what they are, sometimes on target, and at other times missing the bull's eye by a wide...
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The Next Step for Independent Business Development

The Next Step for Independent Business Development

The following interview between Akiko Busch and Etienne Perret and Michael Good was held as a result of the business...
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Young Cellinis: Fresh Ideas for an Old Craft

Young Cellinis: Fresh Ideas for an Old Craft

Gold and silver smithing is one of the oldest artistic crafts known to humanity. It has a long tradition in...
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Fads and Fallacies: Fashion Fads

Fads and Fallacies: Fashion Fads

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine "Fads and Fallacies".  For this 1987 Winter, A....
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Creative Watch Design

Creative Watch Design

Creativity is the capability to develop original and unusual ideas and translate them into real products You need a combination...
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Jewelry from the Magic Mountain

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If you follow the constantly ascending curving road in the picturesque Taunus mountain range from Kelkheim near Frankfurt am Main...
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The Turkish designer Kemal Simsek chose an acacia as his corporate logo. And this jewelry company, not yet 10 years...
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Alex Fritsch: Design Quality for Inexpensive Prices

Axel Fritsch from Bastian sees his products as an alternative for design-focused goldsmiths and jewelers. Unlike the jewelry form major...
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Didi Suydam

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Didi Suydam The grave of the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is marked by a simple sphere....
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An exhibition is dedicated to the feather decoration of the natives of South America from the study collection of Horst...
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One of the newest earring findings to hit the market is showing a little earlobe midriffand it could turn the...
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Aesthetic interpretations are as unique as fingerprints. Give three people the same trendy sweater and each will wear it in...
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Colorful Voyage

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The traditional arts and crafts of South and Latin America and the gripping colorfulness and wildly romantic symbolism of the...
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This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine "Art and Technics" talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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The sculpture of Helen Mason raises many important issues in twentieth-century art: the relationship between craft and fine art, the...
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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Where did you learn to enamel? Daniel: I had completed my high school diploma 2001 at the Walter Gropius compartment-Highschool...
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After the end of the enamel-symposium and conference in Kecskemét (see Vol. 23, No. 5, pg. 114), some of the...
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One February at the Tucson gem shows, inspiration took flight for Katy Briscoe of Katy Briscoe Inc. in Houston. "I...
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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Twenty years of working with metal has given Cheryl Rydmark the confidence to create jewelry of great simplicity. Although the...
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Increasing numbers of jewelry designers and watch manufacturers have recognized that they can score points with customers using extravagant design...
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Nathalie Scherrer’s jewelry is signed with a stylized butterfly as her symbol of artistic creativity: always looking for new challenges...
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It is not very common to see buildings covered by huge murals made with enamel. There are some examples of...
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This article features the 57th Annual National High School Art Exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery and School of Art,...
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As a traditional symbol of good luck, this piece is inspired by the horseshoe. It is dedicated to the power...
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As the target comes into focus and the operator aligns the crosshairs, elements of the world slowly cease to exist...
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Children and adults alike enjoy the spectacle of the circus. For jewelry designer Pierre-Yves Paquette of Pierre-Yves in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec,...
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Kai Chan: Lines of Communication

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Coming to terms with the work of Kai Chan is not so much a matter of definition as of communication....
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Observations: David Clifford

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David Clifford, a recent graduate of California College of Arts and Crafts, has added a new twist to recycling. Seeking...
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Gold, silver, platinum and gem stones are increasingly getting a bad name. Environmental catastrophes, financing of criminal syndicates or warlords...
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The married goldsmith and designer couple Sabine Brandenburg-Frank and Egon Frank have, after 23 years, released themselves from the obligations...
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New design trends are by no means a product of coincidence. They develop hand in hand with contemporary events and...
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German art awarded Dutch prize The SilverArt Foundation was established in 2001 with a view to bringing modern silverwork to...
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With textures that echo the Patagonian mountains of Chile, the Torres del Paine Ring by Cynthia Rene Zava of Cynthia...
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Part I "I'll become a miner." Manfred Kuettner made this decision when he learned, while he was looking for an...
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Projects of Exploration: Honor Something Ordinary

This is the fifth in a series of projects for students. These projects were created to provide a forum in...
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Obsession and desire, whetted and starved by a society inundated with images of perfection and the elusive satisfaction concomitant with...
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What do space travel, airplane construction and the car industry have in common? They all influence watch-making. Luxury brands like...
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The sun-drenched yellow spectrum of archaic amber treasures lends its name to the trend topic. Rarities and curiosities of bygone...
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Fall, the season for international jewelry and watch trade fairs, is here once more. The International Jewelry Shows in New...
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The time of seasonal migration is upon the Continent. I am speaking of course of the mass movement of many...
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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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In previous centuries, paper was immensely precious. Today it has become a run of the mill product without any particularly...
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The traveling exhibition ‘Neue Horizonte – zeitgenossischer Schmuck aus Sudafrika’ (New Horizons – Contemporary Jewelry from South Africa) will start...
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1990 SNAG Conference Review

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This article is a review by Betsy Douglas of the 1990 SNAG Conference held in San Francisco, CA on March...
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Alishan Halebian’s Imperfect Perfection

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Alishan Halebian’s sphere is a metaphor for light and life. Beginning with the concept of a sphere, Alishan Halebian of...
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1988 SNAG 20th Anniversary Conference

What is the purpose of a SNAG conference? Why do people come? What are their expectations? Why do some cease...
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Ettagale Blauer: Soul Searching at 7000

We invited Ettagale Blauer, formerly New York Editor for Jewelers' Circular-Keystone, to attend the 1986 Society of North American Goldsmith’s...
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Creative Imagination – Undeveloped Resource

In 1959, Victor Papanek gave the third-year students in his creative engineering seminar at Ontario College of Art this problem:...
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American crafts are under-going self-examination. Expressed in countless ways, varying from anxiety to optimism, the observation that the field is...
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Dan Feldman: Allegory of Love

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Dan Feldman uses the utensil as both object and idea. Consequently, his work reveals both personal history and associations with...
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The corporate philosophy was already clearly defined when the firm was founded back in 1998: Customer centricity is the focal...
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Although it can do two things at once – combine form and function – cufflinks disappeared from the world of...
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"Thema: Stahl" is the title of an exhibition that the North Rhine-Westphalian Colloquium proposed and organized for showing in a...
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The practice of American craft is set against the larger phenomenon of industrialization: every aspect of craft compares to and...
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This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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People who think exclusively of geometric forms when they hear the name Alberto Zorzi only know half the story. His...
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Cécile Chancerel, jeweler and enameler in La Baule, France, received "Le Grand Prix des Métiers d'Art" (the Grand Prize of...
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Observations: Ben Cunningham

Ben Cunningham considers the complex histories of the uses and functions of metals and jewelry, that in a lesser artists...
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Shelter and Shrines Janice Kluge's houses combine personal metaphor, primal symbol and contemporary commentary on domestic issues. In her mixed...
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The color white is the perfect symbol of modernity. And it is currently the trendiest color for houses, furniture, cars,...
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In the 1971 Film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, the title character invites Charlie (and us viewers) to “come...
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The Contemporary Face of Tradition

The Contemporary Face of Tradition

The art of forging silver implements, vessels or containers has a long tradition. Its proponents include renowned artists, but the...
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Fads and Fallacies: First Impressions

As trite as it might sound, we still form our opinions about people as a result of "first impressions." In...
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“It’s what’s inside that counts,” so the saying goes. However, the importance of packaging for watches and jewelry is often...
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Not everyone who enjoys a cup of coffee in the afternoon pays attention to the little sachets of sugar on...
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I recently had the opportunity to teach teenagers enameling at one of my favorite places in the world, John C....
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Jewelry is truly the sum of its parts. And of those parts, chain and findings play especially important roles: In...
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Imagine a small boy in a Kansas field in the 1950s. The boy, aged five, has constructed a wooden airplane...
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Recent Sightings: Defining Jewelry

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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” and here Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the...
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Intergem 2007

Intergem 2007

INTERGEM Idar-Oberstein 5 to 8 October 2007 The most important international trade fair for gemstones Trade visitors should firmly schedule...
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Prix Golay 2006: Winner’s Circle

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Prix Golay 2006 The "cultured" pearl served as this year's theme for the Prix Golay, as participants used a South...
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Big names, small prices – this principle is familiar to us from the furniture industry, but less so from the...
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For the second time now, international jewelry artists are setting off for boundless networking of their ideas and inspirations. Jewellery...
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The Austrian city of Steyr has been a trading post for iron and a center of metalworking for many hundreds...
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Pocket Watch in the Year 2025

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The history of the pocket watch started in the 15th century. Until then, blacksmith had fashioned the iron clockwork; however,...
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1984 SNAG Conference Review

On the second day of the 1984 Society of North American Goldsmith's conference held in June in New York City,...
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Artists Who Write

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Not until the last century did the malicious and false concept arise that artists—painters, sculptors, printmakers—were anti-intellectuals. During the Renaissance...
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Learning Metalwork from Shumei Tanaka

I stood on Kawaramachi Street in downtown Kyoto. Kyoto, capital of Japan, home of the emperor from 794 to 1868,...
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Art and Technics: Broaching Subjects

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Fads and Fallacies: Melancholic Designs

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine "Fads and Fallacies".  For this 1987 Fall, A....
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Elektronos Competition for Amber Jewelry

Elektronos Competition for Amber Jewelry

The international jury convened for the 11th time to select from over 80 entries the prize winners in the competition...
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Global Painting

Global Painting

Inspiration Kenya meets Tokyo - Morocco encounters Amsterdam! The shifting together of most different countries and cultures paints a global...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2005 1

GZ Art+Design Spots 2005 1

Swiss quality in the tool sector Edenta, the specialist company guarantees absolute quality consistency. Its range of top grade abrasive...
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Jewelry Designs: Grace Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Grace Pendant

The Grace Pendant was designed specially for the Heart Gala, a benefit for the American Heart Association that Stacey and...
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Deficits in Jewelry Design Marketing

While firms in the US have busied themselves for decades with marketing goals and tasks, the topic was first taken...
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Art and Technics: Learning from History

Art and Technics: Learning from History

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Recent Sightings: Gender Related Nature of Jewelry Designs

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named "Recent Sightings" where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the artists,...
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1987 SNAG Conference Review

1987 SNAG Conference Review

What if They Gave a Conference and Nobody Came? In this article, Donald Friedlich offers his insight and review the...
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1994 SNAG Conference

1994 SNAG Conference

SNAG '94 was a patchwork of voices. The conference theme, "Transformations: Personal Artistic Evolution", was dedicated to the individual creative...
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Porcelain: It’s in One Material

Porcelain: It’s in One Material

It is almost as if he had reinvented porcelain: work by the Belgian industrial designer, craftsman and artist Piet Stockman’s...
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Metalsmith ’92 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’92 Spring: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the [year] [season] issue of the...
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1992 Snag Conference Review

This article is a review by Matthew Hollern of the 1992 SNAG Conference held in Providence, Rhode Island on June...
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Grisaille Revisited

Grisaille Revisited

Grisaille Revisited I first became acquainted with grisaille through New York enamelist and jeweler Antonia Schwed, who had taken "a...
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Observations: Andrew Cooperman

Observations: Andrew Cooperman

A textured surface is information to Andrew Cooperman. Torn, distressed, and manipulated surfaces that weave a common thread throughout his...
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1984 SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design Competition

1984 SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design Competition

For a jewelry design editor such as myself judging a competition such as the second annual "SNAG Platinum Jewelry Design...
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Ambiguous Visions of Louise Norrell

Ambiguous Visions of Louise Norrell

It's hard to think of a comparison. While I can haphazardly categorize today's non jewelry metalsmithing as either traditional holloware...
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2013 MJSA Thinking Ahead Award – Mike Joyce

2013 MJSA Thinking Ahead Award – Mike Joyce

For the past 10 years, MJSA has recognized the technological advances and products that are making a difference in the...
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Jewelry Designs: Sisters Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Sisters Pendant

Sisterhood, however you define it, is the strongest bond. Best friends, mothers and daughters, your own sisters, or anyone very...
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Recent Signtings: Pluralism in Metals

Recent Signtings: Pluralism in Metals

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” and here Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the...
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Monumentality in Miniature

Monumentality in Miniature

Much American jewelry in the 1980s mirrored the decade’s excess: an abundance of found object forms flooded the galleries. This...
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Wolfgang Uhl: Lord of the Stones

Wolfgang Uhl: Lord of the Stones

It is often multi-professionals that enrich contemporary jewelry design with their new points of view. This is also true of...
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Art and Technics: Supplies and Materials

Art and Technics: Supplies and Materials

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Placed in Chains

Placed in Chains

The master goldsmiths Heike and Roland Simon are almost wholly dedicated to the art of chain making. Each piece that...
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Danner Prize 2005: Competition for Arts and Crafts

Danner Prize 2005: Competition for Arts and Crafts

The Danner Prize has existed for over two decades; it was organized for the eighth time in 2005. The arts...
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Lange: Everything Under One Roof

Lange: Everything Under One Roof

Decorate-package-furnish is the motto of the company Lange, a supplier specialized in the jewelry and watch industry. The full Lange...
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Urban Oasis

Urban Oasis

The borders between outside and inside are disappearing increasingly. Urban oasis in the form of roof and facade gardens permit...
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Church Treasure Given Shiny New Cover

Church Treasure Given Shiny New Cover

The Vorau Foundation has a special treasure in its possession: the so-called ‘Vorauer Evangeliar’, a magnificent manuscript which is considered...
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Stimulation of Optical Challenges

Difficult times are often good times for the unusual. The higher the hurdle that must be overcome to make clients...
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Delicate Chokers

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Strings of pearls resting directly on the neck: The Freiburg-based company pars pro toto producers chokers that are popular among...
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We are a group of artists who call ourselves "Nine Lively Ladies." A year ago, I had to come up...
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M. Avigail Upin: Current Work Exhibition

M. Avigail Upin's carefully constructed work displays a cool and impeccable cleanness of style, with silver the dominant material. Her...
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Jeweler Experiences in Tool Design

As you may have guessed, I highly recommend taking out frustrations at the bench on your tools. If you are...
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Living Stones: Nature as the Artist

Living Stones: Nature as the Artist

Where does nature end and art begin? This question is the subject of an exhibition that renders almost tangible the...
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GZ Art+Design Spots 2005 3

Magic and the mystery of preciousness It was designed as the project of the century, just as expensive as it...
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A little piece of Sweden’s industrial past is located in the South of the city center in Stockholm; it is...
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Recent Sightings: SNAG’s first Exhibition-in-Print

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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European Notebook 1994 Spring

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For your European correspondent it was Christmas in Brighton and then New Years in Paris – which is not the...
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ZeitZeichen: A Time Signal

ZeitZeichen: A Time Signal

For the last four years, ten young gemstone designers from Rhineland-Palatinate have been collaborating under the title of ‘ZeitZeichen’ (time...
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Jewelry Metal Trends for 2016

Discover the top jewelry trends in gold, silver, and platinum—and what you can expect to see in the metals markets...
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Two Trial Pieces

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The article titled 'The Enamels of Alan Mudd' in Glass on Metal Vol. 28-2, Apr. 2009, pp 28-30, featured his...
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Postal Cards and Postage Stamps

Postal Cards and Postage Stamps

A risk was taken on my part with the concept for an exhibition entitled "Postal Cards and Postage Stamps," for...
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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the artists,...
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Art and Technics: Color

Art and Technics: Color

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past five years, you are aware of the current interest in...
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2008 Enamel Foundation Conference

2008 Enamel Foundation Conference

Our second conference was a success! The conference started promptly at 9 a.m., August 18 - a beautiful sunny day....
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Harold Balazs: Large Scale Enamel Workshop

Harold Balazs: Large Scale Enamel Workshop

From March 21 through March 24, 2007, The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation held a Large Scale Enamel Workshop featuring Harold...
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Magical Days in Mexico

What would be your reaction to an invitation to come and teach an enamel workshop in the middle of February...
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Color Up Your Life with Gaudy Jewels

Color Up Your Life with Gaudy Jewels

Even the poet and philosopher Goethe knew that color affects emotions and therefore directly influences the sould and the unity...
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Siamo Qui: We Are Here

Siamo Qui: We Are Here

Ten years after it was first established, the ‘Alchimia’ private School for Goldsmithing and Jewelry, together with the ‘Opera Rebis’...
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Easter Parade 2006 at the Keukenhof

Easter Parade 2006 at the Keukenhof

In the famous bulb flower park Keukenhof (Lisse, Netherlands) this year the already traditional Easter Parade will be held for...
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Recent Sightings: Craft Identity

Recent Sightings: Craft Identity

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Recent Sightings: Jewelerly Jewelers

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Jewelry Designs: Raindrops Pendant

Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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The Goldsmith & The Grape Exhibition

I thought this was a dazzling exhibition, even before I had a glass of wine. It was definitely a step...
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Art and Technics: Act of Technique

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Art and Technics” talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Art and Technics: Finishing

Art and Technics: Finishing

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine "Art and Technics" talking about techniques in craftsmanship...
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Yang Renping: Barely Breathing

The stories are undeniably heartbreaking. Yang Renping, 41 of two children, coughs continuously and walks only weakly. He’s suffering from...
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Atelier Product Range Making Jewelry Ideas a Reality

The ‘Atelier’ product range from Heimerle + Meule is of particular interest to goldsmiths, watchmakers and all jewelry creators. To...
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Love’s Labors Lost

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One of the things that unites practicing jewelers – especially those who given their lives over to the craft –...
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This exhibition of two sculptors at the Merritt Gallery constituted the first major showing of work by either artist. An...
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2015 Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition

2015 Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition

The 2015 Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition winners were announced on JUL 24, 2015 by the Center for Metal Arts in downstate...
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The Economics of Ornamenta 1 is a letter by Dr. Joachim Becker, Mayor of the City of Pforzheim, stating what...
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Conversations on Technology happened during a couple of cold winter evenings, Stanley Lechtzin and Michael Dunas examined ideas raised at...
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Wiring Media Part 1

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Regardless of whether you might run a one person shop or manage legions of employees, constant media liaisons just do...
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Rebra Collection: Showcasing Made Easy

If you are on the road a lot doing business, you know what it means to reduce your luggage by...
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Karl Lagerfeld is the person to thank for elevating tie pins to haute couture. "I love neckties, but I only...
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The Beginnings The Private Secondary School with Education in Hungarian Language in Gúta began in 1991. It was founded by...
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4 Key Jewelry Trends 2015

Amid the holiday craziness that will be descending on the industry this month, it’s important to take time and give...
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In the world of fine art, galleries wield enormous power. Galleries such as Castelli, Knoedler and Marlborough, through the artists...
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In times, characterized by temporal and rapid changes in many values, it is necessary to hold on to tradition, particularly...
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The English enameller, Alan Mudd, born in Lancashire, began his studies in the fine arts, and served an indentured apprenticeship...
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This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1998 Winter issue of the...
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2014 Hottest Colored Stone Hues

Editor's Note: For more than 20 years, Pantone, the global authority on color, has surveyed the designers of Mercedes-Benz Fashion...
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Metalsmith ’84 Fall: Health Hazards Q&A’s

Linda Weiss-Edwards provides a list of Onsite Consultation for Artists and Schools from each state in the United States in...
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2009 AJDC New Talent Award

2009 AJDC New Talent Award

Jewelry artist Leila Tai was honored by the American Jewelry Design Council as the Grand Prize winner of its 2009...
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Dazzling Blackness

Inspiration A topic enthused by its dizzying variety, characterized by a striking contrast between white and black and an enormously...
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Lovely Luxury

Lovely Luxury

Inspiration The design inspiration of three decades melt together to form a sweet and poetic topic of luxury; colors, forms...
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Five designers, five different approaches in the perception of jewelry, five creative providers of ideas: this is the design group...
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Tanphanie: Works of Art for the Body

The Tanphanie Edition from German-Japanese pearl dealers Perlen Yukie is much more than just a jewelry collection. Each individual piece...
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Beautiful Gemstones

Rare and beautiful gemstones, gemstone bead strings and cut stones – this is the product range that the married couple...
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A cool application to create a computer generated Celtic Knots Knots3D is written in Visual Basic 6. It comes...
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“It was a fine thing for me to have something lying on the bench before me made by one of...
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Komako Okumura

When and how did you become involved in enameling? I saw great work of enamel in an art museum eight...
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New Palette for Fine Art Students

The College of Art, which is located in the heart of the capital city of India, is one of the...
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1983 Artpark Experience

1983 Artpark Experience

About 30 miles north of Buffalo, New York, less than 10 miles downstream from Niagara Falls, is a unique facility...
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Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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Fourth Annual Selected University Metalsmiths

Fourth Annual Selected University Metalsmiths

Fourth Annual Selected University Metalsmiths Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS October 24- November 11, 1983...
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The Prospective General Teacher of Art

The teacher of vocational courses in art should be thoroughly trained in his craft and, if possible, should be a...
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The Art of Conversation

The Art of Conversation

Many people I know romanticize an afternoon in a cage in a cultural mecca - maybe Paris or Rome -...
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From the Bench: Sisyphus

From the Bench: Sisyphus In the city where I grew up – Chicago – the ghettos were literally crumbling. My...
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Studio Multiples/Portfolio

Studio Multiples/Portfolio The works presented in this portfolio were selected through a challenging jurying process. Space constraints forced us to...
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Talin, Erlin and Annie, these are the names behind the abbreviation T.E.A., uniting more than just their passion for extraordinary...
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2017 Editors Choice Winners

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International Jewellery London (IJL) recently announced the names of its three Editors’ Choice winners for 2017. Chosen for their creative...
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Time Step: Ornamented Enamel Work

Antique, Gothic, Baroque - at the end of the 19th century, in the age of Historism, a number of different...
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Fads and Fallacies: Art is Life

This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Fads and Fallacies”.  For this 1987 Spring issue, ...
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Sam Kramer: Fantastic Jewelry

Sam Kramer: Fantastic Jewelry

S. J. Perelman covered his leaflets. This “Fantastic Jewelry” appeared in scored of articles in periodicals from Design Quarterly to...
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New Ideas in Setting the Stage

As a goldsmith, how do you increase the number of customers frequenting your business? How can you make more sales...
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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Every pair of Marion Knorr’s ‘Wilde Ehe Ringe’ (or wild wedding rings) tells a story. This terms is a play...
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This article is one of a series of articles from Metalsmith Magazine “Fads and Fallacies”.  For this 1989 Summer, A....
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Recent Sightings: Jewelry Teachers

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” and here Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the...
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The colors of metal is a strong point of attraction for goldsmith designers. But it takes a lot of experience...
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I. We began the jurying of the 1996 Exhibition in Print by passing the morning in silence, looking at the...
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Living Design

In his book "For Common Things", the American author Jedediah Purdy foretells the end of the fun society. It is...
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Promotional Items and Displaying Jewelry

These days, great diamonds are placed on display materials and packaging. They must be inexpensive, part of an integrated communication...
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Studio Beyond Walls June 2010

The show season had come and gone. With my kids still in school, I was unable to participate in the...
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When I was asked to make an enameled Menorah last summer, I agreed to try. The only ones I had...
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6 Key Jewelry Trends 2014

It’s true that fashion is cyclical, as emerging trends are often reminiscent of days gone by. There is also a...
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This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftmanship, design, the artists,...
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Where Jewelry Resides

When you were a child, did you also have a secret trove in which you collected your favorite things? Stones...
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Jewelry on the Net Opportunity or Debacle

Within just ten years of Internet history, the range of jewelry on offer on the Net has grown to a...
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Issues Fall 1983

Craft and commerce came together with spirit and style at the 1983 Society of North American Goldsmiths' conference held at...
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