Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist – September 2019
36 LAPIDARY JOURNAL JEWELRY ARTIST AT ONE TIME, labradorite was fairly unknown in jewelry. Maybe you’ve seen or heard of it as a ...
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 37 How much does it cost? Reasonable: $1 to $2 a carat, $30 to $60 per stone for a good- sized, high-qual ...
OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; P RO CE SS P HO TO S:^ KIE U^ P HA M^ GR AY I T WINKED AT ME at last year’s Tucson gem sho ...
SKILLS Intermediate metalsmithing TIME IT TOOK 4 hours MATERIALS Gem cabochon (labradorite shown) Shell Gem bead with hole larg ...
Jewelry Project BLUE & YELLOW LAB 4-5 Use your tracing as a guide. Anneal and fl atten the wire with a rawhide mallet as nee ...
14 Use this as the measurement for the width of your bezel wire. With a metal ruler, create a guideline for cutting the bezel. C ...
Jewelry Project BLUE & YELLOW LAB 22 Mark the top of the arch for drilling. 23 To ensure that the drill holes are evenly cut ...
Attach a jump ring to the end of each chain, attach to the rectangle wire, and solder closed. Use easy solder; I like to use sol ...
B y the time Game of Thrones wound to an end earlier this year, it was attract- ing more than 12 million viewers worldwide. Medi ...
Judith Kaufman both produce fi nely fi nished gold pieces inspired by Re- vival jewels of the late 19th century. Younger artists ...
Revival another symbol of transformation and eternity, one that proved even more universal and wearable than the beetle. Revival ...
that’s intrigued artists for thousands of years for varying reasons. Diff er- ent cultures had diff erent meanings they applied ...
PH OT OS :^ C OU RT ES Y^ L OR EN N IC OL E J ewelry doesn’t get more authentically ancient than Loren Nicole’s. That’s the lure ...
She usually begins by fl ipping through books on the culture, looking for what she calls the “key shapes” that crop up in textil ...
Ancient Reinvented says. “I have to restrain myself be- cause that’s not what people today want, that tedious decoration on ever ...
times, she points out: “They would use reeds and blow air through bam- boo pipes to concentrate the fl ame.” Despite the fast-gr ...
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OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; P RO CE SS P HO TO S:^ NO ËL YO VO VI CH “C AN YOU DRAW cartoons to illustrate a dry-as-du ...
SKILLS Basic metal clay fabrication TIME IT TOOK About 2 hours plus fi ring time (and do-overs!) Paper template: 1 hour Polymer ...
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