2020-05-01_Lapidary_Journal_Jewelry_Artist

and dance in Western civilization, stretching across two centuries. In non-Western cultures, dot pat- terns have symbolic and so ...

Alishan Halebian Jitter Bug Cuff Water buffalo horn, 18K white and yellow gold, freshwater pearls, diamonds, rubies PHOTO: SARA ...

round, soft and magical. I started with a large, domed circular form, and placed it atop a double cylindri- cal ring to make a b ...

OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; PR OC ES S^ P HO TO S:^ MO MO KO O KA DA M ETAL INLAY is one of the traditional metals tec ...

TIME IT TOOK About an hour; curing time, 12-24 hours SKILLS Sawing Filing Drilling Annealing silver wire MATERIALS Pre-cut hear ...

Jewelry Project ESSENCE OF JAPAN 6 Center punch only the largest dots. Tape down the piece to secure it. 7 I recommend cutting o ...

GILDING 17 Flip the piece and paint the surface with oil or water sizing. In this project, I am using oil sizing. For oil sizing ...

T he odyssey began un- expectedly. When an American teacher of Eng- lish showed up asking for temporary work at the Okada family ...

we’re talking bamboo forests, rice paddies, tatami mats,” she grins. There she discovered two things: she really wanted to learn ...

contain anywhere from 500 to 750 individual incised grooves. An entire piece can have tens of thousands of these hand-cut lines. ...

A Brief Glossary of Traditional Japanese Metalworking Courtesy of Georgiy Shoulga, http://www.smokingsamurai.com/NONUME_ZOGAN.ht ...

Cultural Fusion glass blowing, and electroforming, and it was like, whew. I think I’ve got it! Electroforming really helped to c ...

MAY/JUNE 2020 31 ® Life is what you make it. Made w it h N E W Artistic Wire MultiColor Wire. Made with Artistic Wire Mu Visit o ...

32 LAPIDARY JOURNAL JEWELRY ARTIST BRIGHT AND UNUSUAL, pyrite-in-agate comes to the market from Mexico and Indonesia. The shiny ...

MAY/JUNE 2020 33 How much does it cost? Rough can run from $5 to $25 per pound. Cut stones are priced by the stone and range fro ...

OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; PR OC ES S^ P HO TO S:^ TA LIA D OO M I F YOU’RE STARTING to explore bezel setting, this i ...

TIME IT TOOK 2 hours SKILLS Intermediate metalsmithing MATERIALS Two 10mm round pyritized agate cabochons Two 33mm of sterling ...

Jewelry Project RIPPLES 4a Using medium solder, solder your bezel wires to the bases. 4b Pickle them, and then fi le any remaini ...

FINAL TOUCHES I hope you kept everything pretty clean as you went along! The initial polish is the least fun step. 9a Start with ...

OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; EL LE NS BU RG B LU E^ A GA TE :^ C OU RT ES Y^ C AR LS ON B RO TH ER S^ J EW EL RY T oday ...