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The ancient, highly skilled craft of manipulating gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones into jewelry is presented here in a practical text. The authors take readers through a graded series of problems, progressing from simple to complex pieces.
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Jewelry Making and Design An Illustrated Textbook for Teachers, Students of Designs and Craft Workers by Augustus F. Rose and Antonio Cirino
The ancient, highly skilled craft of manipulating gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones into jewelry is shown here in practical text. The aucthors take you through a graded series of problems, progressing from simple to complex pieces, teaching you all you need to know along the way.
The series of problems are fully illustrated, and include 53 different design ideas, as well as photographs of the tools and processes involved. The first problem is a pierce brooch, and subsequent problems teach you to make booches set with stones, chased and repoussé brooches, wire pendants, rings with four different types of settings, chains, and cuff links. Executing these pieces teaches you the processes of soldering, pickling, using a gas jet and blow pipe, making a plain and shouldered bezel, annealing, enameling, making a mould for casting, and much more.
Following the section on the making of jewelry, the author turn to a discussion of the aesthetics of jewelry design. 306 pages.
Trade paperback 5¼" x 8½" published by Dover Publications. Fourth Revised Edition, 1967. Book is new.
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