Jewelry Design Books
Cool Copper Cuffs: 25 Metal and Wire Projects
Copper is affordable, plentiful and easy to work with. In her second book Eva M. Sherman explores ways copper, copper wire and sheet metal can be transformed into numerous different styles of cuffs. She uses standard gauges of sheet and wire, along with common metalworking and wire working tools to create over 25 unique cuffs.
New Necklaces: 400+ Contemporary Designs
New Necklaces features a selection of impressive pieces by more than 180 artists from forty-two countries. From those that look back to classic forms and materials to the most daring, experimental, and surprising ideas, each of the five hundred necklaces included in this book has something that makes it unique and relates strongly to today's social, cultural, and artistic reality.
Vanishing Beauty: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection
This book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects offer a material record of vanishing ways of life. Used as portable forms of wealth, as personal adornment, and in religious practice, they represent a broad spectrum of cultures. The majority comes from the Himalayan region, including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia, and other pieces hail from Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Bead Pendants & Necklaces: 20 Beautiful Jewelry Designs
Bead Pendants & Necklaces features 20 beautiful projects ranging in skill level from beginner to experienced. A fully illustrated techniques section teaches you the basics of jewelry-making and gives you a base to build off of so that you can even create your own brand new designs.
Jewelry International Volume VI
The sixth Jewelry International features the world's most exquisite jewels and the companies that craft them.
Precious Statements
This lavishly illustrated and exquisitely designed book gives a comprehensive display of the work of eminent jeweller and designer John Donald.
Metal Jewelry Made Easy
Metal Jewelry Made Easy: A Crafter's Guide to Fabricating Necklaces, Earrings, Bracelets - a beautifully photographed, comprehensive guide - provides crafters of all levels with a gentle, user-friendly approach to substantial metal jewelry-making skills. After reviewing the fundamentals of jewelry design, raw materials, and safety in the studio, readers are introduced to tools for cutting, drilling, forming, soldering, polishing, and more. Next, they learn a variety of techniques, including piercing, stamping, forging, annealing, oxidizing, casting, and even setting stones, enabling them to create 25 stunning and professional-looking projects.
Making Metal Jewelry: Projects, Techniques, Inspiration
No soldering is required to make these metal necklaces, rings, bracelets, and earrings; they're cold-connected, using such easy-to-learn skills as piercing, sawing, riveting, and joining. Create your own chains, ear wires, clasps, and other findings from wire jump rings. Learn metal texturing and finishing techniques such as chasing, etching, and adding a patina.
Éclat: The Masters of New Jewelry Design
Through beautiful photos and interviews with the designers Éclat presents the ways these most important jewelers have dominated the landscape of jewelry design in the last years. Their jewels, a fascinating fuse of imagination and innovation, pave the way for the future and rising stars.
Cartier in the 20th Century
Created with the expertise of Cartier Heritage, this exquisite book showcases the rich holdings of the Cartier Collection and archive. It features not only a sumptuous array of rings, bracelets, necklaces, and tiaras, but also cocktail and smoking accessories, mystery clocks, and lavish objects created by Cartier's ateliers in Paris, London, and New York. Organized thematically, the book features magnificent jewels and accessories owned by such arbiters of taste as Daisy Fellowes, the Duchess of Windsor, Princess Grace, Barbara Hutton, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Jewelry's Shining Stars
Jewelry's Shining Stars features 38 talents who cross the boundaries of art, function and wearability to form a distinctive imprint on contemporary jewelry.
The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers
The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers features clear instructions for jewellers of all levels, from the hobbyist to the experienced maker who is looking to expand their soldering skills. It includes pre- and post-soldering techniques, safety procedures, essential equipment and materials required, along with tips and tricks of the trade from leading jewellers.
The Jewelry Architect
Innovative jewelry artist Kate McKinnon takes you on a creative journey of techniques and projects in The Jewelry Architect as she uses a variety of materials and tools to create gallery-quality bracelets, necklaces, and rings.
Mixed Media Jewelry: Methods and Techniques
There are very few books currently covering mixed media jewelry, and this book provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to all the materials and techniques you need to get you started in this exciting area of jewelry making.
Create Jewelry: Glass
Create Jewelry: Glass features 21 stunning projects ranging in difficulty from easy stringing pieces to more involved seed-bead weaving designs. All projects are glamorous and timeless and represent unique ways to use glass beads in jewelry designs for necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.
The Art of Cartier
The Art of Cartier is published to coincide with the exhibition of more than 400 pieces from the historic collection of the legendary French jeweler Cartier at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The Art of Cartier offers a comprehensive selection of the finest jewels that Cartier has repurchased over the years, in an attempt to assemble a representative collection of the Maison's production and to show the evolution of its style during the first half of the twentieth century.
Basics Fashion Design 10: Jewellery Design
Basics Fashion Design 10: Jewellery Design begins with a history of jewellery, investigates jewellery styles and research, design creation, development and realization, marketing and careers. The book features stunning pieces of jewellery and interviews with impressive jewellery designers such as Nadja Swarovski, Shaun Leane, Stephen Webster, Anne Kazuro-Guionnet and Lara Bohinc.
PUSH Jewelry
PUSH Jewelry profiles the cutting-edge work of 30 top jewelry artists from around the world, including such standouts as Lucy Sarneel and Beppe Kessler.
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design
Featuring the world's most notable, modern-day jewelry designers, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design is filled with more than 1300 photographs and illustrations that showcase each artist's unique and diverse style. This large-scale, beautifully designed anthology offers readers an in-depth look at established and emerging international designers, providing stunning visual examples of their jewelry, along with detailed explanations that reveal the inspiration behind their work.
Unexpected Pleasures
Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewelry focuses on the historical precedents for art jewelry with works by artists such as Alexander Calder and Meret Oppenheim; traditional jewelry forms that have been transformed formally or materially to become contemporary works of art; jewelry as fashion accessories, with works designed for catwalk presentations by Martin Margiela and Alexander McQueen; and jewelry designs and their relationship with the body, including industrial designs such as the Sony Walkman and the iPod.
A Girl's Best Friends
Contemporary jewelry has been vitalized by a recent burst of innovative concepts, materials, and designers. A Girl's Best Friends is a compilation of the most creative pieces by outstanding jewelry designers from around the world.
Drawing Jewels for Fashion
In this illustrated collection of fashion illustrations of jewels, Vogue jewelry editor Carol Woolton draws out the essence of the jewelry designers' creative energy. Organized thematically around the topics of civilization, the natural world, art and architecture, culture and literature, raw materials and history, this book examines the relationship between drawing and jewelry design and features pages from the designers' sketchbooks, images from their mood boards, and photographs of their newest designs.
Maggie Meister's Classical Elegance
This entry in Lark Jewelry & Beading's bestselling Beadweaving Master Class series showcases the amazing work of renowned beader and teacher Maggie Meister. Drawing on patterns and motifs as diverse as classical Roman arts, Middle Eastern textiles, and European architecture, Maggie has created 20 exquisite projects for beaders to make that incorporate a variety of stitches.
Bulgari: 125 Years of Italian Magnificence
A kaleidoscopic, colorful, and dazzlingly illustrated history of Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book showcases more than three hundred objects from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. The catalogue highlights Bulgari's signature use of gold coins and serpent motifs. And an entire section is devoted to Bulgari and the film industry of the fifties and sixties.
Contemporary Jewellers
Contemporary Jewellers offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the creative, conceptual and technical working practices that underpin the aesthetic of each practitioner's work.
Vintage Jewelry Design
Vintage Jewelry Design showcases classic vintage jewelry from the past 100 years. Featuring examples that epitomize the iconic styles of each decade, it offers an overview of the most influential designers, their sources of inspiration, and materials of choice.
Wire Jewellery
As well as being one of the earliest and most traditional materials for making jewelery, wire working is one of the most accessible of jewellery making processes. Hans Stofer's practical book is an essential introductory guide to wire jewelery for newcomers and a highly useful reference tool and source of inspiration for established jewelers.
500 Silver Jewelry Designs
This new addition to the 500 series is an outstanding collection of handmade silver jewelry by both established and emerging international designers.
Jewelry Design Challenge
Challenges are one of the hottest crafting trends, so we put a who's who of modern jewelry artists to the test. Chosen for their different aesthetic visions, 30 designers received a box containing nine jewelry supplies with the request that they create a piece using only those items, plus one "wild card" material of their choice. These are their show stopping designs, complete with how-to steps for making them.
Amazing Cartier: Jewelry Design since 1937
Cartier's peerless designers have continued to amaze decade after decade - from the 1930s into the twenty-first century - with their fanciful and trendsetting creations. This volume charts the rise of the pioneering company from 1937 - detailing its capacity for invention and reinvention, its themes and inspirations-and pays tribute to the visionaries who made its name.