Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist

In every issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist you’ll get hands-on expertise, illustrated demos, and projects loaded with valuable tips and design ideas to inspire your own metal jewelry designs. Plus our experts answer all your technical questions, and you’ll learn the pros’ favorite tools and how to use them.

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LAPIDARY JOURNAL JEWELRY ARTIST

Design Challenges

Letters

Next Time

Their Turn • a gallery of this issue’s contributors

When You Meet the Press • If you see me at a show, help me help you

PLIERS for Every Purpose • Great new hand tools, impossible to resist

IT’S ALL IN THE MIX • Get creative with cut and color

Imagine & Reimagine • Trained as a metalsmith, Sarah Wilbanks focuses on image transfers and polymer clay to make jewelry you’d never guess relied on either

Starlight Lanterns • Translucent warm toned cone dangle earrings using image-transferred polymer clay, silver leaf, and sterling wire

Santa Rita Sunset • A long-time, often impatient rockhound, lapidary, and goldsmith in Tucson finally scores colorful Arizona rock worth the wait

What’s That Mean?

They Won! • The 2018 Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition

Dragon Pick • A fanciful pendant for guitar players and music lovers generally

Flaming Shades • Torch fire enamels when you want color right away

How About Colorless? • White topaz can make a good accent stone — if it’s well cut

Texas Star • Inspired by the Lone Star cut — official faceting design of Texas

Celebrate Blue • A simple chain maille necklace that showcases topaz beads in the color known as London blue

Hand-Cut Tips • The beads in this necklace are hand-cut gemstones. This means they will come in variable sizes. Here are some ways to work with or around them.

Humming Along • Depict a colorful hummingbird with cloisonné enameling to wear as a pendant

All Sides Considered • This open-sided setting perfectly shows off a drusy azurite while keeping it secure

DIY Retail • Whether through a small space in the studio or a shop of their own, jewelry designers increasingly sell their work in person directly to the public

Never Miss An Issue! • Subscribe to Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine and become a skilled jewelry artist today!

The New Mom & Pop • Space, use, and represented artists may vary even for the same couple, but selling jewelry directly to customers is often easiest when a spouse can manage the business

Your Own Artisan Gallery • When selling the jewelry you make becomes mostly selling jewelry made by other artists

Facets • news & product innovations

focus on…education

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