The Craft of Silversmithing
The Craft of Silversmithing

Author: Alex Austin

Publisher: Lark Books (NC)

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781579904494

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Take a fresh look at the ancient craft of silversmithing with 18 projects that teach a solid body of skills. This full-color comprehensive manual provides artisans with a thorough understanding of silver’s properties: what it is and how it behaves. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques are explained and can be applied to crafting amazingly beautiful items. Use brushing, sawing, piercing, and polishing procedures to fashion a simple bud vase. Progress to a baby rattle or candleholder created with soldering, sinking, dapping, and forging techniques. Ultimately you’ll have the expertise to complete a martini set, lidded container, or teapot.

The Craft of Silversmithing
The Craft of Silversmithing

Author: Alex Austin

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781600591310

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Take a fresh look at the ancient craft of silversmithing with 18 projects that teach a solid body of skills. This full-color, comprehensive manual provides artisans with a thorough understanding of silver’s properties: what it is and how it behaves. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques are explained and then applied to craft amazingly beautiful items, from accessories to wearables and extraordinary gifts. Use brushing, sawing, piercing, and polishing procedures to fashion a simple bud vase. Progress to a baby rattle or candleholder created with soldering, sinking, dapping, and forging techniques. Ultimately you’ll have the expertise to complete a martini set, lidded container, or teapot. The art of silversmithing has never been easier or more enjoyable.

Silversmithing
Silversmithing

Author: Rupert Finegold

Publisher: Krause Publications Craft

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13:

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A guide to the basic tools, materials, and techniques of the silversmith includes discussions of the procedures for creating bowls, trays, flatware, and other items.

Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers
Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers

Author: Elizabeth Bone

Publisher: Interweave

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596684997

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Your expert techniques with a silver lining! A comprehensive guide, Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers details techniques, surface treatments, and innovations specifically designed for all jewelry makers working in silver, and especially focuses on the needs and interests relevant to metal-jewelry artisans. Explore basic skills as well as specialist techniques, including filigree, chasing, annealing, engraving, etching, casting, and much more. Plus, profiles of contemporary practitioners are included in every section, along with galleries illustrating a range of beautifully crafted finished works. The handy resource section also features a how-to for selling jewelry in the contemporary accessories market. Experienced jewelry makers interested in either exploring silver for the first time or taking their silver jewelry to the next level will love this harmonious marriage between expert silversmithing advice and a jewelry artisan sensibility.

Indian Silversmithing
Indian Silversmithing

Author: W. Ben Hunt

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781648372575

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W. Ben Hunt's Indian Silversmithing offers a rich history of this southwestern Native American craft and provides an invaluable reference manual for crafters and hobbyists who want to learn and practice the art themselves.

Creative Gold- and Silversmithing
Creative Gold- and Silversmithing

Author: Sharr Choate

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1988-12-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780517524138

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"Here is the definitive book on jewelry making and other customized pieces of metalcraft, covering the subject completely and containing many hundreds of how to drawings and photographs. It is a must for beginning gold and silversmiths and an indispensable reference for the experienced craftsman artist."--Dust jacket.

Small-Scale Silversmithing
Small-Scale Silversmithing

Author: F J Whitelaw

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1785006185

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Silversmithing is an exciting and developing craft, which combines traditional techniques with contemporary design and technology. This practical book introduces the craft with a guide to the workshop and its tools, then emphasises the importance of drawing and design before explaining key techniques and showing how they can be used in clearly illustrated projects. By keeping the individual pieces small, it explains a range of skills that can be developed and combined to make more adventurous items. It discusses transforming silver sheets or rods into three-dimensional shapes using sinking, raising and forging techniques. It teaches how to silver solder and attach handles to the rounded body of a bowl and create well-fitting seams. Nine projects illustrate the techniques in use and include making spoons, round boxes, hinged lids, drinker beakers and candlesticks.

How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line
How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line

Author: Emilie Shapiro

Publisher: Union Square + ORM

Published: 2018-04-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1454710853

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A successful jewelry designer offers a practical guide to starting your business, selling your creations, and building your brand. To develop a successful jewelry line, designers have to be more than just creative artists—they have to understand the ins and outs of running a crafts business. Emilie Shapiro’s detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handmade collection that people will buy, including: where to sell your work how to do small-scale production how to carry out market research and publicity how to price and present your pieces for greatest effect, and much more Includes photos

Silver Jewellery Making
Silver Jewellery Making

Author: Machi de Waard

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1782217355

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"...one of the most comprehensive beginner’s guides to jewelry silversmithing available." BOOKLIST 2/1/21 Silver Jewellery Making is a practical beginners' guide to making silver jewelry, with step-by-step projects guiding the reader through seven projects. The projects are designed to help the reader gain skills and techniques and eventually progress to making their own designs. The seven tried-and-tested projects have been developed by Janet over forty years of teaching and have been honed to develop readers' skills in a practical, doable order. The emphasis is on teaching good practice and acquiring the basic techniques and skills to give the reader a solid basis for developing their jewelry-making capabilities. Tools will be introduced for each individual project, and their uses and correct handling explained. Troubleshooting tips explain how to overcome common problems that may arise. At the conclusion of each project, there will be examples of how the skills gained can be used to make other items. The book is for those who wish to start jewelry making either on their own or as a supplement to beginners' classes.