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Electroplating Jewellery

Electroplating Jewellery

Electroplating is a method to put a metal coating onto an object, in our case a piece of jewellery, by...
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4 C’s of Effective Communication

Peter Drucker claims that 60% of all business problems result from faulty communication. The percentage is even higher in our...
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Calculating ROI for Tool and Equipment Purchases

Whether youre running a 15-person workshop or a 400-worker factory, you should know before buying whether a piece of equipment...
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Natural Rubber or Silicone Rubber?

Natural Rubber or Silicone Rubber?

Natural rubber or silicone rubber? In the world of lost wax casting, this question is hardly an academic one. The...
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Generation Z: Future Jewelry Consumers

Generation Z: Future Jewelry Consumers

Generation Z is tech savvy, frugal, philanthropic, and globally aware, and soon its members will be shopping at a jewelry...
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Casting Investment Powder Performances

Casting Investment Powder Performances

In each step of manufacturing jewelry, there are many factors that can adversely affect quality. Because of this, process control...
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Hollow Carat Gold Jewelry

Hollow Carat Gold Jewelry

There is always pressure to reduce the cost of manufactured items and carat gold jewellery is no exception to this...
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Identifying and Preventing Wax Defects

Identifying and Preventing Wax Defects

Manufacturer spend much time and money diagnosing defects that are believed to originate in the casting process, but actually occur...
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Jewellery Career Options

One of the most interesting things about the jewellery/metals field is that there are so many career options, so many...
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Differences between Managing and Micromanaging

Differences between Managing and Micromanaging

As a Business Strategy it is important to recognize the differences between managing and micromanaging. Read on for Andrea Hill's...
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Practical Guide to Mass Finishing  Jewelry

Practical Guide to Mass Finishing Jewelry

A microscopic and technical view of mass finishing presented in layman's terms. Understanding of mass finishing must start at the...
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Additive Manufacturing in the Jewelry Scene

Additive Manufacturing in the Jewelry Scene

Did you ever imagine you'd see the day when a finely woven mesh bracelet with thousands of tiny links could...
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Optimising Gold Alloys for Manufacturing

Optimising Gold Alloys for Manufacturing

Standard yellow gold alloys which are based on gold-silver copper can be used for many production processes. They could be...
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Hard 22 Carat Gold Alloy

Hard 22 Carat Gold Alloy

The jewellery market is looking for harder high-carat gold alloys that are more resistant to wear and scratching. Current research...
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Sample Consignment Agreement Contract

The following is Consignment Agreement contract. It is intended for information purposes only although if you wish to use it...
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Top 5 Indirect Manufacturing Costs

Top 5 Indirect Manufacturing Costs

In every business there are costs that are directly associated with producing a product. These direct costs are items such...
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Tumbling Technique Hints

When burnishing very detailed pieces, use stainless pins in your mixed shot. Don’t use them any other time because the...
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Working with Platinum & Platinum Designing

My skills as an artist combined with my years of experience at the bench have given me a practical approach...
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Basic Principles for Wet Tumbling on Gold Jewellery

Basic Principles for Wet Tumbling on Gold Jewellery

The correct use of modern, semi- automated finishing processes enables the manufacturer not only to reduce production costs, but also...
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Working with White Gold

Working with White Gold

White gold jewelry is a hot fashion trend that does not show signs of cooling off any time soon. Manufacturers...
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Branding, Copyrights and Trademarks

Given the competitive climate of the jewelry industry, copyrights and trademarks are important ways for manufacturers and retailers to set...
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Causes & Prevention of Defects in Wrought Alloys

Causes & Prevention of Defects in Wrought Alloys

Much of the recent literature on defects that occur in jewellery manufacture is focused on those occurring in lost wax...
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CAD/CAM: Jewelry Industry Benefits

CAD/CAM is a term that describes the two-part process of designing three-dimensional objects on a computer (CAD) and manufacturing them...
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Jewelers’ Repair Pricing Strategies

Jewelers’ Repair Pricing Strategies

Repair pricing strategies used by three featured jewelers.
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Laser Welders Impacting the Jewelry Industry

Laser Welders Impacting the Jewelry Industry

The one tool that allows each of these jewelers to do their jobs better is a laser welder, a technological...
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Pricing Formula for Jewelry Pieces

Pricing Formula for Jewelry Pieces

Editor’s Note: Pricing jewelry pieces is one of the most challenging things jewelry designers must do. Price a piece too...
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Electroforming Workshop Preparation

The size of the bath must correspond to the rectifier. You cannot have a huge bath and a small rectifier....
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Make Your Own Jewelry Displays

Make Your Own Jewelry Displays

Here are some photos of jewelry displays I have made. Bend galvanized sheet metal to make an acute sort of...
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E.U. Expands Gem Buying

E.U. Expands Gem Buying

The European Union’s gemstone imports were up a solid 7.5 percent to €412.5 million (US$544.4 million) in 2006, mostly on...
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Germany

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Germany

My trips to Germany in 1980 and 1982 were the most satisfying experiences in relation to my metalwork. They were...
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Project Management for Jewelers

I came up with this system to solve some production and prioritizing problems at a small custom jewelry store. We...
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What to Know About Heavy Metal Testing

What to Know About Heavy Metal Testing

Before you submit any jewelry item to a lab to test for heavy metals, you're going to need to do...
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Electroforming for Innovative Design

Electroforming for Innovative Design

There are four principal methods of producing jewellery today: Hand making, using traditional craft skills, Investment (Lost wax) Casting, Pressing...
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Communication for Customer Satisfaction

Communication for Customer Satisfaction

In the quest to get some insights into designing and marketing customized jewelry "customer whisperers" agreed that communication is the...
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Lighting for Jewelry Photography

The goal of this guide is to help you create images of your jewelry that you can be proud of,...
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Profitable Jewelry Design and Repair

A few years ago, Jewelers Circular Magazine reported that over 75% of all retail jewelers in America lose money on...
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Testing the New HD Patterns

Invented by Victor Joyner, a Chicagobased manufacturing jeweler, patented High Definition (HD) Patterns are made of a light-curing polymer material...
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Marketing Your Work as PMC or Fine Silver

Marketing Your Work as PMC or Fine Silver

The doors to the craft show have opened, and customers are beginning to make their way down the aisle. One...
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950 Palladium: Selling Points

950 Palladium: Selling Points

Designers and manufacturers have embraced 950 palladium alloys for a variety of jewelry manufacturing products. At the recent JA Jewelry...
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Gemstone Cut Value

Imagine, if you will, two colored stones. Both exhibit good color. Both are relatively inclusion free. Both tip the scale...
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Yellow-Green and Green Beryl

Yellow-green beryl has achieved 'desired gem' status with consumers just within the last few years. Museums were eager to acquire...
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Production Methods for Palladium Chain Making

Production Methods for Palladium Chain Making

As proudly proclaimed in its name, Balestra 1882 has manufactured high quality gold and platinum chain in Italy since 1882....
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Production Project Proposal

This is an example of a production project proposal involving the reproduction of two historically important buttons. This shows how...
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CAD/CAM Impact on Jewellery Fabrication

This paper looks at the impact computer technology, specifically CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacture), has had on jewelry fabrication...
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Platinum Fabricating & Stamping

This paper is aimed mainly at the small- to medium-sized jewelry manufacturing operations interested in working with platinum group metals....
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Perfect Finishing Tools and Techniques

Our castings can be flawless, our assembly precise, and our settings secure -- but let any surface go a bit...
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North American Sources for Equipment, Materials, etc.

This page offers a list of some useful North American Sources for Equipment, Materials, information, etc that would be very...
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From Limited to Mass Production of Jewelry

From Limited to Mass Production of Jewelry

Like many university-art-department-trained craftspeople of the 50s, I was educated to be one-of-a-kind snob, sneering at production people. They were...
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Jewelry Design and Manufacturing Process

Jewelry Design and Manufacturing Process

At GLJW it iss not unusual to see the sales staff wearing jewelers aprons and optivisors at one of the...
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The Metal Arts Guild of Ontario

The Metal Arts Guild of Ontario

In 1946 a small band of metal enthusiasts in Toronto, Canada, formed the Metal Arts Guild (MAG) "to promote and...
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Changing Metals Market Pricing

As you may have noticed (Id be astonished if you hadnt), prices for gold and silver, platinum too, are on...
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Avoiding a Zero-Sum Game

Avoiding a Zero-Sum Game

We use the term “zero-sum game” fairly often, but I suspect most people don’t stop and think about the meaning...
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The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement

"It is allowing machines to be our masters and not our servants that so insures the beauty of life nowadays."...
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Vermeil Jewelries

Vermeil Jewelries

Considering metals prices continue to be sky high, it's no surprise that plating companies' phones are ringing off the hook....
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Production Jewelers: Design & Industrial Techniques

Production Jewelers: Design & Industrial Techniques

This is the second in a series of articles about production jewelers. This installment concentrates on design versus saleability, the...
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The Jewelry of Barney Jette

The Jewelry of Barney Jette

Barney Jette and wife Nancy Ball have built a retail success story, solely focused on jewelry featuring Jettes design. The...
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Social Networking Tips for Jewelry Companies

The most trusted way for Jewelers, Artists, Craftsmen ' Metalsmiths to discover state-of-the-art products and services has fundamentally changed. Word-of-mouth has become a Metalsmiths most efficient way of learning about new products...
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Judging Juried Exhibition

Judging Juried Exhibition

The cry of the rejected: “Why?” is the loudest single continuing lament heard after every juried show. Even when juror’s...
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Himalayan Ruby Hunt

Himalayan Ruby Hunt

In February 2006, some unusual rubies began to appear in the gem market in Bangkok, Thailand. They were both attractive...
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A New Method for Gilding Silver

A New Method for Gilding Silver

A New Method for Gilding Silver A variety of methods for gilding silver surfaces have been used in the past....
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Proper Studio Light

Do not get caught in the dark - make certain your shop is well lit. In the jewelry shop, two...
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Innovative Approaches to Small Shop Success

Innovative Approaches to Small Shop Success

When most of us talk about innovation, we are talking about new tools and techniques. But innovation is not exclusively...
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Live And Let Die (Struck)

Live And Let Die (Struck)

In a manufacturing environment, there are numerous pitfalls and problems that will conspire to prevent successful completion of a job....
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3 Top Challenges for Jewelry Makers in 2014

3 Top Challenges for Jewelry Makers in 2014

Editor's Note: Looking ahead at the coming year, it's just as important to consider the challenges facing the jewelry industry...
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CAD/CAM Design and Model Making Services

CAD/CAM Design and Model Making Services

Retailers seeking designers and model makers for fulfilling custom orders or for developing new designs exclusive to their inventories have...
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Metalsmith Suite iPhone App Test

Metalsmith Suite iPhone App Test

The jewelry industry today is not what it was 15 or 20 years ago. From CAD/CAM to inventory control software,...
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Betty Helen Longhi Exhibition

Betty Helen Longhi Exhibition

It is refreshing to see a designer of Betty Helen Longhi's ability break away from the museum mentality and move...
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Cultural Influences Characteristics

Cultural Influences Characteristics

There are parallels in many areas: a carefree mix of style and cultural influences characterizes the overall trends in the...
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Display & Packaging

Display & Packaging

This segment from the 2017 MJSA Journal November issue is dedicated to metals, tools, software and more that aids jewelers...
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Return of Investment (ROI) Formula

Return of Investment (ROI) Formula

To determine whether or not to invest in a new piece of equipment, begin by considering the following questions - ...
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Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry

Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry

Colored Gemstones on Men’s Jewelry is becoming a trend and may as will be dominating men's fashion as noted by  ...
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Redefining Fine Jewelry

Redefining Fine Jewelry

Ask someone to define "fine jewelry" and you'll usually hear something about gold, platinum, diamonds, and other traditionally "precious" materials....
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6 Tips for Refining Returns

When it comes to your shop, cleanliness is next to godliness. At least it should be when you’re dealing with...
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Craftsmanship Improvement Method

This is a method to reduce technical problems which one repeatedly experienes. We all find during the learning process that...
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The Use of Marketing and Policy Instruments

The Use of Marketing and Policy Instruments

While firms in the US have busied themselves for decades with marketing goals and tasks, the topic was first taken...
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Claus Bury Architectonic Propositions

Claus Bury Architectonic Propositions

Claus Bury's rejection of his immediate past, a long standing European tradition in goldsmithing, and his defection to the fine...
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The New Jewelry Museum in Pforzheim

The New Jewelry Museum in Pforzheim

There is an excited feel to the atmosphere – the Jewelry Museum is preparing for the grand opening on March...
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Belgian Contemporary Jewelry Designers

Belgian Contemporary Jewelry Designers

The brain child of a private art-craft dealer, Denise Renard-Honhon, this exhibition presented 22 of Belgium's contemporary jewelry designers. The...
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From Art to Enameling Career

From Art to Enameling Career

I would first like to introduce myself. My name is Jaime Frechette and I am a studio artist from Cincinnati,...
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Moissanite Gemstone – Marketing Dynamite

It's called moissanite and it's described as a proprietary, nearcolorless, lab created gemstone. It's visually almost identical to diamond, and...
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Resolving Surface Irregularities in T-Splines

Resolving Surface Irregularities in T-Splines

T-splines, a plug-in for Rhinoceros CAD software and bundled with Matrix 7 and above, is a great modeling tool for...
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5 German Jewelers Marketing Strategies

5 German Jewelers Marketing Strategies

Five German jewelers who chose not to follow the traditional vocational training of "master goldsmith," but rather opted to study...
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Casting Gold to Platinum for the Jewelry Industry

The principle of bi-metal casting is really very simple: A wax model is invested, cast and finished. A secondary wax...
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Low-Cost Rapid Prototype Systems

Low-Cost Rapid Prototype Systems

Five years ago, if you wanted to buy an additive manufacturing machine to grow rapid prototype (RP) models in your...
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The Art of Individual Packaging

The Art of Individual Packaging

Etuis, cartons, boxes, sacks or caskets – there is a large selection of packagin. They are appreciated by goldsmiths and...
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Robert Lee Morris: The Business of Marketing Art Jewelry

Robert Lee Morris: The Business of Marketing Art Jewelry

Jewelry was never on his mind—at least not while he was studying art and anthropology in college. It was filmmaking...
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Separating Work and Home

Often craftspeople start out making craft objects in their living space, a kitchen, a living room, and sometimes continue working...
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The San Francisco Metal Arts Guild

The San Francisco Metal Arts Guild

When I returned from Europe in 1951, my friend Margaret de Patta called and invited me to join a group...
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The Department of Trier

The Department of Trier

The Department of Gemstone and Jewelry Design of the University of Applied Sciences of Trier is the only one of...
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Gemstone Supply Rough Times

Historically speaking, gemstone mining has always been hit or miss. When miners make a big strike, gemstones flood the market,...
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Business Software Tools

Business Software Tools

This segment from the 2017 MJSA Journal November issue is dedicated to metals, tools, software and more that aids jewelers...
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Suggested Tools from Karl Fischer

Ask for a catalog with an English supplement. Order by surface if a heavy order as shipping from Germany is...
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950 Palladium Bridal Jewelry Manufacturing

950 Palladium Bridal Jewelry Manufacturing

Retailers have been converting bridal inventories from white gold to palladium as manufacturers expand the selection of new palladium jewelry...
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CAD/CAM: Passion and Innovation

CAD/CAM: Passion and Innovation

Greg Stopka and his wife Lee began JewelSmiths 18 years ago with a belief they could succeed by providing jewelry...
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Form and Function in Booth Design

Form and Function in Booth Design

Selling jewelry at national craft fairs and trade shows has become a primary source of income for an increasing number...
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Maximizing Bench Work Profitability

Maximizing Bench Work Profitability

Jeffrey Johnson has two stores, 18 bench jewelers, and over 100 employees-and he still has time to work at the...
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The Artists as Curators and Critics

Fortunately, change is inevitable. Even for those individuals in the art establishment who assert that artists cannot and should not...
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3 Details of Jewelry Refinement

Quality matters to Michael Bondanza; he has been known to rebuild entire finished pieces -- some containing hundreds of precisely...
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2017 Top Jewelry Trends

2017 Top Jewelry Trends

Discover the 2017 Top Jewelry Trends in gold, silver, and platinum—and an update on the metals markets as compiled by...
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Improvements in Shop Security Technology

Improvements in Shop Security Technology

When you work with materials as valuable as precious metals and gemstones, you need to take measures to keep them...
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Samuel Yellin, Metalworker

Samuel Yellin, Metalworker

At a time marked by an international revival of the blacksmith's art, the Samuel Yellin exhibition at the Federal Reserve...
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Carrie Adell: Energies of Transformation

Carrie Adell: Energies of Transformation

Carrie Adell is perhaps best known for her jewelry which transforms common, familiar, organic and geometric objects and forms into...
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Basic Approach to Product Design

Design is a perennial issue for all who produce objects meant for a specific use, utilitarian, in contrast to objects...
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Production Jewelers: Marketing Production

Production Jewelers: Marketing Production

This is the third in a series of articles from Metalsmith about production jewelers. This installment concentrates on marketing production...
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Marketing Plan Worksheet

This checklist is a chance for you to go over your marketing business plan and be sure it is _up...
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Crafts Criticism

Crafts Criticism The following is reprinted from the 1992 monograph published by the Haystack Institute. Haystack Mountain School of Crafts...
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Fancy Color Diamonds

Fancy Color Diamonds

Coveted for their beauty and rarity, fancy color diamonds remain the hottest category in the diamond market. At gem and...
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Master Metalsmith Svetozar Radakovich

Master Metalsmith Svetozar Radakovich

This appreciation by Robert McDonald, former chief curator of the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California, was written...
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Recycling Gold from Electronics

With over 300 tonnes of gold used in electronics each year, end-of-life electronic equipment offers an important recycling potential for...
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Managing Quality Problems

Managing Quality Problems

When I was in grade school, I decided to enter a gardening contest for 4H. Though I had experience helping...
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The Ethics of Materials

The Ethics of Materials

I have always thought that if no other lesson had begun to seep through peoples' inertia and greed, that at...
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Jewelry Photography Film Types

The film that I’m going to recommend, and that I use myself, is 64 ISO Tungsten Ecktachrome film. It only...
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Depth of Field in Photography

Depth of field refers to the amount of the object that is in focus (the depth that is in focus)....
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Artists’ Jewelry in Galleries

Artists’ Jewelry in Galleries

What plan of action should jewelry designers follow if they wish to successfully promote their jewelry in galleries? Wait bashfully...
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Unreliable Fruit

Unreliable Fruit

The gemstone dealers in Ban Lung, the dusty capital of Ratanakiri province, Cambodia, work in a ramshackle group of storefronts...
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Blue Spinel Turning Heads

Well worth a fresh inspection under the loupe is some fine blue spinel currently on the market. An ancient group...
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Wendy Ramshaw Retrospective Exhibition

Wendy Ramshaw Retrospective Exhibition

This exhibit, which originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1982, will be traveling for two years...
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Hans Appenzeller’s Elegant Designs

Hans Appenzeller’s Elegant Designs

In April of 1983, a simple and relatively unpretentious store joined the ranks of the illustrious "boutiques" and other high-priced...
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Gemological Institute of America: Career Nurturing

Gemological Institute of America: Career Nurturing

The Gemological Institute of America, GIA, is the world’s leading center of excellence for all issues concerning gemstones and pearls....
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Effective Trade Show Follow-Up Campaign

Effective Trade Show Follow-Up Campaign

Research has long suggested that the majority of leads generated by trade shows never receive follow-up by company representatives. If...
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How to Refuse Big Orders

Refusing a big order may sound like a business mistake, but sometimes saying no pays. Sales do not equal profit,...
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Structuring for Efficiency in the Studio

Being more organized, and planning how you use your time will mean that you will spend less time on some...
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The Washington Guild of Goldsmiths

The Washington Guild of Goldsmiths

It all began in 1978. Gretchen Klunder-Raber issued an open invitation to all persons interested in metalsmithing in the Washington,...
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Robert Ebendorf and Ivy Ross Exhibition

Robert Ebendorf and Ivy Ross Exhibition

While this was not the first time that Ivy Ross and Robert Ebendorf have exhibited together, this exhibition showed clearly...
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Selling Natural, Unenhanced Gem Material

The marketing slogan 'All Natural' has been used for years to advertise products from cereal to shampoo. Now some gem...
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Communication with Jewelry Photography

Communication with Jewelry Photography

The photography of jewelry can achieve a whole lot more than just depicting products. It can focus on unique details...
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World Mining Report 2005 – The Middle East

Colored gemstone mining is a hard thing to pin down. The vast majority of mining is still done by independent,...
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3 Ways to Avoid Production Obstacles

3 Ways to Avoid Production Obstacles

Some production obstacles are unavoidable, but many can be overcome by addressing a few key areas of your business Whether...
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Laying Bricks for the Future

Laying Bricks for the Future

Dinner conversation at our home has always been lively, and we especially love the time we spend laying bricks. We...
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Charles Lewton-Brain Exhibition

Charles Lewton-Brain Exhibition

A goldsmith, not only a jeweler, Charles Lewton-Brain exhibits the competence and traditional skills accumulated through studies at the Nova...
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Jewellery in Transition

Jewellery in Transition

In early 1983 a call for entry was sent out across Canada for submissions to a multimedia, nonprecious jewellery exhibition...
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Resume Preparation for Gallery Presentation

The first questions to ask yourself when preparing a resume are: For whom is it intended? What do I want...
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German Jewelry: Freedom Through Precision

German Jewelry: Freedom Through Precision

Mention German craftsmanship, and we think of diligent Black Forest elves making precision cameras and automobiles. Ordinarily, "precision" connotes accuracy,...
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Goldsmithing in the Future

This article is a set of predictions for what the jewelers bench and workshop will experience in technological change in...
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2017 JCK Las Vegas Show Industry insights

2017 JCK Las Vegas Show Industry insights

The overarching theme in major presentations for the diamond and jewelry industry during the JCK Las Vegas Show in June...
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Metalsmith ’91 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

Metalsmith ’91 Fall: Exhibition Reviews

This article showcases various exhibitions in the form of collected exhibition reviews published in the 1991 Fall issue of the...
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Jewelry Design: New York State Artists Exhibition

Jewelry Design: New York State Artists Exhibition

For the "Jewelry Design" show at the Johnson Museum of Art, Louise Porter, Coordinator of Crafts, selected both jewelry and...
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Vertical Photography Set

Vertical Photography Set

This vertical photography set can be constructed inexpensively to photograph small objects such as jewelry and vessels from high angles....
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Students Photographing Jewelry

Students Photographing Jewelry

“The saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” could scarcely be more relevant that in the creative sector....
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Administering a Client Personality Test

Administering a Client Personality Test

When working with a client to discern their personal style, do you ever administer a personality test? If not, you...
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Stuart Devlin Retrospective Exhibition

Stuart Devlin Retrospective Exhibition

Stuart Devlin's exhibition offered the viewer a feast, a visit to an Aladdin's cave. The exhibition celebrated 25 years of...
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Successful Artists Collaboration

Successful Artists Collaboration

When Theo Janson and Vanessa Compton moved into the winding basement studio space on Toronto's Markham Street in May 1978,...
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Production Jewelers: Design, Marketing and Business

Production Jewelers: Design, Marketing and Business

This is the fourth in a series of articles from Metalsmith about production jewelers: design, marketing and business. ************************* Business...
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The State of Metalsmithing and Jewelry

This article is a continuing dialogue on the State of Metalsmithing and Jewelry by Donald Friedlich and Judith Mitchell with ...
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Cost-Effective, Small-Scale Jewelry Photography

Cost-Effective, Small-Scale Jewelry Photography

Good photos of your work, or pieces you take in for repair, are invaluable. These small-scale photos, however, can be...
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Online Purchases on Gemstones

Online Purchases on Gemstones

Not so long ago, it was considered impossible that any product, let alone high-end jewelry and gemstones, could be sold...
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Virtuoso Symposium Exhibition

Virtuoso Symposium Exhibition

It is possible to practice medicine and do it very successfully and happily without much familiarity with or interest in...
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6 Ingredients for Bestselling Jewelry Designs

To be successful, jewelry designers need more than just great designs - they need the right blend of six key...
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Tips on Learning Website Basics

In today's internet driven market place you need to have a website whether you are a small "Mom & Pop"...
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Photographing Small Art Objects

As a former staff photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sheldan Collins has photographed an extraordinary range of art...
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Atelier d’Artisanat du Centre-Ville

Atelier d’Artisanat du Centre-Ville

The Atelier d'Artisanat du Centre-Ville Inc., Montreal, Quebec, was founded in 1971 as an answer to rising problems of unemployment...
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Jewelers’ Stories About Working with Findings

Jewelers’ Stories About Working with Findings

When a commercial finding isn't quite right but making the component by hand seems like reinventing the wheel, creative modification...
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Forging Better Working Relationships with Subcontractors

Forging Better Working Relationships with Subcontractors

When searching for subcontractors, you can learn a lot from your friends in the jewelry industry. Many designers and jewelers...
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Vibratory Finishing Method

Vibratory Finishing Method

Chemical and mechanical processing work together to treat the vibratory finishing wastewater at Aro-Sac, increasing production, making the water reusable...
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Faster, More Efficient Laser Welders

Faster, More Efficient Laser Welders

Since their introduction to the jewelry industry, laser welders have been lauded for their speed, accuracy, and convenience of use....
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Ancient Inspirations: Contemporary Interpretations

When I first heard about the craft show "Ancient Inspirations: Contemporary Interpretations," I was impressed. The press information packet that...
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4 Tips to Boost Refining Returns

4 Tips to Boost Refining Returns

This article highlights some 4 tips to boost refining returns that will prove dollar wise and useful for you. You've...
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Cool Hunting in the Jewelry World

One of my roles for the last few years has been that of an innovation awards judge for MJSA. This...
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Gayle Saunders Exhibition

Gayle Saunders Exhibition

Of the various schools of thought about design, "less is more" has been one of the most enduring of the...
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Decision-making and the Subconscious

Decision-making and the Subconscious

Will consumers of the future differ from consumers of the 90’s? No, because people’s gene structures have hardly changed in...
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Galleries: The Vo Galerie

Galleries: The Vo Galerie

This is the first in a series on galleries that specialize in jewelry and metalwork. The Vo Galerie is a...
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Joan Michlin: Current Metalsmithing

Joan Michlin: Current Metalsmithing

Celebrating its move to a new location, Creative Metalsmiths featured the slick art jewelry of Joan Michlin. Her futuristic style...
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Production Jewelers: How They Survive

Production Jewelers: How They Survive

From time to time, Metalsmith will locus a series of articles on a particular aspect of jewelers. Beginning in this...
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Getting the Most Out of Trade Shows

MJSA's Mary Walek asked me to do a session called "Shop the Show" in New York. When I first read...
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CAD/CAM and Expertise of David Nytch

CAD/CAM and Expertise of David Nytch

David Nytch, proprietor of West ' Co. an independently owned jewelry store in Webster, NY is changing the way customers...
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New Generation Gallerists

What does it mean to be a gallerist today, especially one who deals exclusively in art jewelry? To find out,...
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2018 Top Gem and Jewelry Trends

2018 Top Gem and Jewelry Trends

In addition to miles of aisles of beautiful finished jewelry on display, the JCK Las Vegas show offered attendees the...
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World Mining Report 2005 – Central and South America

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Projects of Exploration: Visual Intricacy

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This is the fourth in a series of projects for students, created to provide a forum in Metalsmith for provocative...
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Komelia Hongja Okim Exhibition

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Translated into English, Korea means "chosen." Komelia Hongja Okim, a native of Korea, has faced a great many consequential choices...
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If you have never manufactured with platinum and you think that you are ready, if you manufacture with platinum, but...
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All five artists in this 5 Austrian Jewelers show were trained at the Hochschüle für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. While...
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This short paper offers a set of names to describe how the jewellery metals field is made up in terms...
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Internationally known designers and artists now come and go where up until 17 years ago mine workers and coal dust...
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Design Material Alternatives

Expanding the boundaries of conventional jewelry design through the use of unusual materials -- Titanium, Niobium, Copper, Metal clay, Acrylic,...
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10 Key Ingredient of Retail Success

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After 30 years in the jewelry industry working as a bench jeweler, sales professional, manager and owner, Michael Gerwig had...
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Good photos of your work, or pieces you take in for repair, are invaluable. These small-scale photos, however, can be...
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Matt Trimmer - The milling operation. With a quick adjustment of the table, you can cut grooves, line channels and...
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In this day and age, everyone knows the necessity of double-boxing items shipped; but then, do they? The boxes arrived;...
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Janice Kluge: Metalwork and Sculpture

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Janice Kluge's exhibition of metalwork and sculpture at the Birmingham Museum of Art was small in scale but rich in...
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In Spring 2005 I embarked on a Residency at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Elementary School in Pinellas Park, FL. The art...
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Metalwork: A National Invitational Exhibition

Metalwork: A National Invitational Exhibition

This show provided an overview of some of the new directions and esthetic concerns of metalsmiths in the 1980s. Curated...
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At most trade shows, you could stock up on enough pens, notepads, tote bags, and keychains to start a thriving...
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Goethe: Strong Alliances in Design

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“It is not good for people to be alone, particularly not to work alone. Rather, they need participation and stimulation...
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Curtis LaFollette Exhibition

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From the very cover of the announcement brochure, one sensed the struggles and conflicts represented in the work in this...
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Deborah Aguado: Use of Image and Enigma in Jewelry

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Stone, metal and space compose the careful balance in Deborah Aguado's work. Her first geometric formalisms constructed in metal were...
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Hart Jewelers Drive for Growth

Hart Jewelers Drive for Growth

Hart Jewelers in Grants Pass, OR has been a family owned store for over 50 years. Owner Tom Hart proclaims,...
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Made in the USA 2017

Made in the USA 2017

MADE IN THE USA: Where We Stand is an update on the jewelry industry’s efforts to promote homegrown products. It...
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The State of the Jewelry Industry

Trends and challenges in 2017 By the time you’re reading this article, the 2016 presidential election will be over. And...
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Jewelry Photography Communication

Jewelry Photography Communication

The photography of jewelry can achieve a whole lot more than just depicting products. It can focus on unique details...
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Marking Your Turf

Marking Your Turf

Given the competitive climate of the jewelry industry, copyrights and trademarks are important ways for manufacturers and retailers to set...
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All That Glitters Exhibition

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"All That Glitters," the first national competitive exhibition of fine art glass and jewelry in Arizona, featured the work of...
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Setting Higher Marketing Goals

Setting Higher Marketing Goals

I had an interesting insight just yesterday about marketing and promotion. We’ve been experimenting heavily with social media marketing for...
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The point is to survive and prosper as an artist or craftsperson. This means that one has to deal with...
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Web 2.0: Future of Communications

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In future, we may look back and say that the internet, with its seemingly endless possibilities for communication, changed the...
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Confidential Disclosure Form

This form may be used if you have an idea for a product and wish to approach a manufacturer. It...
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ICA Eyes Dubai

ICA Eyes Dubai

The 12th biennial International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA) Congress, held May 6-9 at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel & Suites...
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Commercial Enameled Art Projects

Commercial Enameled Art Projects

The show season had come and gone. With my kids still in school, I was unable to participate in the...
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Reinventing Retail with CAD

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Greg Stopka of JewelSmiths in Pleasant Hill , California , has been in the jewelry business since he was eight...
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The Test Market for Creative Ideas

The Test Market for Creative Ideas

The Forum Brand New – New Brand was given life five years ago at inhorgenta europe in Munich, while the...
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Nick Hodgson on buying Gemstones

Nick Hodgson on buying Gemstones

Nick Hodgson of www.astrogems.com explains how he buys gemstone crystal material on the streets in the gem mining areas of...
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How to Construct a Portable Photographic Studio

How to Construct a Portable Photographic Studio

The successful documentation of finished work is of vital concern to every artist. Excellent slides make better teaching tools, and...
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The Funding Conundrum

Business people look long and hard at their choices before acquiring an expensive piece of equipment for their companies. Price,...
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Modified CAD Design

Modified CAD Design

What do you do when you realize your virtual inventory is virtually impossible to manufacture? With so many jewelry designers...
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Some Thoughts on Pricing

While the marketing genius of Sam Walton may no longer be with us, his basic philosophy of providing the lowest...
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10 Steps to Achieving Great PR

For more than 30 years, Linda Goldstein Dunay has devoted her career to helping fine jewelry manufacturers reach their customers....
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We Are Strong Together

We Are Strong Together

The cliche is coming undone. Instead of laboriously asserting themselves on the market, as is apparently befitting of a genuine...
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GemBits – Gemstone Enhancements

Which is the best to buy: natural, enhanced, imitation, artificial or synthetic gems? The answer depends on how you plan...
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Juried Exhibitions

There is nothing that will block the path towards acceptance in a juried situation more quickly than a poor quality...
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World Mining Report 2005 – Africa

Colored gemstone mining is a hard thing to pin down. The vast majority of mining is still done by independent,...
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World Mining Report 2005 – North America

Colored gemstone mining is a hard thing to pin down. The vast majority of mining is still done by independent,...
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2 Tips for a Successful Jewelry Collection

2 Tips for a Successful Jewelry Collection

In times of increased price competition and global producers, cooperation with designers is also an important factor for large jewelry...
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State of the Art

State of the Art In 1968, a group of jewelers met "to organize professional designer craftsmen in metal arts." Attending...
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5 Holiday Casting Process Tips

The hazy days of summer aren’t too soon to begin thinking of designs for the holidays—and how to best cast...
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How to Use Time Fully

How to Use Time Fully

Always try to understand, that you are your own best enemy. Be nice to yourself when tackling the unknown. Realize...
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Risking Failure to Master New Things

Risking Failure to Master New Things

My grandson has spent the last several weeks learning how to walk. This new risk comes with a lot of...
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The Work of John Marshall

The Work of John Marshall

The success of John Marshall's art, as a practicing metalsmith, was evident in this impressive exhibition. Held in conjunction with...
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Recent Sightings: Jamie Bennett

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Promoting Contemporary Jewelry

Promoting Contemporary Jewelry

There are several organizations in Germany targeted at spreading and promoting contemporary jewelry design. They organize exhibitions and trade fair...
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Design for the Way Things Are: Survey of Ideas

Design for the Way Things Are: Survey of Ideas

New Jewelry Ideas from Other Realms of Experience “Meaning brings form with it; form is never without meaning” Johann Wolfgang...
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World Mining Report 2005 – Asia

Colored gemstone mining is a hard thing to pin down. The vast majority of mining is still done by independent,...
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The Next Step for Independent Business Development

The Next Step for Independent Business Development

The following interview between Akiko Busch and Etienne Perret and Michael Good was held as a result of the business...
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Risk and Reverence

Risk and Reverence In this portfolio I have brought together the work of a group of artists who while pursuing...
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Art Transportation Packing Methods

Art Transportation Packing Methods

Packing is hardly a glamorous subject. Yet, like labeling and billing, it remains one of those sine qua nons of...
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Sapphire Retail Sales Back with a Twist

If we needed more proof that our society is obsessed with celebrity style, we have only to look at the...
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Sphearrings: From Concept to Market

One of the newest earring findings to hit the market is showing a little earlobe midriffand it could turn the...
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Recent Sightings: Heart Pins

Recent Sightings: Heart Pins

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Small Objects Photography Check Lists

These are some check lists to use when preparing to phtograph objects.
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Recent Sightings: Functionalism

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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The Value of Good Team Communication

The Value of Good Team Communication

Anyone who’s played a team sport knows the value of good team communication. Without it, no matter the skills of...
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Displaying Watches and Jewelry

Displaying Watches and Jewelry

These days, great demands am placed on display materials and packaging. They must be inexpensive, part of an integrated communication...
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Fair Trade Promises Luxury

Fair Trade Promises Luxury

Gold, silver, platinum and gem stones are increasingly getting a bad name. Environmental catastrophes, financing of criminal syndicates or warlords...
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Gem Production Update

Morgan Beard, the editor-in-chief of Colored Stone magazine examines the current world mining production of Ruby ' Sapphire, Emerald, Tanzanite,...
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Revolutionary PolishPlus Process

Revolutionary PolishPlus Process

The revolutionary PolishPlus process with MiracleMedia is a new mass finishing technology developed by Peter Richardson of Aurum Plus Resource...
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Best Laid Business Plans

I love a good road trip. In fact, I love them so much that I have created categories for them....
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The Future of the Jewelry Industry in 2016

Editor's Note: This following is an excerpt from Looking Ahead, which appeared in the December 2015 issue of MJSA Journal....
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Celebrating a New Metals Order

Celebrating a New Metals Order The theme of this year's SNAG conference, held in Cincinnati Ohio, "Celebrating a New Metals...
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World Mining Report 2005 – Eastern Europe

Colored gemstone mining is a hard thing to pin down. The vast majority of mining is still done by independent,...
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Make What You Love (you’ll sell more of it)

Make What You Love (you’ll sell more of it)

In this live seminar clip, Dr. David Weiman of MarketingJewelry.com explains why making what you love is so important for...
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The Future of American Crafts

American crafts are under-going self-examination. Expressed in countless ways, varying from anxiety to optimism, the observation that the field is...
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5 Tips to Improve Your Social Media Presence

5 Tips to Improve Your Social Media Presence

Are you reminding the types of people who like your jewelry that you’re online, active, and open for business - ...
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The Art of Self Promotion

The Art of Self Promotion

The art of self-promotion is less about celebrity than it is about perseverance. Breaking into print doesn't take a magic...
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Producing Semi-Fabricated Platinum Products

It is also vital to know the basic forms of semi-fabricated Platinum product that are generally available and how to...
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Revising Milled CAD/CAM Models

Revising Milled CAD/CAM Models

I have great respect for the capabilities of CAD/CAM technology, and Ive seen some absolutely amazing pieces generated by it....
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The Psychology of Slowness

For many years the name of Kenneth F. Bates has graced the covers of books on design, enameling and a...
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Embracing Your Inner Entrepreneur

I love beginnings. The beginning of each season, the beginning of a new project, and of course, the beginning of...
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The Check Is in the Mail

The Check Is in the Mail

Pay your idea bank regularly to keep your business thriving   We have a goofy tradition in our family in...
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Fads and Fallacies: First Impressions

Fads and Fallacies: First Impressions

As trite as it might sound, we still form our opinions about people as a result of "first impressions." In...
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Subtle Form of Seduction

Subtle Form of Seduction

“It’s what’s inside that counts,” so the saying goes. However, the importance of packaging for watches and jewelry is often...
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Saving Money on Common Repairs

Every penny mattered-and that was in the 1980s when gold was $300 an ounce. These days, when $1,100 is the...
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4 Marketing Tips for Mobile Customers

4 Marketing Tips for Mobile Customers

Since the advent of the Information Age, the marketing landscape has undergone a radical transformation. Pre-internet, businesses used to be...
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Chain and Findings Forecast

Chain and Findings Forecast

Jewelry is truly the sum of its parts. And of those parts, chain and findings play especially important roles. In...
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1984 SNAG Conference Review

On the second day of the 1984 Society of North American Goldsmith's conference held in June in New York City,...
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Media Relations: Bridge to Potential Customers

Media Relations: Bridge to Potential Customers

If newspapers, magazines or even TV or radio stations ask jewelry designers for a press portfolio, many have no idea...
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Deficits in Jewelry Design Marketing

While firms in the US have busied themselves for decades with marketing goals and tasks, the topic was first taken...
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Discover New Customers

Discover New Customers

Consumers still want to buy and wear jewelry. You’re just going to have to leap to reach them.  Confront the...
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1994 SNAG Conference

1994 SNAG Conference

SNAG '94 was a patchwork of voices. The conference theme, "Transformations: Personal Artistic Evolution", was dedicated to the individual creative...
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Infiltrating Colombia’s Shady Emerald Mines

Infiltrating Colombia’s Shady Emerald Mines

Money and Madness (1998) - Penetrating the shady world of Colombia's emerald dealers, we meet private armies and pistol-packing miners....
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How to Keep Your Business Flexible

How to Keep Your Business Flexible

Being move-ready is a desirable trait for every entrepreneur. Consumers change, markets change, and if we want to stay in...
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Ganoksin: Knowledge is There to be Shared

Ganoksin: Knowledge is There to be Shared

There are two camps among goldsmiths: On the one hand we have those who on no accounts want to pass...
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Express Yourself

Express Yourself Ideology controls thought. All too often, we uncritically accept propositions as if they were true, and examine neither...
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M. Avigail Upin: Current Work Exhibition

M. Avigail Upin: Current Work Exhibition

M. Avigail Upin's carefully constructed work displays a cool and impeccable cleanness of style, with silver the dominant material. Her...
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The Future of the Jewelry Industry in 2015

No one has a crystal ball to predict the future, which can make business planning a challenge. To help make...
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How Story Telling Helps You Sell More of Your Jewelry

How Story Telling Helps You Sell More of Your Jewelry

In this live seminar clip, Dr. David Weiman of MarketingJewelry.com explains why having a story about your jewelry is so...
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Dimensions: A Question of Space and Time

Dimensions: A Question of Space and Time

80 x 120 cm is the size of the sales space per product that finds its way from the ‘design:palette’...
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Keynote Speech

Keynote Speech

Years ago, I saw a neatly penciled graffiti on a bathroom wall proclaiming that 'The artists will save the world'....
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Activism and Advocacy

The Future Perfect: Activism and Advocacy was given as an oral presentation at “Celebrating a New Metals Order,” The 1993...
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Recent Sightings: Craft Identity

Recent Sightings: Craft Identity

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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The Goldsmith & The Grape Exhibition

The Goldsmith & The Grape Exhibition

I thought this was a dazzling exhibition, even before I had a glass of wine. It was definitely a step...
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The Rush Job From Hell

The Rush Job From Hell

In the jewelry business we all get rush jobs but I think this one may just get the prize for...
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The Use of Gold in Industrial Applications

The Use of Gold in Industrial ApplicationsA presentation by George Milling-Stanley of the World Gold Council.
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The Limbic System Part 4

The Limbic System Part 4

A match made in heaven: platinum and diamonds. As humans, we are in the habit of blindly accepting our visual...
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Love’s Labors Lost

Love’s Labors Lost

One of the things that unites practicing jewelers – especially those who given their lives over to the craft –...
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Christine Clark and Dennis Leudeman Exhibition

Christine Clark and Dennis Leudeman Exhibition

This exhibition of two sculptors at the Merritt Gallery constituted the first major showing of work by either artist. An...
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Successful e-Commerce Ventures

The ongoing debate over the necessity of e-commerce in the jewelry industry is coming to a close. From small shop...
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World Mining Report 2005

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Turning Down a Project

Turning Down a Project

There's nothing like landing a new client. Whether you're a large manufacturer or a bench jeweler in a home studio,...
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Making an Enamel Advertising Poster

Making an Enamel Advertising Poster

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4 Key Jewelry Trends 2015

4 Key Jewelry Trends 2015

Amid the holiday craziness that will be descending on the industry this month, it’s important to take time and give...
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Gallery Directors’ Role on Metalsmithing

In the world of fine art, galleries wield enormous power. Galleries such as Castelli, Knoedler and Marlborough, through the artists...
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Fools gold?

Fools gold?

ABC News expose of the underbelly of the cash-for-gold business
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Recent Sightings: Quality Jewelry

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Counterbalance

I have just returned from an eight month journey throughout Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, a large portion of which was...
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Metalsmith ’84 Fall: Health Hazards Q&A’s

Linda Weiss-Edwards provides a list of Onsite Consultation for Artists and Schools from each state in the United States in...
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Classic Designer Diamond Engagement Rings

Classic Designer Diamond Engagement Rings

Style expert, Mal Pearson, discusses the latest engagement ring trends in these stunning Sylvie Collection rings
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Selling Jewelry in a Tough Economy

Selling Jewelry in a Tough Economy

Dr. David Weiman of MarketingJewelry.com explains the keys to selling more of your handcrafted jewelry when times are tough.
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Competition and Selling Handcrafted Jewelry

Competition and Selling Handcrafted Jewelry

In this video, Dr. Weiman of MarketingJewelry.com discusses an article in the Crafts Report about competition and whether or not...
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The Case for Gold as a Practical Investment

The Case for Gold as a Practical InvestmentA presentation by George Milling-Stanley of the World Gold Council.
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When Production had a Good Name

In researching this project, Don Friedlcih and I would often encounter craftspeople – whose business clearly entailed making multiples of...
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New Palette for Fine Art Students

New Palette for Fine Art Students

The College of Art, which is located in the heart of the capital city of India, is one of the...
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The Phoenix Arises

The Phoenix Arises School days! The heavy responsibility of the sacred trust of making a positive difference in the lives...
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The Limbic System Part 3

The Limbic System Part 3

Out of every 100 companies, 90 do not make it pas their 60th birthday and 40% of newly established companies...
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Recent Sightings: Harper’s Lecture

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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1983 Artpark Experience

1983 Artpark Experience

About 30 miles north of Buffalo, New York, less than 10 miles downstream from Niagara Falls, is a unique facility...
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Studio Multiples/Portfolio

Studio Multiples/Portfolio The works presented in this portfolio were selected through a challenging jurying process. Space constraints forced us to...
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Recent Sightings: Buzzwords

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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Recent Sightings: Fair in Baltimore

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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World Mining Report 2005 – Australia

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Valentine’s Day Marketing

Valentine’s Day Marketing

Dr. David Weiman of MarketingJewelry.com, an expert on the psychology of marketing and selling handcrafted jewelry, gives solid, sales-building tips...
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Promotional Items and Displaying Jewelry

Promotional Items and Displaying Jewelry

These days, great diamonds are placed on display materials and packaging. They must be inexpensive, part of an integrated communication...
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Small Degree of Validity

Since the postwar emergence of contemporary metalsmithing and jewelry-making in North America there has generally been a distinction drawn between...
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Charge More for Your Jewelry

Charge More for Your Jewelry

In this video, Dr. David Weiman of MarketingJewelry.com explains -- in just words! -- why you should charge more for...
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What Does a Recession Imply for the Gold Price?

What Does a Recession Imply for the Gold Price?

What Does a Recession Imply for the Gold Price? A presentation by Natalie Dempster of the World Gold Council.
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The Tactical Case For Gold

The Tactical Case For GoldA presentation by George Milling-Stanley of the World Gold Council.
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Where Jewelry Resides

Where Jewelry Resides

When you were a child, did you also have a secret trove in which you collected your favorite things? Stones...
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Jewelry on the Net Opportunity or Debacle

Jewelry on the Net Opportunity or Debacle

Within just ten years of Internet history, the range of jewelry on offer on the Net has grown to a...
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Musings on the Future

Musings on the Future Despite all the talk about the information super highway, this Internet thing started, for me, when...
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Recent Sightings: Crafts Culture

This article series from Metalsmith Magazine is named “Recent Sightings” where Bruce Metcalf talks about art, craftsmanship, design, the artists,...
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There Must Be a Pony (Remaining Optimistic in Tough Times)

There Must Be a Pony (Remaining Optimistic in Tough Times)

I created this video to support all of the amazing jewelry makers I know who may be discouraged in a...
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Gold – The Supply Side

Gold - The Supply SideA presentation by George Milling-Stanley of the World Gold Council.
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