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The Arts : Jewelry Design

                                      Designing and making your own jewelry is much easier than you think. All of the important jewelers you see today started making  and playing around with their jewelry designs at some point in their life. On the web there are dozens of terrific resources that will show you step by step how to get started and how you can learn new tips and techniques that will improve the quality of your work. Below you can also find some forums for asking questions and also a series of books that are very in-depth and can help you through the more advanced stages.

Good Luck and Have Fun!

Karen Davis

Learn About Jewelry Design Online

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About - Artiles - Over a dozen jewelry design articles with trends and step by step how to instructions for beginners.

Wigjig -  Here you can find the three basic themes for all beginners, what tools, supplies, and basic techniques do you need for jewelry making. There is also a useful three part section on earring, bracelet, and necklace design.

Jewelers Bench - This is one of the most comprehensive of all the sites, with dozens of in depth articles arranged in sections from beginners corner, history, design to more advanced issues such as mass production, business and marketing etc.. Highly recomended.

Jewelry Making Blog - This blog is focused on Jewelry making and has constant updates and new how to articles. Very well made with pictures and step by step tips.

Jewelry-Making.com - This series of articles covers instruction and materials. The topics are somewhat limited but they do cover some interesting subjects not available anywhere else.

Jewelry Design Forums

There are four Jewelry Making forums below which are good for asking beginner or more advanced questions. They do now have a ton of traffic so sometimes things move a bit slow, if somebody finds a more active forum please contact us.

Bella Online Jewelry Design Forum About - Jewelry Design Forum
Chic Chat Jewelry Design Forum

Jewelry Making.com Forum

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The Best Books on Jewelry Design

While the above articles and resources are random and don't follow a linear direction, these books are very comprehensive, in depth, and easy to follow. Some of the books overlap but there are tons of terrific ones to choose from.

 

  

Book List: How to become an Independent Jeweler.

 

  

Book List: Outstanding Book on Jewelry Making.

 

 

  

Book List: Make your own Jewelry.

 

 

  

Book List: Become a Maverick Jewelry Artisan 

 

Buy Jewelry Design Equipment Online

Buy Materials Online and Make Your Own Jewelry

I recommend Create for Less.com because they have a wide variety of supplies, from metal, clay, beads...etc and their prices are very goo.

 

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