- "Jewellery design is the art or profession of designing and creating jewellery."
The various techniques used in jewelry design, such as wire wrapping, beading, and metalwork.
Jewelry Making Tools: Introduction to the tools used in jewelry making, their function, and usage.
Wire Wrapping: Learn how to use wires of different gauges to create intricate designs and shapes.
Metal Stamping: An introduction to the art of metal stamping, its equipment, and techniques.
Soldering: Learning how to join different parts of a metal piece using soldering techniques.
Hammering Techniques: Introduction to hammering techniques used to shape and texture metals.
Setting Techniques: Learn how to set stones or other objects in metal to create jewelry pieces.
Beading Techniques: Learn how to use beads to create different patterns, designs and how to incorporate them into your jewelry designs.
Cold Connections: Learn how to connect metal pieces without using heat or solder.
Enameling: Introduction to the art of enameling, different types of enameling techniques, and their application in jewelry design.
Metal Clay: Introduction to the use of metal clay in jewelry design, its types, and techniques.
Casting Techniques: Learn how to create molds and cast metal objects for your jewelry pieces.
Mixed Media: Exploring the use of different materials that can be incorporated into your jewelry designs.
Design Theory: Learn jewelry design principles like balance, proportion, and rhythm to create aesthetically pleasing jewelry designs.
Color Theory: Learn how colors work together, the color wheel, and how to use color in jewelry design.
Texture and Surfaces: Introduction to different textures and surfaces that can be created using metalworking techniques.
Stone & Gem Identification: Learn how to identify different types of stones and gems that are used in jewelry making.
Art History: Explore the history of jewelry and its use in different cultures to gain inspiration for your designs.
Jewelry Photography: Learn how to showcase your designs using photography techniques, lighting, and presentation.
E-commerce: Introduction to online platforms for selling jewelry and ways to establish an online brand.
Costing and Pricing: Learn how to determine the cost of materials and labor, and setting prices for your jewelry pieces in a competitive market.
Casting: Creating a mold and pouring molten metal, creating the desired shape.
Enameling: Applying powdered glass, then heating it to fuse.
Fabrication: Cutting, shaping, and joining individual pieces.
Filigree: Using thin metal wire to create intricate designs.
Granulation: Placing small beads of metal onto a surface and heating them.
Lost-wax casting: Creating a wax model, coating it with a mold material, then melting the wax and pouring molten metal into the cavity.
Repoussé: Hammering designs into metal from the front and the back.
Soldering: Joining metal pieces with a molten metal or alloy.
Texturing: Creating textures on the surface of the metal.
Wirework: Shaping metal wire into designs.
- "It is one of civilization's earliest forms of decoration, dating back at least 7,000 years to the oldest-known human societies in Indus Valley Civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt."
- "The art has taken many forms throughout the centuries, from the simple beadwork of ancient times to the sophisticated metalworking and gem-cutting known in the modern day."
- "Design concepts are rendered followed by detailed technical drawings generated by a jewellery designer, a professional who is trained in the architectural and functional knowledge of materials, fabrication techniques, composition, wearability and market trends."
- "Traditional hand-drawing and drafting methods are still utilized in designing jewellery, particularly at the conceptual stage. However, a shift is taking place to computer-aided design programs."
- "Whereas the traditionally hand-illustrated jewel is typically translated into wax or metal directly by a skilled craftsman, a CAD model is generally used as the basis for a CNC cut or 3D printed 'wax' pattern to be used in the rubber molding or lost wax casting processes."
- "For example, 24K gold was used in ancient jewellery design because it was more accessible than silver as source material."
- "The earliest documented gemstone cut was done by Theophilus Presbyter (c. 1070–1125), who practiced and developed many applied arts and was a known goldsmith."
- "Early jewellery design commissions were often constituted by nobility or the church to honor an event or as wearable ornamentation."
- "Within the structure of early methods, enameling and repoussé became standard methods for creating ornamental wares to demonstrate wealth, position, or power."
- "These early techniques created a specific complex design element that later would forge the Baroque movement in jewellery design."
- "Traditionally, jewels were seen as sacred and precious; however, beginning in the 1900s, jewellery has started to be objectified."
- "Throughout the 20th century jewellery design underwent drastic and continual style changes: Art Nouveau (1900–1918), Art Deco (1919–1929), International Style & organicism (1929–1946), New Look & Pop (1947–1967), Globalization, Materialism, and Minimalism."
- "Jewellery design trends are highly affected by the economic and social states of the time."
- "The boundaries of styles and trends tend to blur together and the clear stylistic divisions of the past are harder to see during the 20th century."