Back in junior high school, I fell in love with bohemian turquoise jewelry and started frequenting bead stores, amassing stones and beads to make necklaces that looked cheaply boho chic. Decades later ...

Making jewelry your own jewelry is a fun, creative hobby, but it can be hard to know where to begin. A jewelry-making kit can be a good investment for beginning and experienced crafters alike, and the ...

Homemade jewellery gets a bad press. Hammered tin cuffs, driftwood necklaces, shells picked up off the beach and inexpertly strung together-the overall effect can be more Madame Arcati than Madame de ...

The school offers a robust curriculum of jewelry-making classes focused on the basics of metal smiting (think soldering, setting stones) to contemporary knotting/stringing to carving more sculptural ...

The annual celebration of love is upon us, and what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than to give your loved one the perfect gem in the perfect setting? But how does such beautifully designed ...

A creative business endeavor to make jewelry needs the disciplined creation of a business plan, just like any other business. The process of developing a jewelry business plan will flesh out ideas and ...

When David Yurman was in his 20s, he made a necklace for his then-girlfriend, Sybil Kleinrock. A sculptor, Yurman welded together diabolical bronze figurines into a piece he called the “Dante.” “I ...

Jewellery marketed with 0% making charges often includes embedded stones or embellishments priced well above their real value, offsetting any waived fees.