There many ways to set stones including; bezels (hand-fabricated or pre-made), claws, flush set, tension set, channel, etc. but knowing how to set your stones in hand-fabricated bezels is an essential technique in metalsmithing. This technique is not difficult, [ … ] Read More
What Is Water Casting and How Is It Done?
Humans have been casting metal for the past 5000 years! Our world without casting is unimaginable! Casting has also been used in jewellery making for thousands of years. One of the beauties of Water Casting is that it’s a [ … ] Read More
These Are A Few Of Our Favourite Things!!
“Pliers and files and hammers and bench blocks, Flush cutters, torches and wood doming blocks, Tumbling ear wires and the joy that it brings, These are a few of my favourite things” ( With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein! [ … ] Read More
What Is Fold Forming?
Fold forming is one of the most beautiful ways to sculpt metal into graceful shapes. This technique gives you the ability to transform flat metal into flowing, three dimensional shapes that have a natural, organic quality to them. The [ … ] Read More
Myrna Giesbrecht – One at a Time, One of a Kind
Meet Myrna, I am an artist. I knit, sew, and create mixed media jewelry. The mediums are listed in that order because that’s how it happened. I started to knit as a child, so long ago and far away that [ … ] Read More
Lindsay Gibson – Moonstone River Jewellery
Meet Lindsay, I am so happy that you’ve stopped by to say hi : ) I believe that happiness and healing are possible for everyone! That is why I create jewellery with love and healing blessings for you! Each [ … ] Read More
Christine Dibble – Bodacious Butterflies
Meet Christine: Christine started hand-making Bodacious Beads woven beaded jewelry in 2011, in a search for alternative forms of creative self-expression. Bodacious Butterflies butterfly wing jewelry came to be in 2012 after taking a stained glass art class from Sunlight [ … ] Read More
Kim Naylor – Keeping Afloat
Meet Kim: Kim Naylor was born and raised in Prince Rupert on the north coast of British Columbia. Her maternal grandfather was a fisherman for over 40 years and collected glass fishing floats. Kim inherited her fascination with precious [ … ] Read More
Inspiration
“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and my staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even [ … ] Read More
Kathy Brandon – Artisan/Workingsilver.com Owner/Operator
Meet Kathy: Kathy was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in the tiny hamlet of Silverton, in an area called the Silver Valley in northern Idaho where her father was the Superintendent of the Sunshine Silver [ … ] Read More
What Tools Should I Use for Forming and Dapping?
We jewellers are a crafty lot. We produce some pretty amazing jewellery pieces and forming helps us give that wow factor to our jewellery! Mandrels are necessary in every jeweller’s toolbox. There are mandrels for bezels, rings, bracelets and [ … ] Read More
What is Pickle Anyway, and How Do I Use It?
When I say pickle, what is the first thing that springs to mind? Lovely, crunchy dills and onions or a crockpot of simmering sodium bisulfate? If it’s the latter, you are most certainly a jeweller! Even if it’s not [ … ] Read More