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Learn the history of early jewelry design, learn from the masters as they teach you the skills to create your own beautiful jewelry. This CD contains a collection of 13 (thirteen) vintage How To Books on one Gift Quality DVD.

A jewelry designer is defined as a person who renders, creates, and models original Jewelry creations. By profession this person would be trained in the knowledge of metal-smithing and design. Historically jewelry designers originated as goldsmiths in the cultural aspects of Etruscan Civilization and became more dominant through ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Today's jewelry designers are often professionals with knowledge of Gemology, Metalsmithing and Rendering in order to cater to large volumes of consumers as well as private clients. These designs can be initially created in a special jewelers model wax or even in metal (silver) in order to create a mold where an unlimited number of these same pieces can be cast in gold, silver or platinum.



DVD contains the following 13 (thirteen) titles:

:: 1884 A History of English Goldsmiths and Plateworkers
~ Their marks stamped on plate, copied in facsimile from celebrated examples; and the earliest records preserved at Goldsmith's hall, London, with their names, addresses, and dates of entry, 2500 illustrations, also historical accounts of the Goldsmiths' company and their hall marks; their regalia; the Mint; closing of the Exchequer; goldsmith-bankers; shop signs; a copious index, &c. &c., preceded by an introductory essay on the goldsmiths' art
~ 300 pages.

:: 1886 The Goldsmith's Handbook
~ Having been frequently applied to by goldworkers and others, with reference to certain difficulties relating to their trade, which they were unable to overcome mechanically, the idea presented itself to the mind of the Author, that a work practically treating on the Uses and Applications of Gold, having special regard to the business of the goldsmith and jeweller, would be a useful auxiliary to the artificer also, by affording him a constant means for consultation and instruction.
~ 346 pages.

:: 1894 Silversmith's Art and Ecclesiastical Metal Work
~ Vintage catalog from the Benziger Brothers Jewelry Factory
~ 64 pages

:: 1902 Modern Design in Jewellery & Fans
~ John Ruskin has laid down some broad and simple rules which are especially applicable to DESIGN IN JEWELLERY AND FANS. He says, "Never encourage the manufacture or any article not absolutely necessary, in the production of which invention has no share." And, again, "Never encourage imitation, or copying of any kind, except for the sake of preserving records of great works."
~ 228 pages.

:: 1908 Catalogue of the Blackborne Museum Collection
~ Laces and beautiful old textiles, historical costumes, antique jewelry and fans, extraordinary regal laces, rich embroideries, ecclesiastical vestments and other interesting objects.
~ 188 pages.

:: 1908 Jewellery
~ Illustrations for some of the worlds most beautiful antique jewelry designs.
~ 580 pages.

:: 1910 The Arts and Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers
~ This volume contains the substance of the Rhind Lectures delivered by the writer before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in the Spring of 1910. The aim of it is to afford a general introduction to the study of the art of our Teutonic forefathers, in the eventful period in which they overthrew the Roman Empire of the West, and began to found the political system of the modern world.
~ 344 pages.

:: 1912 Silverwork & Jewelry
~ A text-book for students and workers in metal, this volume of a series of Editor's Handbooks on the Artistic Crafts, it Preface will be well to state what are our general aims. In the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of workshop practise, from the points of view of experts who have critically examined the methods current in the shops, and putting aside vain survivals, are prepared to say what is good workmanship, and to set up a standard of quality in the crafts which are more especially associated with design.
~ 542 pages.

:: 1917 Jewelry Making and Design
~ An illustrated text book for teachers, students of design, and craft workers in jewelry
~ 514 pages.

:: 1917 The Jewelry Department
~ A wonderful treatise on the retail side of jewelry.
~ 198 pages.

:: 1919 Antique Jewellery and Trinkets
~ The favourable reception accorded to the two first volumes of the Home Connoisseur Series Antique Furniture and Old Pottery and Porcelain assures me that there are many who will welcome this volume, which treats upon a subject which is interesting to every home connoisseur. There is a peculiar charm about the jewellery of former generations, those things men and women have treasured and worn, or fondly handled as having had personal touch with those who died long ago.
~ 470 pages.

:: 1921 English Jewellery from the Fifth Century A.D. to 1800
~ A history of jewelry with many illustrations. For the purposes of this book jewellery has been defined as including all ornaments of wrought or jewelled metal actually worn on the person. This definition excludes such jewelled objects as croziers, snuff-boxes, and the like, that are not worn but carried. Limits of time are also necessary, and for these the V century A.D. and the year 1800 have been chosen, as marking definite breaks in the artistic history of the country.
~ 276 pages.

:: How To Make Jewelry ~ Practical instructions from a practical manufacturing jeweler. With eight chapters on how to make plated jewelry.
~ 323 pages.



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