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There is much we don't know about the history of women jewelers. But we know they were designing and making jewelry, even running businesses, back to the mid-19th century. Here are just a few women who paved the way.
Earliest use of photos in jewelry were locket-style portraits, an extension of...
Most of us know by now that Dali, Calder, even Picasso designed...
Since the beginning of time, it’s been used as a symbol of...
While musicians and poets were rebelling against the status quo in Greenwich...
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Do you have post-divorce wedding or engagement rings burning a hole in your jewelry box? Join the club. About 43 percent of once-married people have been divorced by the time they’re in their fifties. Nearly 800,000 people divorced in the U.S. alone in 2017. That’s a lot of rings loaded with emotional baggage and raw material. Maybe it’s time to do something with those rings. I have one of those rings. Sometimes when I open my ring drawer, light glints […]...
Baiyang Qiu combines the precision of industrial design with a love of organic form to create her unique award-winning jewelry.
An Alabama art jeweler began making jewelry from used motorcycle inner tubes and coffee pods, and it ended up on runway models and fashion magazines.
In this day of mass production, with high-end craft galleries shuttering at an alarming rate, studio jewelers feel a mounting pressure to rely on the well-made production...
Grant Robinson designs and constructs kinetic jewelry, usually in the form of animals or plants that spring to life when you push their buttons. His pieces are...
Carving and setting opal is like sculpting stained glass. Not only is the opal fragile and unpredictable, it dictates form. Making jewelry from it requires patience, flexibility, and a taste for living on the edge.
World’s largest aquamarine carving, the 10.363-carat Dom Pedro, goes on display Thursday...