If you think building a career as a jewelry designer is challenging today, imagine what it was like 50 years...
Calder began making jewelry for his sister’s dolls at age 6, and produced 1,800 pieces in his lifetime, always carrying pliers and wire in his pockets. “I think best in wire,” he once said.
When I was a kid, I went door to door selling jewelry my brother made. We were the new kids on the block. He was shy. I was curious. We both wanted some cash.
It’s every jeweler’s worst nightmare – and it happens all too often. Janine DeCresenzo and Megan Clark had their inventory...
Any designer who wants to stand out at the AGTA Spectrum Awards has to start with world-class gems and then do something astonishing with them. Here are tanzanite, tourmaline, topaz, and boulder opal like you've never seen them.
Do you have post-divorce wedding or engagement rings burning a hole in your jewelry box? Join the club. About 43...
Baiyang Qiu combines the precision of industrial design with a love of organic form to create her unique award-winning jewelry.
How do you know the jewelry you're buying was made without harming people or planet? Ask the right questions.
As jewelry models go, no one is more available than you. Ask anyone who posts jewelry regularly on Instagram. Most...
A ring containing a portrait of Dora Maar made for her by Pablo Picasso in the 1930s is expected to fetch half a million at Sotheby's this month. That's a lot more than it sold for at the 1998 estate sale in Paris following Maar's death. No one knew Picasso had made jewelry by hand but the news was overshadowed by those paintings.
Ananda Khalsa launched her career as a jewelry designer while living in Boulder, CO, where Todd Reed was an early...
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.
Passing on tricks of the trade for both design and craftsmanship is a crucial part of maintaining high standards for...
A good model shot can mean a sale. A really good one can lead to multiple sales. Just ask Alysia Sánchez Melnikov whose Etsy shop took off after she started posting photos of herself modeling her jewelry - with some help from her husband and business partner.
Only three years after graduating college, Niki Grandics of ENJI Studios has racked up a pile of awards and grants for her edgy but wearable handmade jewelry. Here's the backstory of this talented emerging designer.