Not all designers work individually with couples to customize wedding rings, but sometimes galleries that represent those designers will serve...
A year or two out of college, these jewelry artists are winning awards for creativity and craftsmanship, even on a budget. How do they do it? With the perfect saw and a portable photography studio.
It’s easier than ever to put up an ecommerce site these days, with all the self-hosting options, free templates and...
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.
For Joanna Gollberg, tools are the root of all invention, from rattle rings to moss-covered bracelets and brooches that sprout gemstone buds.
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.
If metalsmiths are the sculptors of the jewelry world, attracted to form and texture, enamellists are the painters, obsessed with...
Joyce Scott’s beaded jewelry is often figurative, and not in a subtle way. Her figures swell beyond jewelry proportions: faces...
If you ask me, a couples’ wedding rings should be their first major collaboration, assuming they don’t already have one....
When Carolyn Tyler left a fast-track advertising career and glamorous life in Santa Barbara to reinvent herself as a jewelry designer in Bali, she found her true home - in more ways than one.
She paved the way for the women who paved the way. They called her Mrs. Newman. Launching her career in...
I admit it. I’m obsessed with jewelry boxes. This is partly because my own jewelry is overflowing my current jewelry...
Do you have post-divorce wedding or engagement rings burning a hole in your jewelry box? Join the club. About 43...
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.
It’s every jeweler’s worst nightmare – and it happens all too often. Janine DeCresenzo and Megan Clark had their inventory...